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Dec 24, 2022·edited Dec 24, 2022

The Conservative party accuses workers of "holding the country to ransom" when they go on strike yet immediately jump to attention for banks and corporations when they threaten to up sticks and move to another country. They even do this after said banks have received hundreds of billions in tax payer bailouts and QE and been found to have been involved in massive financial crimes.

The hypocrisy is nauseating.

And it confirms the point Taleb makes about skin in the game and responsibility / accountablity. The Tories have been in power for 12 years and what have they really done? Ensured that the City spivs got away with the biggest financial crisis in 80 years; failed to hold innumerable Labour councils to account for their massive child abuse scandals; allow the NHS to get away with catastrophic failing after catastrophic failing; permit serious criminals to wreck peoples lives on a daily basis.

You're just taking the mick with all these earnest words.

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