How do we make the working class/middle class happy.

[alexw]

Stop pouring billions into welfare and social programs that promote a lazy society paid for by the hard-working middle-class.

Invest those savings into jobs and other services such as NHS, Education, etc...

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Profit

I'm afraid to break it to you but 60% of all UK welfare spending goes on the retired. Only 40% goes on those of working age and most of that is to top up the incomes of those in work in one way or another. Very very little goes to the long term unemployed or similar.

In large part the current issues facing the UK derive from the fact that the UK keeps throwing ever more money at the old (inflating asset values, ever increasing health care spending, inflating welfare spending on the old) while leaving the rest of society to rot. A country doesn't become rich or stay rich by continually throwing more largess at the old who consume but don't produce, and by pandering to this groups interests. It kills economic growth, kills innovation, kills productivity growth, and causes economic stagnation such as the UK is seeing. Gerontocracies never thrive.

[Lord Berserker]

But rum and coke is top tier, of course i don't expect britbongs to have decent taste when it comes to alcohol, but damn.

Says the Norwegian. Most of your alcohols are potatoes

[Strangebrew]

Says the Norwegian. Most of your alcohols are potatoes

What can i say, we got potatoes in our blood, plus mayo, and cod.

[Lord Berserker]

What can i say, we got potatoes in our blood, plus mayo, and cod.

I am 100% sure there is a Norwegian Alchohol composed of those things.

Potatoes, Blood, Mayo and Cod.

[MdAlmighty]

Your title ask how to make them happy, but your post talks about money and globalisation. That's not the same thing.

To make the middle class happy, introduce a bit of socialism and welfare. All of the top 10 happiest countries in the world has universal health care. With free healthcare and education, you don't have to worry about it ever, because you have already payed for it when you pay your taxes. Unlike in the US where many middle class people have to worry if their insurance will cover everything, and they have to save up a lot of money for education. There's many factors involved, but this is one of the biggest ones for making the middle class happy.

[Strangebrew]

I am 100% sure there is a Norwegian Alchohol composed of those things.

Potatoes, Blood, Mayo and Cod.

And tacos on fridays, can't forget #1 staple in Norwegian culture and traditions. Taco fridays.

[Lord Berserker]

And tacos on fridays, can't forget #1 staple in Norwegian culture and traditions. Taco fridays.

I can never eat hard shell tacos, I always get too excited and break the shell.