What's your one magic thing to fix the country?

[Reluctantadult]

If you could do something to sort out the country / world, what would it be? Your one magic wish. You can have more than one of you want, I'm not adverse to a green point plan!

Free public transport for all

Ban second homes.
A house should be a home and not an investment opportunity.

free public transport--- people often say this but it would make life so much more difficult. just doesn't seem practical when you have kids to drop off /pick up or don't work extremely close to where you live.

A bus or train would take 50 mins to do what is a 15 min car journey so I couldn't work normal hours even with after-school care.

Also not practical if you have lots of baggage or live far from the bus stop. I don't want to be carrying a big coat and heavy bag with umbrella, laptop, office shoes (as I'm wearing shoes suitable for walking to the bus stop in), lunch for the day and anything else I might need on and off buses or trains.

I don't live in the countryside, live in a decent size town but even so it would take 2 buses and over an hour to get to work which is 6 miles away

Don't use it then , but it would be absolutely amazing for many people, plus there would be far less traffic, plus obviously air quality would improve meaning all our kids would live longer.

I'd be interested to see what would happen if we made profit illegal. Companies would have to either plough the money back into the company, making it safer, better, easier to operate, or give it as dividends to workers or pass the success on to customers with lower prices and good deals. That would lead to a much faster and wider-spread 'trickle down' than keeping the wealth glutted at the top.

I'd also be interested to see what would happen if we swapped JSA benefits and everyone on them got re-employed by the government, according to what they were able to do - a few child-friendly hours a week in exchange for money would enable to government to stop profit-led tenders for things like cleaning hospitals. There'd be plenty of care workers and affordable nursery spaces, clean streets. Not suggesting putting people to work who are too ill to do so, but people who have lost their jobs could work PT for the Gov until they found a better position.

Go back to hunter-gatherers.

Yes, please. I'm so sick of the playground bickering in the House. It's odious and embarassing.

The point is @lannistunut that imo it wouldn't help all that many people.

It there's going to be 'one magic fix' I think it should be something more universal.

It's not like there's data or a definitive answer but anecdotally I think this would help quite a small number of people in a limited set of circumstances.

Personally, I'd prefer something like a change to the voting / political system or education as I feel that would have a wider impact on more members of society.