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Life styles of the rich and richer
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Wednesday October 19, 2005 22:34 by banker
If you live in south belfast, you might as well be living in a totally different country, to the rest of belfast. What makes south belfast different is its oppulence and wealth, with numerous upmarket trendy cafes, and posh supermarkets like sainsburys and m&s, to cater for the idle, stress free lifestyle of the insular rich. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Looking at south belfast we see that Queens University exerts a considerable influence over the area.
Queens attracts a load of gormless students, who have no idea about trade union rights in jobs etc
Queens students are responsible for forcing down the local wages and conditions in south belfast, by taking up jobs which in the past may have gone to permanent south belfast residents.
Instead employers in the service (of the rich) industries are able to take advantage of hooray henry students who are desperate for beer money, as mummy and daddy will be forking out for most of their other bills.
At the same time a whole service culture dedicated to pampering the rich, has sprung up out of a guillible privatised student workforce, again forcing down wages and conditions to exploit this transitory student labour at the expense of real wages and jobs for permanent working class south belfast residents.
Sounds like you're a little bit jealous there pal.
And their women are better lookin' too.
You sound green with jealousy, mate. Nothing wrong with those who can afford it getting a little bit better than the rest.
We aren't in Communist China, you know.
You can't blame others for being well off and enjoying it. Also you are completely stereotyping. The issue, and point you should be focusing on is the lack of investment and community development in the poorer areas of the city rather than launching a silly tirade against those who happen to be more affluent, whatever your opinion on them.
Sounds like a first year student absorbing loads of new left-leaning ideas and confusedly trying to formulate a persoanl philosophy - complicated by middle class guilt.