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Post by ratcliff on Jul 21, 2024 12:31:51 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges . It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all. I also live in a tiny village , all the surrounding small towns charge for parking by the hour - it's easier to go to one of the shopping malls/retailparks a similar distance - free parking |
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Post by bancroft on Jul 21, 2024 13:14:44 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges . It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all. I also live in a tiny village , all the surrounding small towns charge for parking by the hour - it's easier to go to one of the shopping malls/retailparks a similar distance - free parking I'm similar malls with car parks or the bus for the odd occasion I go local as don't use the Ringo app. |
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Post by Orac on Jul 22, 2024 7:58:16 GMT
Surely we have planning departments?
Is anyone in these departments asking why there needs to be 18 Turkish barbers all operating within the same 100 yd circle?
I doubt it
Many of our high streets are train wrecks and much of the source is corruption and criminality in government
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 22, 2024 8:02:45 GMT
A Free market has no Rules. Free Market economies are populated by companies whose prime goal is to make profit. The best way to maximise profit is to have a product that you sell to the most peope possible. There are two ways to achieve that: 1) Spend time and money developing a superior product and couple that with top notch customer service. 2) Be the ONLY seller of any given product. 1) Cost lots of money, constantly as the competition constantly strives to catch up to you. 2) Costs lots of money, once. The reason that so much regulation is there to prevent monopolies is precisely because the natural tendency of profit driven trade is to create monopolies. Companies maximise profit for the least effort by ensuring they have no competition. All The Best A market without rules is called anarchy. Anarchy is not a self-optimising system and often involves shops being burnt to the ground. |
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Post by ProVeritas on Jul 22, 2024 8:40:44 GMT
A Free market has no Rules. Free Market economies are populated by companies whose prime goal is to make profit. The best way to maximise profit is to have a product that you sell to the most peope possible. There are two ways to achieve that: 1) Spend time and money developing a superior product and couple that with top notch customer service. 2) Be the ONLY seller of any given product. 1) Cost lots of money, constantly as the competition constantly strives to catch up to you. 2) Costs lots of money, once. The reason that so much regulation is there to prevent monopolies is precisely because the natural tendency of profit driven trade is to create monopolies. Companies maximise profit for the least effort by ensuring they have no competition. All The Best . Anarchy is not a self-optimising system and often involves shops being burnt to the ground. Well, at least you are finally starting to grasp the basics. What happens in most anarchies? Might Makes Right. In business terms Might means destroying / absorbing the competition. All The Best |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 22, 2024 8:47:32 GMT
A market without rules is called anarchy. Anarchy is not a self-optimising system and often involves shops being burnt to the ground. Well, at least you are finally starting to grasp the basics. What happens in most anarchies? Might Makes Right. In business terms Might means destroying / absorbing the competition. All The Best You will not understand anything with such vague statements. I've explained the mechanisms to you and hope you have learnt something. Economics is a subject I have studied, so I do have some expertise. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 22, 2024 9:18:17 GMT
I live in a village surrounded by small market towns . The council has come up with the great idea of parking charges . It’s idiotic . The towns need as much footfall as they can get but they are led by unimaginative dullards looking for easy fixes that arent fixes at all. I also live in a tiny village , all the surrounding small towns charge for parking by the hour - it's easier to go to one of the shopping malls/retailparks a similar distance - free parking When I first started driving in the 80s we had two high streets to chose from, one 1/2 mile and the other about 3/4 mile. We had large car parks, but they were rarely that populated and were about 10p to park. Even though one never worried about spending 10p as loose change, it was easier to park right outside the shop you were going to. On a good day you could normally park within a few car lengths of the shop you were visiting. On a bad day you may have to park a few hundred yards away. If all the spaces outside the shops were taken you could park in a side road. All this parking was free. Now many years later I take a walk in the same area and notice the large houses down the road leading to the high street are often flats today. It's even more prevalent in London where a large house would house one family, but now it has six wheelie bins outside it and six door bells. You see the problem? The country has become massively poorer. We are still served by the same high street but the traffic is far greater. Also with flats they don't have gardens and garages with driveways. |
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Post by Orac on Jul 22, 2024 9:27:17 GMT
I also live in a tiny village , all the surrounding small towns charge for parking by the hour - it's easier to go to one of the shopping malls/retailparks a similar distance - free parking When I first started driving in the 80s we had two high streets to chose from, one 1/2 mile and the other about 3/4 mile. We had large car parks, but they were rarely that populated and were about 10p to park. Even though one never worried about spending 10p as loose change, it was easier to park right outside the shop you were going to. On a good day you could normally park within a few car lengths of the shop you were visiting. On a bad day you may have to park a few hundred yards away. If all the spaces outside the shops were taken you could park in a side road. All this parking was free. Now many years later I take a walk in the same area and notice the large houses down the road leading to the high street are often flats today. It's even more prevalent in London where a large house would house one family, but now it has six wheelie bins outside it and six door bells. You see the problem? The country has become massively poorer. We are still served by the same high street but the traffic is far greater. Also with flats they don't have gardens and garages with driveways. Notably - the over-crowding costs hit certain people hard, but not others. If you have a high paying job in the BBC's diversity and inclusion advisory quango, everything looks fine. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 22, 2024 9:48:19 GMT
When I first started driving in the 80s we had two high streets to chose from, one 1/2 mile and the other about 3/4 mile. We had large car parks, but they were rarely that populated and were about 10p to park. Even though one never worried about spending 10p as loose change, it was easier to park right outside the shop you were going to. On a good day you could normally park within a few car lengths of the shop you were visiting. On a bad day you may have to park a few hundred yards away. If all the spaces outside the shops were taken you could park in a side road. All this parking was free. Now many years later I take a walk in the same area and notice the large houses down the road leading to the high street are often flats today. It's even more prevalent in London where a large house would house one family, but now it has six wheelie bins outside it and six door bells. You see the problem? The country has become massively poorer. We are still served by the same high street but the traffic is far greater. Also with flats they don't have gardens and garages with driveways. Notably - the over-crowding costs hit certain people hard, but not others. If you have a high paying job in the BBC's diversity and inclusion advisory quango, everything looks fine. It's a kind of tax fraud that one. Crime does pay these days. They take the tax for one reason, then it gets embezzled.
