Re: buy gold now
Australia, although superficially similar to the US, is in reality an evolving bureaucratic and surveillance state.
Our prison colony foundations, class system and bureaucracies were never abandoned.
The 'state', in its various manifestations and at all levels, has extensive and intrusive powers. Many more powers than are evident in the UK, let alone the US.
For example the state dictates the minimum amounts that workers must save and even when and at what rate, they can spend those savings.
For those on social welfare support, the state dictates which goods, and what quantities, can be purchased.
A separate judicial structure - called the arbitration system - dictates the wages that workers will be paid, and it applies a variety of passing moral imperatives to wage structures.
A vast superstructure of bureaucrats and woke do-gooders runs this system - and most of the provisions are mandatory.
Top bureaucrats have vast powers - and, quite often are openly contemptuous or their political 'masters'. The top bureaucrats are now, as one would expect, paid vastly more than the leading politicians.
It is a weird and whacky system. Perhaps the oddest thing is that it seems to work to the satisfaction of many.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
