[HN Gopher] Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done
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       Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done
        
       Author : belltaco
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-01-18 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | The Brexit vote also helped some politicians wake up to the
       | damage they did in regards to better understanding 'winners and
       | losers in globalization'
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       | Maybe it wasn't the best idea to offload environmental damage to
       | China while gutting the middle class in your own country
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       | Yes, in total the country is 'richer' after doing this, but most
       | all of those gains went to the 1%; 99% suffered to prop up the
       | ultra wealthy.
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       | If policy makers don't figure out how to fix the
       | productivity/wage divergence (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/) we
       | will only see more populist rage.
        
       | ineedasername wrote:
       | Well, there's a few groups: There's the true believers, and some
       | of them are the ones waking up.
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       | On the other end are the disaster capitalists who anticipated the
       | chaos and planned on profiting from it.
        
       | brnt wrote:
       | How come Brits let their politicians convince them to not see the
       | blaringly obvious coming?
        
         | nigelFarage wrote:
         | We saw Trump coming why didn't you?
        
         | Veen wrote:
         | They didn't. No one expected Brexit to be frictionless or
         | without negative consequences. They just thought the price was
         | worth paying.
        
       | followthesmell wrote:
       | Very few decisions don't have some undesirable consequences.
        
       | nigelFarage wrote:
       | yeah - the guardian remainer newspaper- lets put some non-stories
       | together for a lost cause. Toynbee you lost get over it
        
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