Excel modeller, juggler, geek, engineer, DIY nut. Woke=thoughtful, considerate and empathetic. All views are my own.

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  • Sales tax is the most obvious example of adding to the cost I’ve been shown, but it’s everything. Here if there is a price on something that is the price you pay. Period.
    If I have €5 and the price on the shelf is €4.90 we are all good, and I don’t even need to know what country I’m in!

    But is is more than that, if I take my car in to be fixed, they have to agree every cost they want to charge me in advance at no point can anything cost me more than I expected and agreed to up front.
    Airline tickets, theatre tickets, hospital bills, TV ads, you name it, the price they state or advertise is what I pay, no ifs-no buts.






  • There is nothing which inherently says an economy has to be environmentally bad, indeed there are many examples of economic success on the back of renewable power.

    I’d agree in too many cases an environmentally bad policy is persued with economic measures being given as a justification, but that is just bad policy.

    A good economy can invest green, a bad economy is a collection of of people just trying to make ends meet - the environment will never benefit from this, environmentally distructive options are usually cheaper than their greener alternatives.