The greed of the Irish strikes again....Adele concert!!!

RayCon wrote: »

Is she still yapping on about breaking up etc ?

Nah, she's calling him back now.
I have to say I don't think it's an Irish thing and I have been known to give out yards about the Irish, let's not go there right now...
It really is a case of people are willing to pay, so let's up the price until they're stop buying. My issue is also a bit with the morons paying idiotic prices and ruining it for genuine fans.
Moderate capitalism used to be calculate your cost and add a margin. These days it's more "how much can we screw out of the bastard before us tells us to fcuk off". But hardly specifically Irish.
But it is true that everything has always been at least 20% more expensive here, so higher wages offset by higher costs, so in the end it all ends up the same. That much cannot be disputed. Food, housing, entertainment, transport, energy, healthcare, education and anything else has always been more expensive here than anywhere else on Europe. Its was almost a point of pride in 2006 that Dublin was more expensive than Paris. In a way its equality, everyone thinks they are 20% better off than anyone else in Europe, while really they pay 20% more and in the end they are not.
And the few poor people who her crushed under the wheels of this particular gravy train? Well, they're poor, so they hardly matter.