Research done by PhD students who get paid around £12k a year and have to supplement their income by teaching and working second jobs such as macdonalds. They do live in the real world trying to make a future for themselves and more importantly trying to undertake a public service by investigating issues that affect all of society.houseboy wrote:I know who is calling for it but my point is that someone makes a statement like this and you can bet that someone in government will take it up and run with it, they wait for this kind of stuff to come out then decide if can be used to raise tax, inevitably.
Further, those calling for this presumably have nice, well paid jobs at Oxford and don't care too much about rising prices so make ridiculous suggestions like this without wondering about the consequences of their suggestions.
And you talk about getting out more, it's these people who don't live in the real world, the one where many (most?) people are striving to make ends meet, the world where people have to live everyday without the comfort and safety of a well paid job with, presumably, research money to play with.
I get out plenty mate and I see what happens in the real world, I'm not stuck in the artificial world of Oxford's gleaming spires.
Yet again another set of uninformed posts that have no concept of how the real world works. Sad really.