Those who lived in these big houses were those who had achieved things in their life. Roy Castle was one chap who owned a large house in my area. I think with him you could say he earnt it. He had reached the top of his profession. Others were retired industrialists or families of former industrialists. It makes a big difference to your wealth if you actually own the firm, rather than just work for a firms which is foreign-owned, as are most of the firms in this country now, or where no one owns it and it is traded on the stock market. The amount of house you get per year of work is far less now than when the houses were built, which was at the beginning of the 20c. In the 1980s there were very few flats. Most of the flats were just the upstairs of shops.
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 22, 2024 10:01:45 GMT
Is anyone in these departments asking why there needs to be 18 Turkish barbers all operating within the same 100 yd circle? Money laundering, probably drug money. Just like the car washes, nail bars and massage parlours. But then who cares? HMRC collects taxes and the local council collects rates. And the dirty money filters back into the system. |
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Post by Orac on Jul 22, 2024 10:32:36 GMT
Is anyone in these departments asking why there needs to be 18 Turkish barbers all operating within the same 100 yd circle? Money laundering, probably drug money. Just like the car washes, nail bars and massage parlours. But then who cares? HMRC collects taxes and the local council collects rates. And the dirty money filters back into the system. Yes. The British public get their high streets turned into unappealing wastelands and their legitimate businesses pushed aside by criminal enterprises with links to government |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 22, 2024 10:40:43 GMT
Money laundering, probably drug money. Just like the car washes, nail bars and massage parlours. But then who cares? HMRC collects taxes and the local council collects rates. And the dirty money filters back into the system. Yes. The British public get their high streets turned into unappealing wastelands and their legitimate businesses pushed aside by criminal enterprises with links to government Yes but the public stopped using the high streets in favour of Internet shopping. And who can blame them? More choice, lower prices and delivered to your door. It's been decades since the high streets offered anything that I want. Without the money launderers the high streets would be empty and boarded up. |
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Post by Orac on Jul 22, 2024 10:45:55 GMT
Yes. The British public get their high streets turned into unappealing wastelands and their legitimate businesses pushed aside by criminal enterprises with links to government Yes but the public stopped using the high streets in favour of Internet shopping. And who can blame them? More choice, lower prices and delivered to your door. It's been decades since the high streets offered anything that I want. Without the money launderers the high streets would be empty and boarded up. I'm not so sure. I think, if you cleared out the money launderers and the people traffickers, many high streets might stop being effective no go areas and migrant camping parks and people might venture in just to hang about and socialise-shop. I think people are starting to notice their is a giant hole where we used to have communities. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Jul 22, 2024 11:04:17 GMT
Yes but the public stopped using the high streets in favour of Internet shopping. And who can blame them? More choice, lower prices and delivered to your door. It's been decades since the high streets offered anything that I want. Without the money launderers the high streets would be empty and boarded up. I'm not so sure. I think, if you cleared out the money launderers and the people traffickers, many high streets might stop being effective no go areas and migrant camping parks and people might venture in just to hang about and socialise-shop. I think people are starting to notice their is a giant hole where we used to have communities. Nope. The high streets died long before that. The current incumbents simply stepped in to fill some of the gaps. In the 1980s our local council granted permission for an American style mini-mall. Even back then, prior to the Internet, it failed to fill more than two thirds if its units. Then ten years later the stupid council granted permission for another. That was never more than half full. And now with the death of high street staples like Debenhams, BHS, Burton, Dixon, high Street travel agents etc. They are ghost malls. Nah, the high Street died years ago because our shopping habits changed. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jul 22, 2024 11:59:48 GMT
I'm not so sure. I think, if you cleared out the money launderers and the people traffickers, many high streets might stop being effective no go areas and migrant camping parks and people might venture in just to hang about and socialise-shop. I think people are starting to notice their is a giant hole where we used to have communities. Nope. The high streets died long before that. The current incumbents simply stepped in to fill some of the gaps. In the 1980s our local council granted permission for an American style mini-mall. Even back then, prior to the Internet, it failed to fill more than two thirds if its units. Then ten years later the stupid council granted permission for another. That was never more than half full. And now with the death of high street staples like Debenhams, BHS, Burton, Dixon, high Street travel agents etc. They are ghost malls. Nah, the high Street died years ago because our shopping habits changed. The habit is to not go out unless you are working, and to spend most of the rest of your life glued to a screen in some dingy flat. Indeed the trend now is to do away with the kitchen and consume pizzas delivered to the door. Where in the past, most could at least cook, this is one of those fading skills along with being able to have a conversation with someone. The thing was I distinctly remember on Tomorrow's World circa 1970s that in the future everything would be so much better will all the improvements to technology. The downside of this new improved future is mass mental illness. Have you seen the figures recently? In fact another point was when I used to ask people why they did not go out and socialise more, the often mentioned reason was they could not afford it. I think there is another reason now: it is dangerous. |
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