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DarkDoc posted...

And overperformed at wiping out revenues for a lot of local businesses, because people are choosing not to go shopping or take a holiday in Wales.

Over the longer term, it will also overperform at giving people breathing difficulties. Because cars are not built for driving 20mph and putting that as the default speed limit for an entire country is just fucking dumb.

Rather than just feelings, let's start getting some data here. Can you show with some actual data that a 20mph speed limit on restricted roads, not the whole country can be linked with tourists not visiting Wales and having a negative environmental impact?

How convenient that it's a nice round number. Almost as if it was complete bullshit that somebody just made up.

The exact number varies depending on how you're defining "enough", most of the studies I've seen have said we make enough today for approx 10-12b people. The issue is waste and inefficiency. Just as an example, do you know how much is thrown away because it doesn't "look" right?

But ask yourself why McDonald's and all these other successful companies are changing the fundamentals of their business in this way. It's almost as if it's better or something. Like, McDonald's are experts at "generating revenue", they know what they're doing.

Because they personally make more profit. How are you still struggling to understand the difference between profits for businesses and revenue for the state? What can I do to help you understand this basic concept, because there's no point in continuing this if you cannot understand this.

Yes. It's good.

I just think you're having real trouble understanding the word can't. As in "not everybody can live close to everything"

I understand the word, I just don't think it's applicable here. We decide what is constructed where. If an area is lacking amenities, it's because we have chosen to build it without those amenities, it's not because we are unable to build them.

I'm no expert. I just know how to Google something. And I know to bear in mind that "unemployment" has been hijacked and no longer means "people who are not employed". Google has been suggesting stories to me on a daily basis this week, from several different newspapers. It even cropped up on the Gamefaqs Poll Of The Day, lol.

Breakdown is that 9.2 million people of working age in the UK are unemployed, but if you exclude lots of people, you get to make yourself look good by claiming "1.2 million unemployed."

Yes, this is why I'd like you to provide a breakdown of this statistic. The 1.36m unemployed specifically includes those who have been looking for 4+ weeks and are available to start within 2 weeks. I totally agree that that figure ignores a lot of other people who normal people would consider unemployed, which is problematic on its own. However, the 9.2m you're quoting includes a lot of people that a reasonable person wouldn't say must be employed.

I'm confident any breakdown I provided will be twisted, so I'd like you to provide the breakdown on this 9.2m figure.

Or, a line was built connecting 2 places, and it went in a straight line, therefore not every station in-between is actually in a town centre.

You just wouldn't bother building a station at that point

It generates money for the business (eg cinema car park - people aren't just going there and parking their car for no reason). It sometimes generates additional revenue by literally charging people to park (some national trust places, which are otherwise inaccessible, charge money to park when the attraction itself is free).

I addressed this earlier.