It sucks paying into a system you are assured will be your golden parachute for your old age and find it it was just a ponzi scheme. I am retired and am living on my basic social security minimum because for most of my younger years as an artist I never had two nickels to rub together let alone invest in old age with. I have been really working when I quit the fantasy of being a world reknown photographer/designer/illustrator and just got a regular 9 to 5 job with benefits which I used to invest in. Luckily those investments have paid off really well and are still making money ( a few years ago i made more on one years investment than i earned working retail for two years!. A sad reminder f things in the real world. I count my blessings I never got married and had kids. I suffered in my youth robbing peter to pay paul and feeling like a failure to myself and my parents but at least now I am living fairly comfortably.
Climate change is very real but I do not think raising the taxes to regular folks and running a county into debt trying to abate the inevitable is the answer. Global climate has changed many times over to extremes long before we had plasitic and carbon emissions and yeah many animals on the verge of extinction but many many more are already extinct and have ben for hundreds of years....again long before man unkind discovered oil and plastic. Liberals in my country are hell bent on trying to head it off or fix it but despite their green new deals proposed to win election they haven't a clue as to the actual cost or futility of it all and ZERO SUM carbon emissions reality is their pipe dream and impossible in this universe. The science and economics they claim to go by are totally repudiating those fantasies no matter how much they scream an shout or throw more at the problem. We are told we have 10 to 12 years to fix the problem before it is too late.......yeah, and the sky is falling too......
How many industries has GB lost in the past couple of years? Industries that kept people working and earning have gone away or are going away. If they there is no work in a nation to give people a reason to rise in the morning and purpose to fulfill and dreams to work towards for themselves and their families what do we have? A disappointed depressed unemployed, dreamless and hopeless angry disillusioned people...whether that be in the UK or US. Our leaders just think raising taxes or and enlarging the size of government and expanding government run assistance is the answer. It is....the answer to their hopes and dreams but not ours. Never ours.
Sorry I have had a depressing day and the soap box was just laying there unused so I decided to climb up and reply.
Not sure what this all had to do with McDonalds and bees and bee hives and...........Well, I'll stop now.....shucks yaal got me wantin a Big Mac now!