Inequality

[VladimirIlyich]

11 minutes ago, Anubis said:

The Guardian suggesting state pension age will have to rise to 71 for anyone born over 1970.

Bigger tax cuts ahead for the rich yet again,no doubt. 

What a country!

[Kepler-186]

“Looks like class war’s back on the menu, boys!” 
 

 

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, Tj hooker said:

The state pension is already the worst in Europe as well , if it goes up to 71 I'd imagine thousands will miss out on it altogether. 

 

I'd be very surprised if anyone under about 45 ever received a state pension.

[Strontium]

On 28/01/2024 at 18:59, Kepler-186 said:

I’ll link the article below that features the above YouTube report on how Roblox is exploiting child labor and being massively rewarded for it. Videos about 16 minutes long.
 

Didn’t know much about Roblox but there’s been a raft of mergers and layoffs across the gaming industry. 

 

Article is a lengthy read but if you even know a little about how big games like Fortnite and CoD work using in game currency and items it’s quite a revelation. 
 

https://open.substack.com/pub/peewee/p/the-addiction-economy-seeks-to-create?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

 

I know a bit about this as the son of someone I know has been playing Roblox since he was a kid and now designs games on the platform. His game came out last year and was one of the top 5 games on the platform for a while.

 

It's certainly true that Roblox takes the lion's share of any money that the games make. On the other hand, this is a young man, from a working class family, who is going to be a millionaire this year. I don't know of any non-criminal way that a kid like that, with no formal training and entirely self-taught, could make that kind of money that quickly.

 

I was talking with someone else who knows more about Roblox than me, and they described the Roblox business model as targeting "rich autistic kids who will zonk out doing repetitive Ritalin tasks and dump their parents' wallet into getting the latest in-game hat".

 

It all sounds pretty exploitative to me, but I do think anyone designing games with the intent of getting rich is likely pissing in the wind; the impression I got was that the game designing was part of the overall user experience, and if your game ended up making money, that was a bonus. But either way, Roblox wins.

[Kepler-186]

15 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

I know a bit about this as the son of someone I know has been playing Roblox since he was a kid and now designs games on the platform. His game came out last year and was one of the top 5 games on the platform for a while.

 

It's certainly true that Roblox takes the lion's share of any money that the games make. On the other hand, this is a young man, from a working class family, who is going to be a millionaire this year. I don't know of any non-criminal way that a kid like that, with no formal training and entirely self-taught, could make that kind of money that quickly.

 

I was talking with someone else who knows more about Roblox than me, and they described the Roblox business model as targeting "rich autistic kids who will zonk out doing repetitive Ritalin tasks and dump their parents' wallet into getting the latest in-game hat".

 

It all sounds pretty exploitative to me, but I do think anyone designing games with the intent of getting rich is likely pissing in the wind; the impression I got was that the game designing was part of the overall user experience, and if your game ended up making money, that was a bonus. But either way, Roblox wins.

Cheers for that Stronts, good to get a bit of perspective. 
 

Good luck to the kid it he’s getting paid, that’s the name of the game. 
 

 

[Bjornebye]

Yeah sounds like he’s winning too. Good on him. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

This seemed the most appropriate place to post this. 
 

Well done, that man. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/07/liverpool-man-who-inherited-100000-lets-12-strangers-give-the-money-away

[Anubis]

Hat’s off. What an incredible view on life and community.

[VladimirIlyich]

13 hours ago, Nelly-Szoboszlai said:

This seemed the most appropriate place to post this. 
 

Well done, that man. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/07/liverpool-man-who-inherited-100000-lets-12-strangers-give-the-money-away

That's fantastic. The problem is that even a nice sum of money like that will soon be gone and the whole thing will be back to square one due to the depth of the inequality and poverty. If more people did this though,who knows?

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

That's fantastic. The problem is that even a nice sum of money like that will soon be gone and the whole thing will be back to square one due to the depth of the inequality and poverty. If more people did this though,who knows?

