Brexit or how I'll make a killing in forex

Show your work.

 

You don't know the meaning of the word. Or lots of other words. OK, you don't know the meaning of most words.

 

The process IS the inconvenience, particularly with regard to work visas. Don't lump me in with the "end of the world" crowd, if there really is one. But from the perspective of a young, upwardly mobile Brit, it sucks, and they're telling us it sucks, and it seems kind of silly to lean back from an ocean away and tell them, "Eh, quit whining, it's no big deal." If I needed to go through customs and obtain a visa every time I went to a different state for work, it would be a hassle. And, again, the fascinating thing about it is the lack of any clear upside that explains why Britain voted to saddle itself with this hassle.

 

Yes, I'm pro-choice but would like to see where I have been seen "cheering on rapists" ...

 

Yeah, and the folks living in Wales or the north of England, who don't regularly weekend on the continent, don't give a fuck.

They think young, upwardly mobile Londoners have profited at their expense.

It's very specifically a fuck you to them.

 

Well, I'm sure some would say taxpayers no longer having to ship billions of pounds to a bloated bureaucracy in Brussels qualifies as an "upside." Just sayin....

 

I like to think that reasonably intelligent people would figure out a better way to get their point across than fucking themselves over.

 

It is a common human fallacy well beyond ideology that when things are bad, people assume "well, they can't get any worse." Of course they can. Always.

 

For travel, yeah. Basically. Fly in, show passport, clear customs. The ahead-of-time part is getting the passport. The worry isn't really about travel. It's about the ability to live and work where you want. You might not be able to get a visa for a job in Paris that you wouldn't have had any obstacles to before. Basically, it's not just that there's obstacles to work, it's also that there's no guarantee those obstacles will be surmountable.

 

I'm not defending it. But folks feel like they've been screwed by elites, who have profited off of a global economy while they've been left behind.

They don't feel like they have much to lose.

This was a chance to make their voices heard, and exact a little revenge.

 

The people who voted to leave aren't up for a job in Paris, and aren't contemplating a move to the French Riviera.

They don't care.

 

Great. Not really the point of the conversation we were having, though. Simply discussing how things were likely changing.