‘Working people” and “ordinary working people “ what are the rest

VANG1

Politicians keep using the above terms, can someone explain what they mean. How about retired people, housewives, performers, poets etc. Are they not supposed to represent everyone or are they trying to engraciate themselves to a certain group.

osarusan

Yes, ordinary working people is a huge voting demographic and politicians want to represent themselves and their parties as having that demographic at the forefront of their minds and policies.

No real mystery to it.

The same happens for pensioners, "the arts" and everybody else in some way.

Harry Palmr

Ordinary working people = taxpayers.

Jim2007

How about retired people, housewives, performers, poets etc.

So how many poets do you know? More or less than the number of PAYE workers?

Cerveza

The lads on the lifetime of rock and roll.

VANG1

Yes but are the wealthy or self employed who also pay tax included as ordinary working people, I am trying to find out who is in and who is out.

RandRuns

Ordinary working people = anyone who has a job they can be fired from
Working people = politicians, public servants, teachers, recipients of payments from NGO's etc.

VANG1

Thanks, that’s very helpful, ordinary working people can be fired and working people Like public servants have a job for life and pension.

Fred Cryton

For the parties of the left there is a class element to it. When SF says "ordinary working people" they mean taxi drivers, porters, nurses, retail workers etc....ie non-professional working classes. Because that's' where they're trying to get new votes from. They're certainly not referring to the doctors, lawyers and other professionals or those working in the multinational sector.

VANG1

Thanks, I like to think we all are working and that we need all people to make an economy no matter what type of worker you are.

Eric Cartman

‘Ordinary working people’ is used because ‘working class’ no longer means working and often represents those on lifelong welfare, ‘ordinary working people’ I always took to mean the working class who actually work.

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VANG1 wrote: »

Yes but are the wealthy or self employed who also pay tax included as ordinary working people, I am trying to find out who is in and who is out.

I think you are asking us to help you out with rudimentary comprehension here. No, the wealthy are not ordinary working people because being wealthy is not ordinary by definition.

[Deleted User]

Eric Cartman wrote: »

‘Ordinary working people’ is used because ‘working class’ no longer means working and often represents those on lifelong welfare, ‘ordinary working people’ I always took to mean the working class who actually work.

That term working class has been abused alright, but even Karl Marx wouldn't have seen the perennial unemployed as working class.

Eric Cartman

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That term working class has been abused alright, but even Karl Marx wouldn't have seen the perennial unemployed as working class.

Very true , but he’s not exactly a reasonable voice in this discussion. The lexicon had to evolve because of those to the left of the aisle have often hidden the undesirable elements behind those who are doing low paid jobs and frame every cut to welfare or increase in policing as an attack on those workers rather than admit it only hurts a demographic that most actual working class people also have a distaste for

VANG1

So if you start with nothing, start a business , work really hard and make a few quid, you are not ordinary anymore. So money is the definition of who you are. This is why I struggle. How would you describe McGregor?

Eric Cartman

VANG1 wrote: »

So if you start with nothing, start a business , work really hard and make a few quid, you are not ordinary anymore. So money is the definition of who you are. This is why I struggle. How would you describe McGregor?

up until your worth about 10 million quid you're a success and fair play to you, after that you're all sorts of derogatory names that people can revile over their pint down the pub. Name any Irish person worth more than 10 mil who the country don't have a distaste for.

Its not that money is who you are, its just a concerted effort by some political parties and journalists to bind together low income workers and perpetual welfare claimants , and other journalists and politicians trying to change the vocabulary to (in my view correctly) separate those two demographics as not to be seen to be treating workers unfairly while implementing policies the welfare classes don't like.

VANG1

I agree, but without wealth creation there is no money in taxes to fund the running of the country. We should encourage and celebrate entrepreneurs as they pay the bills for the country, instead of driving them out of the country as tax exiles. I think the only very rich guy who pays Irish tax is Michael O’Leary. All the others seem to be offshore for tax but able to own houses here. We are giving/selling citizenship to anyone with a few quid. We should keep are individuals with money. It seems we let foreign companies and individuals pay almost no tax. To me it is not joined up thinking. We need to grow our economy. A bigger cake means more tax for housing and health. Never hear this being discussed.

beggars_bush

Eric Cartman wrote: »

up until your worth about 10 million quid you're a success and fair play to you, after that you're all sorts of derogatory names that people can revile over their pint down the pub. Name any Irish person worth more than 10 mil who the country don't have a distaste for.

Its not that money is who you are, its just a concerted effort by some political parties and journalists to bind together low income workers and perpetual welfare claimants , and other journalists and politicians trying to change the vocabulary to (in my view correctly) separate those two demographics as not to be seen to be treating workers unfairly while implementing policies the welfare classes don't like.

What would he be doing if he wasn't in the MMA? Either on the rock and roll or in a state hotel

Eric Cartman

beggars_bush wrote: »

What would he be doing if he wasn't in the MMA? Either on the rock and roll or in a state hotel

I dont disagree, but thats as far as I'm going in to a discussion about that lad, have very little to say that belongs in this thread.

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VANG1 wrote: »

I agree, but without wealth creation there is no money in taxes to fund the running of the country. We should encourage and celebrate entrepreneurs as they pay the bills for the country, instead of driving them out of the country as tax exiles. I think the only very rich guy who pays Irish tax is Michael O’Leary. All the others seem to be offshore for tax but able to own houses here. We are giving/selling citizenship to anyone with a few quid. We should keep are individuals with money. It seems we let foreign companies and individuals pay almost no tax. To me it is not joined up thinking. We need to grow our economy. A bigger cake means more tax for housing and health. Never hear this being discussed.

