Well that obviously makes it totally reasonable to charge $10 for a cash withdrawal

Post #443,824 by pwhysall 1/3/24 1:37:03 AM 1/3/24 1:39:16 AM Reply	Well that obviously makes it totally reasonable to charge $10 for a cash withdrawal Yes, the UK is small, but everything you’ve said doesn’t have anything to do with geographical scale. We have online-only banks. We have banks with huge physical high-street presence. But the bottom line is if you’ve got a current account, you can withdraw cash for free at pretty much any ATM that isn’t in the back of a corner shop. Getting charged money just to get hold of your own money? Pfffffft. ETA: Also we have a requirement that banks offer a free, “basic” bank account with no charges (and no features, either, but eh) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fee-free-basic-bank-accounts-benefit-over-41-million-customers Edited by pwhysall Jan. 3, 2024, 01:39:16 AM EST Expand All History
Post #443,831 by crazy 1/3/24 4:57:14 PM 1/3/24 4:57:14 PM Reply	Mommy mommy, they're being mean to me Yes, the mommy state is often beneficial to a significant portion of the population. And for the percentage that is annoyed by it, screw them. We have a different country. Yes, our health care sucks. It's worth it. To some. The cornerstone of our society is some get more than others. Some get it by working for it and some get it by inheriting it. How much do you pay for your queen each year? How much do you suffer due to your surveillance society? I'm not sure which one is better. But I've spent enough of my life paying for the other side that even when I'm on the poor side, I appreciate it. It's not just that you're 1/47th. You have a dramatically different starting point of goals and end results. I'm not saying we're perfect but we are dramatically different. And that difference shows up in a shitload of ways. This is one of them. Our land mass is divided by 50 states and each of those states has a specific attitude of what's appropriate for their citizens. You don't like it? Move to a different state. I did.
Post #443,834 by drook 1/3/24 5:27:16 PM 1/10/24 11:53:16 PM Reply	"Some" is doing yeoman's work there "Some get it by working for it and some get it by inheriting it." By just about any metric you choose financial inequality in the US is worse than it's been since the Depression - and many measures are worse than then. It's worse than nearly anywhere else in the developed world, and it's getting worse each year. Is that really the cornerstone? If it is, it shouldn't be. A statistically insignificant portion of total wealth comes from "working for it". -- Drew Edited by drook Jan. 10, 2024, 11:53:16 PM EST Expand All History
Post #443,837 by crazy 1/3/24 5:51:32 PM 1/3/24 5:51:32 PM Reply	Yeah, I'm one of them I thought I was totally f*****. I lived my life and earned my way but then I got arrested and was incredibly poor. I doubt you understand how poor I was. But then I got an inheritance. It took 40 years. It allowed me to buy my house. It allowed me to be in a position that I don't have to worry anymore. I still have to worry a little bit, my Airbnb better pay for the expenses but I'm not starving anymore. So I'm one of the lucky few. Thank you Dad. It took 40 years after his death. Before I got that money I had to earn my way and pay my taxes and support everybody else in the process. So I have the perspective of being grateful that my dad was smarter than me. Or at least lived his life according to the rules and left a bit for me. Is it wrong? Should my dad's legacy been split across other people and kept me looking for a cardboard box under a bridge? I don't know. I know I benefited from it and I'm happy for it.
Post #443,846 by CRConrad 1/4/24 4:52:52 AM 1/4/24 4:52:52 AM Reply	Except you didn't. Before I got that money I had to earn my way and pay my taxes and support everybody else in the process. Your taxes are far too low to "support everybody else in the process". That's a major part of the whole problem. Another part is of course that others' (your corporate overlords') taxes are even more far too low, and that's an even more major part of the problem. But that doesn't invalidate the fact that your -- yes, you, personally -- taxes are (and were, for all those years) also, in all probability, far too low to come anywhere near your claim to "support everybody else". -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi

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