MetaphysicalMayhem t1_iws7m5b wrote
The UK will muddle through and be just fine in the end, I expect. Plenty of the world’s best and brightest still want to move there, and the UK has a substantial base of support. But I do think the combined effects of multiple, successive shocks, Covid and Brexit, will take a few years to work through. One of them seems like an own-goal, but what do I know.
An_Overt_Amalgam t1_iwsnnpu wrote
Why will the best and brightest want to move there, and why would world support persist? Because they have silly accents and cute phone booths? People put up with the worst aspects of living in the UK because there’s opportunity and a cosmopolitan outlook, and both of those are drying up as we speak.
MetaphysicalMayhem t1_iwsp7mn wrote
The Anglophone world tends to stick together.
MetaphysicalMayhem t1_ix24fur wrote
Well, I haven’t read any of the potentially responsive comments, but it’s true! The Anglophone world tends to stick together! And, as a result, there’s a floor—a backstop working perpendicularly (:) English has that word)—to any single member’s economy if things get really bad.
It’s true. Meaning, I’m certain that’s an accurate assessment of the state of the world of humans.
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