Originally Posted by TBM

Nothing wrong with being rich. I certainly consider myself 'comfortable' compared to a great proportion of the UK. Even though I'm within the Basic Tax rate, I still earn more than 90% of the population.


Yes, there's a massive skew of wealth in the UK. 6th in terms of total GDP, but something like 26th in terms of GDP/head. There are an awful lot of people out there working for very low wages, and yet there are apparently a million or more vacancies. Seems to me that demand is greater than supply in the labour market currently, but employers don't seem prepared to increase wages to attract staff.


Tim H.
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