Ruling the World

TheCatWoman said:

What would you do if you suddenly became empress/or of everything?

A Billy says, ban social media. It brings 10% joy and 90% misery.

I'd ban organised religion - faith / belief is fine but the organisations that feed off of it are almost entirely corrupt,

I'd ban career politicians - make serving in politics a form of national service.

Speaking of national service, I would make practical work experience mandatory for 14-18 year olds. Get them some skills that will be useful in the real world and get their noses out of their phones in the process.

Early exposure to the harsher requirements of the working life should stop so much snowflakery in the workplace when they finally join it.

I'm not saying to make their life misery but to make it clear that working isn't just about following your dream, doing good and being the star all the time. This stuff normally has to be earned through graft and sweat over time so unless you can identify your own route to this then know what you are getting yourself into.

Focussing on manufacturing skills, using your hands (with tools) to create stuff and how to make stuff sustainable should bring back the focus to local manufacturing eventually and may help reinvent the home grown manufacturing base that has almost dissapeared.

Bring in mandatory training for employers (especially the NHS) for all disabilities. This will include autism but should help with the detection and treatment for so many other issues as well.

Shifting the spending focus from overseas aid to domestic aid would be on my list. Sort out more of the issues at home before worrying about the many, many overseas problems.

This makes a good starting point.

Good idea for a thread!

TheCatWoman said:

What would you do if you suddenly became empress/or of everything?

A Billy says, ban social media. It brings 10% joy and 90% misery.

I'd ban organised religion - faith / belief is fine but the organisations that feed off of it are almost entirely corrupt,

I'd ban career politicians - make serving in politics a form of national service.

Speaking of national service, I would make practical work experience mandatory for 14-18 year olds. Get them some skills that will be useful in the real world and get their noses out of their phones in the process.

Early exposure to the harsher requirements of the working life should stop so much snowflakery in the workplace when they finally join it.

I'm not saying to make their life misery but to make it clear that working isn't just about following your dream, doing good and being the star all the time. This stuff normally has to be earned through graft and sweat over time so unless you can identify your own route to this then know what you are getting yourself into.

Focussing on manufacturing skills, using your hands (with tools) to create stuff and how to make stuff sustainable should bring back the focus to local manufacturing eventually and may help reinvent the home grown manufacturing base that has almost dissapeared.

Bring in mandatory training for employers (especially the NHS) for all disabilities. This will include autism but should help with the detection and treatment for so many other issues as well.

Shifting the spending focus from overseas aid to domestic aid would be on my list. Sort out more of the issues at home before worrying about the many, many overseas problems.

This makes a good starting point.

Good idea for a thread!

This platform is technically a form of social media. Will it be included in your bans.

I also find it ironic that you're complaining about 'snowflakes' but also requiring training on disabilities. A lot of people would consider understandings disabilities 'Wokeness' and that autistic people are just 'snowflakes'

I would totally ban all under 21’s from being allowed anywhere near any forms of technology, including computers, internet, mobile phones (even “brick” phones), games consoles and TV, radio, at all, for any reason, regardless of the circumstances and would ban parents from having any such devices in thier possession in thier family homes where any under 21’s are living and even then, under strict licence and device registration controls with weekly police inspections as well as from the local councils - I would use the law to shape moral values and proper moral standards 

I think lots of young people would like to work, but for various reasons aren't allowed too. I'm not sure that all work is harder than school, it depends on what you do, you will probably have more protections at work than school for things like bullying and you won't have to put up with so many rules for the sake of having rules.

Can you give some examples of "snowflakery and wokeness in the workplace"?

I would add that people would benefit from better careers advice and the reform of adult education, student loans are a joke and put to much pressure on the parents of university students to cough up. Some parents refuse, they also refuse to take thier young people back in the hoiidays. There are very few ways to fund post grad education, if you go into a phd dept, you will find it's nearly all foreign students, home ones can't afford it. There also needs to be funding for people who are retraining, I wonder how many of us are still doing the job we did when we left school or education? There are to many professions that people want to enter and can't because of lack of funding and those workers are needed. For example, I was talking to my osteopath about the number of people who are not working because of things like sciatica, he reckons he could help about 80% of these people within 2-3 visits. Why are there no NHS osteopaths? Why do people have to suffer and get addicted to pain killers as thats all that allopathic medicne can or will offer?

One of the things that people don't think about with foreign aid, and sadly this includes you too Iain, is that it can help to stop migration. If people have no reason to up root themselves from their country of origin they often won't, but when they lack the basics they will often have little or no choice. I'd like to see much more of our foreign aid budget go into conflict resolution.

If I were being really unreasonable I'd ban sport. I'd at least make a free to air channel for it so as my programs aren't constantly interupted, cancelled and generally mucked up because of it.