top | item 35128831 (no title) krysp | 3 years ago Well known anecdotally perhaps, but this is the first time I've seen a major publication link the two issues (possibly I don't read enough of the news). Hopefully we see more like this. discuss order hn newest TheOtherHobbes|3 years ago Some of the media coverage:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000...https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/austerity-thousand...Some of the research:https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21490/1/‘Dead%20peop...https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e046417There's a mountain of evidence that the policies were democidally harmful and economically counterproductive.Although they did increase financial inequality - which some people seem to consider a good thing rather than a bad one. ZeroGravitas|3 years ago Financial Times called it out recently too, in surprisingly clear terms:https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073> Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events> It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks captaincaveman|3 years ago Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?
TheOtherHobbes|3 years ago Some of the media coverage:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000...https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/austerity-thousand...Some of the research:https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21490/1/‘Dead%20peop...https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e046417There's a mountain of evidence that the policies were democidally harmful and economically counterproductive.Although they did increase financial inequality - which some people seem to consider a good thing rather than a bad one.
ZeroGravitas|3 years ago Financial Times called it out recently too, in surprisingly clear terms:https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073> Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events> It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks captaincaveman|3 years ago Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?
captaincaveman|3 years ago Assuming this is true, wasn't it the bailing out of the banks a major factor in the need for austerity?
TheOtherHobbes|3 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/austerity-thousand...
Some of the research:
https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21490/1/‘Dead%20peop...
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e046417
There's a mountain of evidence that the policies were democidally harmful and economically counterproductive.
Although they did increase financial inequality - which some people seem to consider a good thing rather than a bad one.
ZeroGravitas|3 years ago
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073
> Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events
> It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks
captaincaveman|3 years ago