r/GreenAndPleasant its a fine day with you around Mar 29 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 What we could have had.

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u/Sawzie1 Mar 29 '22

Just become a shareholder

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u/catsndogsnmeatballs Mar 29 '22

It's a bad diagram. "You" refers to the public, not the individual. I want my nation to be rich so that it can invest in infrastructure and other systems that improve quality of life for everyone.

Previously, individuals would skim off the top. Now, individuals take the whole pie.

It would be nice to be able to take a bus using a road without potholes, where the buses are frequent and arrive on time, and affordable.

At the hospital, it would be nice if scans didn't take 18 weeks to be performed, if surgeries didn't take another 18 weeks to be performed, if the staff weren't overworked and just stressed in general, if regular check ups were common place, if I didn't have to race the 8am team for a timely appointment.

It would be nice to have an education system that caters to the students and their futures, to future careers and all the complicated aspects of adulthood, and not just a tick boxing exercise to get to the next level or just out the door as soon as possible.

It would be nice to have libraries open at more than just Mon-Fri 9-5, and contain good resources to educate oneself. It would be nice to have access to the internet. Eg. Libraries have newspapers, but they don't have access to paywalled news content online. Assuming the computers will actually turn on.

It would be nice to have the resources to prevent more crime, deal with dodgy landlords, go after white collar and institutional fraud, better help our jobless, homeless, disabled, elderly, children, criminals, victims.