That’s out of date. I’m going to work with UK currency and minimum wage, because that’s easier for me.
Bob Cratchit would be making about £16/hr in 2021. The current minimum wage is £11.44 (going up to £12.21 next year).
Tory? Labour? They are all miserly bastards.
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
“I see the NHS and an empty seat,” replied the Ghost, “and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these budgets remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
What is Carol doing this Christmas and why do people care?
Presumably learning some life lessons.
A liberal friend was arguing with her right wing cousin who said “that’s just your education talking.”
Really, the Mary Shelley? I mean, it’s a good way to put that, but…
France’s “left” and “right” labels filtered out to the rest of the world during the 1800s, but they weren’t common in English-speaking countries until the early 20th century.
Yeah, looks dubious.
So, it’s probably some kind of frankenquote?
I think it is fake, but Left Wing comes from the French Revolution, as it was where the republicans sat while the monarchists sat on the right.
Also, Mary Shelley’s father was an early anarchist.
I think you mean Frankenquote’s monster…
“No politics” rewards conservative ideologies. Anything left wing or progressive is seen as ‘political’ because it goes against the status quo, whereas the invisible politics of the status quo is taken for granted as a state of nature. Only conservatives can speak freely in that environment
See also: “polarization.” Protesting against creeping fascism is “polarizing” because the people stealing our rights and the commons pretend to be respectable.
In much the same way that it becomes a race issue when anyone talks about anything other than the default of white, or a gender issue when talking about anything other than the default of male.