Hang on how are they paying the bills for the country by not paying taxes and not living here? Most good paying Irish jobs are driven by external capital anyway. And lots of Irish entrepreneurship is rent seeking.

However you wanted to know what the term "ordinary Irish worker means" and clearly it doesn't mean the rich. How could it.

Eric Cartman

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Hang on how are they paying the bills for the country by not paying taxes and not living here? Most good paying Irish jobs are driven by external capital anyway. And lots of Irish entrepreneurship is rent seeking.

However you wanted to know what the term "ordinary Irish worker means" and clearly it doesn't mean the rich. How could it.

Id be interested to hear more.

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Eric Cartman wrote: »

Id be interested to hear more.

Well here is a good article on the subject. You probably won't disagree with all of it.

http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/why-the-young-are-priced-out-of-the-irish-economy/

Eric Cartman

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Well here is a good article on the subject. You probably won't disagree with all of it.

http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/why-the-young-are-priced-out-of-the-irish-economy/

Id actually agree with a lot of that. If you throw in our insanely bloated NGO sector , Ireland is awash with these effective semi states contributing almost nothing bar creating artificial employment.

mariaalice

Ireland is second only to Norway on a United Nations annual ranking of 189 countries measured according to average longevity, education, and income.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-ranked-second-in-the-world-for-quality-of-life-beating-sweden-germany-and-uk-1.4440009

RandRuns

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Id actually agree with a lot of that. If you throw in our insanely bloated NGO sector , Ireland is awash with these effective semi states contributing almost nothing bar creating artificial employment.

There was a UN meeting 2019 to discuss racism, and one of the African UN delegates expressed surprise at the number of Irish NGO's present, asking the Irish delegation if everyone in Ireland worked in an NGO!

Eric Cartman

RandRuns wrote: »

There was a UN meeting 2019 to discuss racism, and one of the African UN delegates expressed surprise at the number of Irish NGO's present, asking the Irish delegation if everyone in Ireland worked in an NGO!

Haha, that isnt even shocking, just funny. If you take mental health, suicide, diversity, racism, housing and homelessness there are over 100 NGO’s in those sectors. Its insane what we let people away with in this country. “Pay your ceo 160k, do a few interviews, hold a fun run, rinse repeat”

RandRuns

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Haha, that isnt even shocking, just funny. If you take mental health, suicide, diversity, racism, housing and homelessness there are over 100 NGO’s in those sectors. Its insane what we let people away with in this country. “Pay your ceo 160k, do a few interviews, hold a fun run, rinse repeat”

There's 1 "charity" for every 480 people in Ireland, nearly 11,000 in all.
More than a quarter of them submit abridged accounts.

The "human rights" industry in Ireland is a huge grey economy all of it's own - with dozens of highly paid "CEO's" of similar organisations, all claiming to do nearly identical work. It is in these organisations interest to promote the idea that Ireland is some kind of human rights hell, in order to keep the money flowing.

Human Rights fundraising is the 21st century equivalent of the Catholic church's indulgence sales of the middle ages - allowing those who can afford to, to get a leg up on assuaging guilt over the less well-off. And just like the church's efforts all those years ago, the sellers of a pristine conscience are laughing all the way to the bank.

mariaalice

Approximately 1.5 million NGOs operating in the United States.

https://www.state.gov/non-governmental-organizations-ngos-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=Approximately%201.5%20million%20NGOs%20operate,development%2C%20and%20many%20o

Its how a lot of services are provided.

Eric Cartman

RandRuns wrote: »

There's 1 "charity" for every 480 people in Ireland, nearly 11,000 in all.
More than a quarter of them submit abridged accounts.

The "human rights" industry in Ireland is a huge grey economy all of it's own - with dozens of highly paid "CEO's" of similar organisations, all claiming to do nearly identical work. It is in these organisations interest to promote the idea that Ireland is some kind of human rights hell, in order to keep the money flowing.

Human Rights fundraising is the 21st century equivalent of the Catholic church's indulgence sales of the middle ages - allowing those who can afford to, to get a leg up on assuaging guilt over the less well-off. And just like the church's efforts all those years ago, the sellers of a pristine conscience are laughing all the way to the bank.

I always find amnesty as the most laughable one, in the building they own there are something like 10-12 registered NGO's with similar missions, each one of them the board is the same revolving group of about 8-12 people and constantly in publications they release statements like 'x NGO thinks this is shocking, just look at this report we found from Y NGO' , they use themselves as their own validators/fact checkers.

eastie17

My assessment on the likes of SF and PBP is that when they say "working class" they mean people who are not working and are almost permanently supported by the state.
People like me who have been fortunate enough to be always in gainful employment in the private sector are their target for taking more taxes to "pay" those "working class" people more state funding. Might be simplistic but that's my summary of it and what I hear when they are talking about this.

biko

VANG1 wrote: »

Thanks, I like to think we all are working and that we need all people to make an economy no matter what type of worker you are.

Even people that don't work, or even don't pay tax, is part of the Irish economy.
They may not contribute as much as we do, for a number of reasons, but they represent a factor we have to deal with.

I get the feeling when politicians say "ordinary working people" they mean everyone in society that are affected by the decisions. Regular Joe Soaps.