THE LAST DITCH
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The expenditure of your money on the BBC’s defence begins.
Money is nothing.
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Well done Mark, but the full quote is:
“You get your money for nothing and your chicks for free”
A rather apt quote for BBC “personalities”, and a good advert for MTV.
May we assume you are on the BBC privatisation bandwagon?
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I agree. In itself it is nothing. It has value only as an exchange token. In this case it represents the work of millions of licence-fee payers, taken by force. I am curious as to how you make your living, Mark. Would you care to share? And if your money is nothing to you, would you like my bank account details so you can transfer that embarrassing dross to me?
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Quite, with one proviso. It isn’t work which is being taken by force, it is the power to consume. Paying the QC to do something is only a problem if we believe he should be doing else. Taking money is a problem if we should be spending on something else.
As for work, I’d actually rather not go into the details (too depressing), but I basically work as a semi-skilled, private sector, service industry worker. A bit like a call centre technician. Or a prostitute.
I love money. I just don’t think it means very much (or shouldn’t) and should mean increasingly little as time advances..
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Yes..
Everything except BBC4.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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