[–] TelescopiumHerscheli ago (edited ago)
You think I'm vile. So what? Would you like me to add you to my list of people to message every time another one of my "conjectures" comes true. How about that "conjecture" about the ratings agencies? Guess what?
[–] oftotc ago
Yes, these please:
...The likely collapse over time will be in the range of 20-30%.
...we will lose at least 0.3% per annum in economic growth from this.
...the future poor man of Europe.
.... the ruination of this country.
And yes, you are vile. You have used your intellectual advantages to fuck over countless of your countrymen to gain financial advantages that cause measurable hurt to their lives. Those countrymen are willing to accept a little more pain in order to make sure the future of your country doesn't allow for people like you to fuck them over again. For certain, a weasel minded jerk like you will look for other avenues to regain control. Please update me on those efforts as well.
[–] TelescopiumHerscheli ago
Thank you for your response. I'll add you to my list.
I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that I have fucked over countless of my countrymen "to gain financial advantages that cause measurable hurt to their lives". I'm an academic economist, and we're not in a position to "gain financial advantage" over anyone, as a quick glance at my payslip would easily confirm. As for my fellow countrymen being willing to accept "a little more pain", I don't doubt it: presumably many of those who voted for Brexit thought that they would have to suffer a little financial pain in exchange for admission to some prelapsarian world in which people underqualified for success in the modern world would somehow be granted stable and comfortable jobs and lifestyles. The problem is that they were wrong.
One of the more entertaining things about your comment is that you seem to think I want the stupid and unhappy people who voted for Brexit to continue to have unhappy lives. I certainly don't, and never have done. To reiterate: the voters were told, over and over again, that voting for Brexit would make things worse for them, but they voted for it anyway.
I'll be completely honest with you: I'm not the sort of economist that knows exactly what has to be done to improve things in this country. Economics is a huge discipline, and no one economist knows all of it. Most of my work is very abstract, and is in a field of economics that is very far removed from the kinds of public and macro-economics that relate to the life-problems of the typical Brexit voter. However, like any other economist I've got the basic training and thought patterns to recognise roughly what needs to be done to make life better for "ordinary people" in this country. Yes, obviously I recognise that I'm not "ordinary" myself, but that doesn't mean that I want them to suffer. I'm angry because they've made a tragically bad decision despite being repeatedly warned by better-educated and better-informed people not to. Along the way they have fucked up not just their own lives, but mine, and millions upon millions of others. Although my own job isn't in the immediate firing line I had a phone call today from one of my former students who's now at JP Morgan in London: his job is certainly now on the line, and it won't be the only one. I certainly drive all my students very hard, but I have been lucky that they generally work very hard and have gone on to good jobs. Hard work, intensive study and a love of the subject have given my students, many of whom come from very humble backgrounds indeed, a ladder to comfortable, stable, healthy and happy lives for them and their families. Brexit will kick this ladder away for many of them before they've finished climbing it, and will permanently remove the ladder for many of my future students. I'm incandescently angry with Brexit voters, because they haven't just screwed their own lives, they've screwed the lives of everyone else too.
You think I'm "vile", but the really vile people in this calamity are the liars who told the stupid people in this country that they could have what any reasonable person could see was impossible, if only they would vote "Leave". I suppose the problem I had, and many other people had, before the referendum is that we did not realise just how stupid the stupid people in this country could be. It's horrific and heart-breaking.