Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
yakko@feddit.uk 5 days agoThe trends and forces would have been no different, but it was a choice between a collapse of empire versus a soft landing a la UK. They chose collapse.
Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
yakko@feddit.uk 5 days agoThe trends and forces would have been no different, but it was a choice between a collapse of empire versus a soft landing a la UK. They chose collapse.
hark@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I would not describe the state of the UK as a “soft landing”.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Near best minimum wage on earth, free healthcare and a moat to keep the French out? Could be worse.
yakko@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Not my tempo. I was talking about the loss of a global empire. Many have called the UK’s a “soft landing”, but even the hardest collapses so far will have been a different level of scale from what America is cooking up for itself.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The state of the UK is fine?
Free healthcare, relatively low food prices, growing wages, one of the highest minimum wages on Earth, low income taxes, decent workers rights, low levels of violent crime.
There’s some not great things, like house prices, but as I understand it, that’s an issue in most of the developed world.