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Some of them. There are not enough bankers in the UK to produce the turnout for leave that we saw. There were also a lot of people whose main motivation was "f*** the system", and they sort of succeeded, even if they ended up worse off as a result.

It makes me think that the academic left should be a bit more careful with their regular calls to "burn down the evil capitalist system". It turns out a mob with torches might also set fire to the parts you like.



> the academic left should be a bit more careful with their regular calls to "burn down the evil capitalist system"

They are the most obvious example of "saw off the branch you're sitting on" I can think of.




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