16 June

What’s caused the ‘cost of living crisis’? What’s not well understood is that our lifestyles have ALWAYS been expensive. Western lifestyles are the most expensive lifestyles in human history, they’re ruinously expensive in terms of resources. So why a sudden crisis? Because those costs were privatised. Decades of privatising costs that previously our government paid for us. Now we pay the costs for housing, health, education, energy, water, roads, etc. etc. Costs that used to be heavily subsidised by the governments we set up, to make things cheaper through economies of scale.