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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Author: Mark Mitchell

"Nice one Fred"

City bonuses represent a fundamental abuse and insult to the average citizen. How can people justify earning in one year what many of us could never earn in an entire lifetime? On top of these obscene payouts is the complete lack of accountability that means when an executive performs poorly they are usually given a healthy severance and usually they find another cushy position waiting for them after ruining lives sometimes on an unprecedented scale. This coupled with the fact that Bankers on the whole make money almost exclusively from exploiting the very poorest with outrageous interest rates and charges that push many people into a cycle of debt and effective slavery to the Banks  and its shareholders.

Suggestion  1

The New Scientist ran a fantastic article that restricted executive earnings related proportionately to the lowest paid members of staff. Whether this was x5, x10,  or x20 of the lowest wage this would still allow executives to earn what would be considered a very high wage without the obscene excesses that currently are available to fat cats. Of course I have simplified the idea here, but I think this kind of approach is fair. It would also be fair for legislation to be put in place to force companies to profit share to their employees limiting the obscene dividends paid out to company directors.

Suggestion 2

Cap interest rates for loans/credit cards and legislate to stop Banks constantly bombarding us with offers for loans and sending us endless credit card cheques that encourage people to become even more debt laden.


Suggestion 3

Sack them all, take away all their assets, and make them work in a Job Centre, any refusing to do this are slowly dropped into a vat consisting of all of their liquidised assets as cash which has been mulched into an appropriate pap that would eventually drown them.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Author: Mark Mitchell
Social Justice the only way.

"I think you'll find you have my money."

Whenever we hear in the news that another failed executive has just sacked half his workforce while paying himself an obscene bonus, or when we discover another politician embroiled in some kind of political corruption, we all spit with fury and, for a fleeting moment, we dream of storming parliament on PM’s question time with a Kalashnikov screaming “Die you motherfuckers”; hosing them all down, then setting off the 300 ton fertilizer bomb we planted under the foundations blowing all the fuckers and yourself sky high. This brief moment of nihilism, worthy of any fundamentalist’s praise, is a brief musing for most of us, sick of the continual lack of conscience within the elite in our society.

So I have decided to get together my little list of Social Injustice which represents many of the outrages that we all moan about but do very little to stop. Accompanying these I have a few suggestions and welcome anyone to add more suggestions or more cases of injustice that continue to annoy average Joes and fuel revolutionary dreams.