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Old 3rd Jul 2009, 18:09
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Originally Posted by Re-Heat
But a capitalist society works by recycling the unemployed Wg Cmdr in a new role, either as an entrepreneur or new employee.

As a year 1 economics student would tell you, the size of the cake is not fixed!
That's as maybe, unless the wg cdr upsticks to Spain or Oz or whereever or decides his pension is big enough. Sometimes it is a double hit as Mrs Wg Cdr retires when he does too.

PS,

and I wouldn't trust any first year student to even buy a postage stamp on time.
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