Puzzling GP conversation…

Sad situation but not unexpected.

Reminds me of my PIP assessment saying that I don't need any help because I successfully completed a degree.

ha, if you got a degree then you need help because your degree would have likely put you in a life of debt lol

LOL, American propaganda again. UK student loan is incredibly easy to pay, and if you get a good degree you will earn several times the salary of a person without. If you get a Mickey Mouse degree you will be in debt for life, but then you would just deserve it. I spoke with people with an History or Arts degree earning minimum wage lol.

Minimum wage exists to benefit big business, because they can afford it, but the smaller businesses cannot.  Just politicians doing the bidding of their rich friends ... and the poverty that minimum wages cause - they do not care.
If you work or the state, you should be paid less, as you have FAR more job security.  the state takes our money by the threat or use of force (commonly called taxation), or they take it via inflation (via money printing) so state workers always get paid, the plumber will not.

I don’t understand?

builders generally set their own price. thats the difference between working for a wage and working for yourself... yet another layer of private that means more money. public isnt more money. if people want them to be paid more money then they want them to be privatised. this is sending mixed messages.

£15 per hour only seems small because the minimum wage has skyrocketed insanely.... £15 per hour is likely what they had like... 3 years or so back when we was all on £7 per hour minimum wage lol thing is when minimum wage goes up its much harder to get all the other higher brackets up, this is one argument people often have against minimum wage increases, it makes these positions that are higher than minimum wage then get devalued... but yet people who want doctors to be paid higher wages are also people who want the minimum wage to also go up higher, so the minimum wage increases negate any increase they give to the doctors... this is a tricky situation because the public calling for these things are not bright enough to understand how each thing conflicts with another and creates a endless cycle where someone is always unhappy.

builders generally set their own price. thats the difference between working for a wage and working for yourself... yet another layer of private that means more money. public isnt more money. if people want them to be paid more money then they want them to be privatised. this is sending mixed messages.

£15 per hour only seems small because the minimum wage has skyrocketed insanely.... £15 per hour is likely what they had like... 3 years or so back when we was all on £7 per hour minimum wage lol thing is when minimum wage goes up its much harder to get all the other higher brackets up, this is one argument people often have against minimum wage increases, it makes these positions that are higher than minimum wage then get devalued... but yet people who want doctors to be paid higher wages are also people who want the minimum wage to also go up higher, so the minimum wage increases negate any increase they give to the doctors... this is a tricky situation because the public calling for these things are not bright enough to understand how each thing conflicts with another and creates a endless cycle where someone is always unhappy.

Minimum wage exists to benefit big business, because they can afford it, but the smaller businesses cannot.  Just politicians doing the bidding of their rich friends ... and the poverty that minimum wages cause - they do not care.
If you work or the state, you should be paid less, as you have FAR more job security.  the state takes our money by the threat or use of force (commonly called taxation), or they take it via inflation (via money printing) so state workers always get paid, the plumber will not.