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“My Facebook friends have wonderful lives, and I am glad for them. They have the best boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife (“yeah, be jealous”, demands one young lady about the man in her life). Their sons and daughters win academic and sports awards and are the most thoughtful people on the planet. They enjoy relaxing/exciting/exotic vacations. They build huge …
In the debate about inequality and the hollowing out of the middle class there has been little reference to the gradual decline in quality of goods and services. The very rich can look after themselves and in any case have a large range of manufacturers and suppliers devoted to themselves. But for the rest of …
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Letter to The Independent A company kept afloat by paying the minimum wage is either making an unjustifiable profit or is commercially unviable. It should not expect parents, guardians or grandparents to augment the company’s wage bill. (R.J. Rickard, Edinburgh). Low wages paid by hamburger and pizza suppliers (and similar) mean that the taxpayer has …
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way. Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936), an Austrian journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. When I was young I yearned for a slim, beautiful girlfriend, without success. My mother, rather beautiful herself, told me to forget it. “Everything” she …
The British Cohort Study, conducted by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from two UK studies from 1958 (4,267 men and 4,537 women) and 1970 (3,412 men and 3,658 women), assessing intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asking political questions at the age of 33. The study claims that there …
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