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> I wonder what panacea you see out there that’s less authoritarian and where you could keep your “high earner” social status.

Throw a dart on a world map and chances are you'll land somewhere suitable. Any other first world country would be better for example.

> It’s a shame that Britain gave one of its “high earner” jobs to someone who’d enjoy seeing it collapse.

Britain didn't give me anything. They were unable to supply qualified individuals for a role that requires them, so they had to import a skilled worker on a visa that makes me ineligible to any public money, forces me to leave the country within 2 months should I lose my job, yet forces me to give the equivalent of 5 minimum wages of salary to taxes all the while having no benefits compared to said minimum wage workers and "enjoying" the same public services, such as a one year waiting list for a procedure that I got done for free in a day in the country where I used to live.

I also didn't say I would enjoy to see it collapse, I said that the solution to push back against those authoritarian measures, and other anti-middle-class policies is to vote with the only vote we are given: our wallet.




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