Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial city but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay out and children grow up below the poverty line.
  • lemmyseizethemeans
    221·
    3 months ago

    Looks like it’s time for some Public/Private partnerships! Really just let the free market handle it. Selling off public utilities will just be more efficient. Because no big beauracravic overhead and no it’s not disaster capitalism it’s opportunity capitalism look at how great Argentina is now

    • DamarcusArt
      8·
      3 months ago

      Clearly the problem is that they tax the rich too much, if they just let the job creators create more jobs, they could create light-keeping-on jobs and the problem will solve itself.

      • lemmyseizethemeans
        7·
        3 months ago

        Exactly. In fact if they just privatize the entire city, eliminate all taxes and switch from the pound to Bitcoin it would be a paradise for investors and business owners alike! Win win!

    • Anarcho-BolshevikEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      No, it’s socialism. Everything bad under capitalism is actually socialism.

              • Anarcho-BolshevikEnglish
                3·
                3 months ago

                Oh yeah, back in the ’90s hundreds of Soviets queued up because they were excited to try some Yankee fast‐food for the first time. It made sense if you saw it from their perspective, but as somebody stuck in Imperial America I don’t see the appeal. It’s just some mediocre, overpriced fast‐food that keeps you full for maybe about an hour or two if it doesn’t act like a laxative before then.

                • DamarcusArt
                  4·
                  3 months ago

                  This photo really represents the end of an era, it’s just such a perfect representation of what capitalism promised them, vs what it actually delivered them.

  • DankZedong A
    16·
    3 months ago

    We have that too in Antwerp. Came home from a party that other day to find my entire neighborhood pitch black. Couldn’t see a thing and I was lucky to have my phone with a flashlights. Can’t imagine how women must feel like.

    It was a Saturday night as well. As in, peak going out time in the city.

  • الأرض ستبقى عربية
    12·
    3 months ago

    The problem with imperialism and colonialism is that colonized people eventually break free. The British Empire squandered its ill gotten wealth with nothing to show for it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      6·
      3 months ago

      Indeed, eventually the cost of maintaining the empire exceeds the plunder you get from it and at that point the core becomes rapidly hollowed out.