Comments on: Class issues

By: Hugh Murphy

Hugh Murphy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:48:28 +0000

There’s also a class system operating in the Trade Unions.

The Upper Class – ICTU are ignoring the fact that SIPTU is covering up the corruption of ITGWU.

This union, at the Belfast Docks persecuted and deprived the Belfast Dockers of their lives by making them discharge Asbestos. The Trade Union Leaders in the South – along with The Irish Times and The Times don’t want to know.

Irish Workers died, and are dying with the full agreement of their union, so the Belfast Employers could save money by not providing safety equipment.

By: irishflirtysomething

irishflirtysomething — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:53:26 +0000

The English have a class society and everyone knows their place.
The Americans have no class society but everyone knows their place.
The Irish have a class society but nobody knows their place.

By: Ricky The Saint

Ricky The Saint — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:32:11 +0000

Is this not just another facet of US/UK social immobility and inequality? I wonder how irish usage breaks down by class (sorry I forgot Ireland is a class free society, hhhahhahhhhahhahaha)

By: Niall

Niall — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:42:33 +0000

Hmmm. Interesting. But what is their Bebo policy?

I really don’t care if they send me to die in Iraq, so long as I can access my Bebo.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:35:59 +0000

Why don’t the soldiers just use face book now? SIMPLE NO?

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:49:49 +0000

My theory is that we’re seeing a situation where a clique locks themselves into one social networking service, to the exclusion of the other services, and the social networking services have very little control over what cliques use them.

I guess the cliques that form in the US military similarly have accidentally locked into this Facebook/Myspace division, and I guess social class is a very strong impulse controlling clique formation.

It seems pretty hard to predict which clique will lock in to each SNS; credit to some of them for reacting quickly enough to welcome those users, though — for example Myspace has managed to make itself *the* place for bands to post their music by adding the music player widgets etc.