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The answer to the above is globalism. You can't compare Australia now with what Australia was in the 80's or even the 90's.
I can compare things in the 80's to now, and now is clearly far better.
There are tens of thousands of jobs in Australia and throughout the world that pay better and are easier / less risk than being a politician in Australia in the 21st century.
Yeah. Which is why I laugh when I hear people argue ''Politicians get paid too much money.''
Most Pollies are in well paying jobs that they have to leave to enter politics (usually in business or law), with their jobs up for grabs every few years via elections.
The PM of Australia earns 580k per year.
The CEO of QANTAS earns 5.17 million per year.
So the only politicians we have are crooks, influenced by foreign and domestic bribes, or morons who couldn't contemplate sound economic, health, energy or foreign policy if you gave them unlimited resources.
I love watching you support the 'pyramid' of our social hierarchy while at the same time bitching about the politicians and billionaires that sit at the top of the pyramid or our social hierarchy, and only got there because of how the pyramid (that you support) works.
The fact you totally fail to see the disconnect in your logic astounds me.
Stop supporting the very hierarchal system that enables billionaires to do what they want in the first place. You're never getting a seat at their table, so why support the system that enables them, particularly when you seem to oppose the lot of them and how they got there?
You're the first one to support right wing parties, tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, abolishment of support for the poor etc.
It's utterly hilarious. You're doing the work of the very people you loathe for them.