Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂOct 29, 2024

I know going car-free is good for the environment, good for the city, good for my pocket, good for many reasons but probably the one factor that will finally drive me (no pun) to going car-free is the awfulness of the annual insurance shopping around horror.

I have literally spent all day. The highlight was eventually clicking ‘buy’, their system failed and I had to do it all by phone from the beginning: ‘we need to ask the following questions……’

ARRRGHHH

Show threadKevinOnEarthOct 30, 2024
@baoigheallain
"#Insurance" is just yet another of those #MoneyShifting so-called "services" in Western economies that actually produce *Nothing* but are only there to suck up the incomes of those that do. Most Western GDP($£€) is now heavily filled with some kind of financial "services" while actual production slides down the GDP($£€) pole.
#Capital #Investment, #Insurance, #FinancialServices, #Gambling, #Advertising + a few others, actual tangible GDP*: zero.
(*P as in "Product", not $£€.)
Show threadKevinOnEarthOct 30, 2024
@baoigheallain
UK GDP($£€) share including Construction, Manufacture & Agriculture is now <17%, and falling every year.
Show threadKevinOnEarth
@baoigheallain
The intangible economy is a house of cards, but they have the lobbying (i.e. bribery) power to have govt legislation passed that teases & obliges everyone to subscribe to this growing #MoneyShifting deviance to their advantage.
We just get used to it & don't notice it growing, as we are the proverbial frog in the pot.
Oct 30, 2024 at 5:07pmWeb