It is entirely obvious that free money is great — but what’s the cost of gaining that free money? That’s not as obviously contradictory as you might think either. Other than the extremely rare maniacs who really do throw cash money out the window, there’s always something that must be done to gain access to that money being “given” away.
Whatever it is that must be done then becomes that cost of that supposedly free money. Think of grandma ageing away with that pot of money to be passed on after her demise. It’s not going to be free to the children now, is it? There’s going to have to be a certain amount of calling now and then, turning up for Saturday tiffin as a cost of gaining that inheritance.
So it is with any other potential source of freebies.
Has Diane Abbott been doing some training of folk at HMRC – or are we simply seeing their talent for peremptory mendacity running around Soho ad agencies?
https://twitter.com/HMRCgovuk/status/1541460012668706819
“promoted”
Ah, but giving away that money means the politicians get to have their ass kissed, and they love to have their ass kissed.
Do they still do tiffin in Bangladesh?
Somewhere to relocate to perhaps. To watch the world go down with a nice cup of tea.
And cucumber sandwiches.
With the crusts neatly cut off.
So prices are capriciously fickle and arbitrary noise?
Yeah. People ARE capricious and arbitrary.
Whence cometh the money to be given away? Isn’t that the question?
If it comes off Ye Olde Magic Money Tree, it is entirely value-less, so isn’t the cost to producers who must accept this value-less money in exchange for their value-full produce, thereby transferring wealth from them to people with the money?