Summary
Stephen Moore, a senior economic adviser to US president-elect Donald Trump, urged the UK to adopt the US “free enterprise” model over Europe’s “more socialist” system, suggesting it would enhance the Trump administration’s “willingness” to pursue a UK-US trade deal.
Moore also defended US agricultural practices and Trump’s proposed 10% blanket import tariff, noting possible exemptions for allies like the UK.
UK leaders, including Keir Starmer, face pressure to balance trade ties with both the EU and US, with figures like Peter Mandelson advocating dual trade agreements amid Brexit challenges.
The effects of wealth on people is a mental disorder. Like environmentally induced extreme onset psychopathy with delusions of grandeur and god complexes coupled with inability to ever form meaningful relations ever again. Cue paranoia and the loss of trust, y’know, the very foundation of everything - of every successful tribe, family, group, institute, business, society, civilization itself.
Wealth, in the face of austerity - inequality - is a cancer on the soul, for all parties involved.
I’m not yet convinced it’s wealth that is the corrupter. Wealth may be a compounding factor. I feel it’s more that power structures, regardless of how that power is measured, is the corrupter. Power attracts a certain kind of individual.
Perhaps the issue is that we are relinquishing it to the least deserving of us. Nonetheless, I’ve worked under weak bosses and I’m not sure the meek are the most deserving of it either. Assertive and Just authority is a rare breed, moreso because the rules of the game have been stacked against them.
I agree, which is why I think no position of leadership, of which there should be absolutely as few as necessary, should ever be given if openly sought. People should have to nominate leaders, with valid and confirmable stories from when the nominees sense of justice, wisdom, fairness, compassion were on display. With more merit given when the right thing to do was particularly egregious.
I’m not saying heroism is the threshold, moreso a sense of honor, equinimity and respect for the living. But if heroism were the threshold, i don’t see how it could make a society, in comparison to ours, worse.