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0 pointshaizhung4mo ago0 comments

Obviously every nominal value is going to be higher YoY. That just immediately follows from inflation.

Almost every year in almost every country will have:

- record GDP

- record government spending

- record total wages

- record stock market prices

- record asset prices

- record government debt

You need to put these values in relation to something, otherwise they don’t mean anything.

For the UK, take for instance the public sector net wealth (Ie. Everything the UK public collectively owns). It collapsed drastically, from 220bn in 2006 to -900 bn in 2025.

Absolutely off the charts. As a result of this, the government can’t provide health care and basic support for its citizens anymore.

Question: who has all this wealth now, who is the UK indebted to?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...

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ukrefugee4mo ago

https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/298478/public-sector-expe...

no, I speak in relative values to GDP

only during WW2 was spending higher.

on top of it UK does no longer spend on military or infrastructure, it goes overwhelmingly to consumption of dependent population

tome4mo ago

> > tax revenues are higher than ever, government spending is higher than ever, social programs and social spending is higher than ever

> Obviously every nominal value is going to be higher YoY

It's not just nominal. You can see on the Institute for Fiscal Studies website that, as proportion of GDP, public spending has not been notably higher than since the second world war:

https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-data-item/uk-government-spe...

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