{"id":253831,"date":"2024-08-31T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=253831"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:11:33","slug":"who-pays-for-capitalisms-failure","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/who-pays-for-capitalisms-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Who pays for capitalism&#8217;s failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFrankly, things will get worse before they get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI\u2019ll have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well. To accept short term pain for long term good. &#8230;. And I know that after all you\u2019ve been through, that is a really big ask \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually it\u2019s a bloody cheek. How often have government asked workers to put up with pain on the promise that things will get better? It\u2019s their standard line when the state of the economy forces them to prioritise profit-making over meeting people\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>Just as of course it is standard for an incoming government to blame the outgoing one rather than capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-253831","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/253831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}