Perhaps you’re assuming the rich care that much about services for ordinary people? Why would they? What they’ll care about will be access to premier, privatised services. When times get tougher they’d be looking after their own interests (like most people).DominicJ wrote:The first four are government.Consider who might be “priced out”:
- Hospitals
- Fire Services
- Police
- Councils (e.g. school buses, street cleaners etc)
- Little old ladies in tower blocks
- Low paid key workers
- Young unemployed
- Small business workers (UKs largest employment sector)
- Specific regions in Britain (as some regions – like the SE – will be able to afford the highest prices)
Governments dont get priced out by their own populace, they simply take what they need.
If the hospitals run out of fuel, you'll have been buying road fuel in jerry cans from the back of a lorry for months with foreign currency.
I believe we’re heading for a privatised minimal state. It’s what you get in a lot of the third world. This isn’t some wild-eyed dystopian vision of the future, it’s how things are in much of the world and spreading to the west sometime soon. The cosy, western liberal welfare state is an aberration in history.
You can see it in parts of the US and I'd argue it’s beginning to happen here; impoverished local administration, largely privatised fire service, police in some areas so broke they’re selling their cop cars and privatised hospitals where costs get passed on to the patients. Thatcher loved General Pinochet’s shock economic reforms and we now know from the wikileaks that every member of the Tory cabinet is one of Thatcher’s children. The will is there, it’s a question of opportunity.
