On Monday, 18 December 2017 08:49:25 UTC+1, Chris.B wrote:

Of course they can all move to where the jobs are plentiful...

Let's copy 1461's serial ramblings and expand the theme:

"Moving" assumes that one can sell one's home.
Preferably with a nice little profit to show how much effort and expense went into improving it.

What happens when houses sit unsold for years?
House sales drive modernization and provide a constant demand for local services.
Just like science, economics is tightly bound to all other intricately connected factors.

When the psychopaths in "THE MARKETS" engineer a bank crash, **** flies literally everywhere.
Suddenly you can't sell your home on the other side of the world!
So you have no need of a new lawnmower, plumber or painter.
If their services aren't needed then nor are the local shops and services to which EVERYONE else is intimately connected.
Even if they never shopped there, their wives or hairdressers or barman once did.

When the paint has faded on all the For Sale signs homes end up on forced auctions.
The owner couldn't just walk away because the banks have pretended to lend them the full cost of their home.
When a house sits for a while on the market it quickly starts looking shabby.
A vicious circle sets in where total gridlock is the norm.
Run down properties produce run down areas.
Now nobody can sell because of the several eyesores next door and the next.

Now somebody thinks they can win the lottery by buying up all the unsold properties dirt cheap[ly] at auction.
Sadly that leaves no funds for improvements.
So they do most of the work [badly] themselves and spend literally years making an awful mess inside and out.
So yet again all the now unemployed, local trades-persons gain nothing from the house sales at auction.

Each small economic unit must closely match all the others or there is chaos.
You psychopathic friends offering high frequency, worthless promises have ruined the lives of countless billions around the globe.
But walked away Scot free.
The empty homes may eventually be rented out to the "lower classes" or the detested unemployed you so despise.
If you lose YOUR job then god help you if you want to sell your own home!

Psychopaths are not normally complete fools.
They always rig their evil system in their own favour.
They call on loyalty, nationalism, race, class and religion to enjoy the fruits of their vile scams.
Because they have no morals, they have no need of loyalty to anyone but themselves.
They can always find fall guys, or hit men, just like you, to carry out their nefarious activities.
They can always afford the best defense team and the best lobbyists themselves.
You will be discarded with all the back stabbing, knife wielding skills of a mafia boss, dictator or fund manager.

All this has nothing to do with politics.
It has EVERYTHING to do with morals.
Or rather, the complete lack of them.

Now go and check in the mirror.
Can you see your own reflection?
Or that of a psychopathic, populist hero?