To the extent that pay is only relevant if it can meet costs then yes we do have low-pay jobs. But that risks everything becoming a version of this

Blue Labour might even have some useful things to add to the discussion if they did some actual *thinking* instead of being a intellectual laundering scheme for Facebook nostalgia memes

Possibly this very simple explanation never occurred to me because I would never dream of spending any gains from my index funds, in the same way I will never use any of the 170 potions I'm carrying around in Baldur's Gate

I'll be honest and say I don't really understand why Brits saving more in US tech stocks is meant to boost UK growth

Going by preponderance of adverts alone our era is defined by AI and gambling, which is going to look great to future historians

"how would the US react if Cuba was threatening to join a hostile alliance" is meant to be a gotcha on Ukraine that actually just gives the game away on what people believe about sovereignty

Means of production is too broad to define an individual life but obviously does define the historical movement of groups (this seems to me to be the heart of dialectics)

The jump immediately from "Britain's self mythologising is incorrect" to "Britain must have some uniquely malign role to play in world affairs" is fascinating, like its impossible for the UK to be just another country where some stuff happened that doesn't really prove anyone's point about anything

The overcorrection is usually because people desperately want history to have a moral to it. You get it a lot with slavery, like people will tell you about the Arab slave trade as if teaching the British slave trade was only there to make some point about Britain being Good or Bad

It seems ill-advised for a nation that has rebellion against a Greek empire as one of its founding myths to adopt Greek imperialism as a model