A better analogy would be living in a nice comfortable house, which is much better than nearly all other houses - but then someone spots a problem with the chimney and starts comparing it to other houses’ chimneys, some of which have better chimneys, some of which have better chimneys but a worse overall house, and some of which are fantasy chimneys that could theoretically exist if only we all spent a bit more time thinking about chimneys. And in amongst all this chimney woe, the fundamental qualities of the house and the fundamental privilege of having such a house go forgotten.
Not quite. A substantial number of people in the UK live in poverty - between 20 and 25% [0].
This has been made worse by terrible political decisions, such as Brexit [0]. Specifically, austerity and political decisions (not limited to corruption) is linked to 130,000 preventable deaths [1]. Those same "budget cuts" for austerity exist while money is sent to "consultants" to "help fix things".
Not everyone in the UK has it well. The government, quite frankly, is fairly shit. And corrupt.
Thanks for the great example. The poverty chimney needs to be considered in conjunction with the security doors and the air quality windows and the human rights carpets and the unemployment basement and the healthcare bathroom and so on... before deciding on the house’s value.