 

Well, there'll be a Labour government soon. I imagine Keir Starmer will fix the problem.

[VladimirIlyich]

41 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Well, there'll be a Labour government soon. I imagine Keir Starmer will fix the problem.

The sad thing is that this is the best option we can hope for.

[Anubis]

This from the Mirror comments section on the story. What a society we live in.

 

1. recollectionsmayvery4 DAYS AGO

   It would have been much better spent if the residents spent it on themselves.

   & also .. No ya didn't  EDITED

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   Comment by sammidge73.

   sammidge734 DAYS AGO

2. And the fact he’s “ a researcher” doesn’t go unnoticed

    

    

   sammidge734 DAYS AGO

   Someone needs to look into this chap’s finances a bit more.. who today that is a delivery driver can claim they are wealthy enough not to want £100k?? How’s that work?

[Jairzinho]

They're genuinely startled that someone is nice.

[Gnasher]

 

 

[Anubis]

Grand Designs should have had a special on it. I wonder where he’s been living since he was released. This was 2020 and housing has only gotten worse. I wonder how hard it is for the invisible homeless now.

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath

[Anubis]

It's always the poorest in society taking the hits. Always.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/16/jobcentres-told-to-stop-referring-benefit-claimants-to-food-banks

[VladimirIlyich]

18 minutes ago, Anubis said:

It's always the poorest in society taking the hits. Always.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/16/jobcentres-told-to-stop-referring-benefit-claimants-to-food-banks

Absolute cunts. This should never be understated at any opportunity about Tory governments.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm sure they're worth every penny.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Imagine if a CEO of a company with 2,000 employees decided, instead of paying himself (and it's almost always himself) £3.8m he'd make do with a measly £1.4m and pay every employee an extra £100 a month.  The CEO would still have more money than he could ever spend, but the employees would have a better chance of affording stuff they need; and that money would keep circulating around the economy, driving growth and supporting jobs, instead of disappearing offshore.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Imagine if a CEO of a company with 2,000 employees decided, instead of paying himself (and it's almost always himself) £3.8m he'd make do with a measly £1.4m and pay every employee an extra £100 a month.  The CEO would still have more money than he could ever spend, but the employees would have a better chance of affording stuff they need; and that money would keep circulating around the economy, driving growth and supporting jobs, instead of disappearing offshore.

Stop this nonsense. You'll never be an economist with that attitude!

[Arniepie]

41 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Imagine if a CEO of a company with 2,000 employees decided, instead of paying himself (and it's almost always himself) £3.8m he'd make do with a measly £1.4m and pay every employee an extra £100 a month.  The CEO would still have more money than he could ever spend, but the employees would have a better chance of affording stuff they need; and that money would keep circulating around the economy, driving growth and supporting jobs, instead of disappearing offshore.

thats communist talk

[Anubis]

56 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Imagine if a CEO of a company with 2,000 employees decided, instead of paying himself (and it's almost always himself) £3.8m he'd make do with a measly £1.4m and pay every employee an extra £100 a month.  The CEO would still have more money than he could ever spend, but the employees would have a better chance of affording stuff they need; and that money would keep circulating around the economy, driving growth and supporting jobs, instead of disappearing offshore.

 

Shut up, you hard left bastard....

[Arniepie]

Just now, Anubis said:

 

Shut up, you hard left bastard....

the mind blowing aspect,normal working people will actually say,good for them

[Strontium]

How many companies with 2,000 employees are paying their CEO £3.8m?

 

The average FTSE 100 company pays a CEO salary of £3.91m (2022, most recent figures) and those 100 companies between them employ just under 4.9m people, which is an average of almost 49,000.

[Creator Supreme]

12 minutes ago, Strontium said:

How many companies with 2,000 employees are paying their CEO £3.8m?

 

The average FTSE 100 company pays a CEO salary of £3.91m (2022, most recent figures) and those 100 companies between them employ just under 4.9m people, which is an average of almost 49,000.

Ah, Smithers has arrived to release the hounds.