It seems the big corporations like to exploit the poor with stuff like zero hours contracts and also don't like to provide services to the poor either.
Witness the latest move by the Supermarkets to pre-authorise a charge of £99 at pay at pump fuel pumps. Now, I have a gas-guzzling petrol-engined 3 litre 4x4 and it still doesn't need £99 to fill the tank.
So why have the big corporations decided on this vast sum of money to allow you access to fuel? Because you do know that if you don't have £99 in your account, the pump will not dispense fuel. You'll instead have to make the walk of shame to the kiosk to pay in cash or by card. That's as long as cash is accepted and as long as the kiosk is open.
No 24-hour service for you, pleb.
So yet again the poorest in society get discriminated against. Those just hanging in there, just able to pay the rent and buy food, those with just enough money in their account to pay for a week's fuel. Service denied for the likes of you.
Of course the supermarkets are blaming the banks and the card providers. I understand, but the supermarkets are the ones deciding on the £99 figure. A more reasonable figure would be er, more reasonable. £30, £40 or even £50, but not £99. I doubt the average fuel stop requires anywhere near that amount of fuel.
And what happens if the fee doesn't immediately get refunded back into your account? What happens if they take the £99 and "accidentally" hold onto it for a couple of days? Who compensates the person without the money? Will they be compensated? The answer is pretty obvious that all we'll get is apologies and the banks will be blamed and you'll just have to wait while you starve with no mopney to buy food, or your landlord gets on your case because your rent remains unpaid because your account is £99 shy and the bank rejected the transaction.
This is just another move by the financial institutions to deny service to the poor. I worked at HSBC back in the Nineties and there was talk back then of providing tiered levels of service depending on the amount of money flowing through your account. The poor would get basic services and also be charged for the privilege. Banks, Leeches both the same thing.
Of course it's a money-making scam. By falsely inflating the bank's accounts they make even more money. That £99 even if it's in their account for the minute or two it takes to dispense fuel, means they've just made a couple of quid out of you. Multiply that by the many thousands of transactions over the course of 24 hours and that's a lot of money the banks and card providers are making out of you. Leeches doesn't come close in describing it.
At any one time there will be hundreds of £99 pre-authorisations in their account, inflating their account and net worth by several thousand pounds. It's also amazing how you can make money out of leveraging cash flow. If the banks can prove they are doing several thousand £99 transactions into and out of their account, that money can be used to leverage loans, credit terms, you name it. It just makes things easier thanks to the plebs paying for fuel at the pumps.
They really don't like the poor. I wonder when Bill Gate's latest idea of synthetic protein will have a natural protein alternative. Maybe the synthetic version will be green and the natural one red... maybe call the product Soylent?
Maybe that's the future for the poor. Scoop 'em up and mash 'em into a pulp for protein tablets. Don't think it's not possible. Anything is possible once a section of society has been "othered". The elites think that AI and robots will replace the poor with a more stable workforce. The poor will become superfluous, eventually described by the media and the elites as a drag on the economy. Then it'll be time to get rid of the poor in whatever way possible.
Once again I hear absolutely nothing from the Labour Party about this attack on the poor, this discrimination against those just hanging on. Nothing, Nada, Nowt.
I assume that those Labour MPs treading the guilded corridors of Westminster don't think that £99 is too unreasonable a sum of money, with their huge salaries and expense accounts. And that's the problem with the p[eople that are supposed to represent the poor. They are completely removed from the people they are supposed to represent. The Labour party now has a narrow Islington-centric view of the world. The poor in this country are not on the radar any more. Instead they prefer to virtue-signal and save the poor of the world, at the expense of the poor already in this country.
The Labour party is fucked up and is no longer of any value to the poor working class of the UK. It is no longer fit to warrant the votes of the working class.
My advice is to boycott those establishments doing this £99 pre-authorisation. If you can't avoid using them, don't pay at the pump and instead pay by cash in the kiosk. That way they make less money out of your money. It costs them to pay for a member of staff in the kiosk and also it costs them to convert the cash into money in their account. Fuck 'em.