I admire your optimism, but I foresee nothing but misery as the fallout from this. The economic consequences are going to take years to rinse through, and there will be wholesale hardship for millions..
I - and the vast majority, I'd suspect - don't want to be forced to stop taking 'cheap overseas holidays'. I don't want people to face massive upheaval and be put into a position of having to rely on others. I don't want the additional burden of having others rely on me.
I'm also 100% sure that there will be no utopian 'repositioning' of economic fortunes. Avaricious millionaires won't suddenly develop a sense of philanthropic benevolence and stop seeking loopholes to cheat their way out of paying 40% tax on all their income (above the higher rate threshold). The tax havens of the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies won't suddenly draw back the curtains on the secretive world of wealth- and asset-hiding and tax dodging. Banksters won't suddenly cut borrowers some slack and write-off interest and forced missed payments, let alone forgive debt wholesale (despite the taxpayer previously stopping their whole stinking, greedy & corrupt system from collapsing).
And no government will dare upset the corporate-capitalism applecart. Or should that be gravy train?
So yes, on a local and individual level, there will be countless heroes who help other people and try to keep society functioning - and we'll all be encouraged to celebrate these people by 'the powers that be' to give a veneer of cheer in order to distract us from looking at the obvious villains and crooks who'll be safely ensconced in their ivory towers.
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow