I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as a good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left. I did not know that Thatcherism would fund its economic miracle by selling off all our nationalised assets and industries. I did not realise the consequences of privatising
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