Hey! I'm Upper Class!
/Liberal Conspiracy - Class war quiz
I've only just seen this bollocks, posted at LibCon a few days ago by "Guest" (BTW, why are people allowed to blog anonymously at LibCon in any case?. Example:
I've only just seen this bollocks, posted at LibCon a few days ago by "Guest" (BTW, why are people allowed to blog anonymously at LibCon in any case?. Example:
Fortunately Tim Worstall was on hand to bring a little perspective to the proceedings:Here’s the bottom-line: if your personal income is over £50K, you are not only one of the top 10% of earners in the UK, but you are quite comfortably one of the richest tenth of one percent of people who have ever been born. Anywhere, ever.
Here’s the bottom-line: if your personal income is over £50K, you are not only one of the top 10% of earners in the UK, but you are quite comfortably one of the richest tenth of one percent of people who have ever been born. Anywhere, ever.And if your income is £5,000 a year (just about the minimum that you can have given the benefits system) then you’re in the top 15% of all the people who have ever lived. Good thing this capitalism shtick, innit? We’re all vastly, humoungously, richer than those who do not live (or did not live) in a country that’s been using the system for a couple of hundred years.
