Inequality

[Arniepie]

https://x.com/David__Osland/status/1824060712961904939

[Section_31]

Wall to wall coverage of this yacht bollocks, you'd think it was the Hereld of Free Enterprise.

 

The missing tourists are billionaire Mr Lynch; his daughter, Hannah Lynch; Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo; and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

[Anubis]

Musk cleaning shop…

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

Musk cleaning shop…

 

The guy's co defendant went through a windshield a few days ago too.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

https://x.com/MisterABK/status/1826553524513108466?t=UUa4Xnu3kDKaCRdrxcvIKA&s=19

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 20/08/2024 at 19:38, Section_31 said:

 

The guy's co defendant went through a windshield a few days ago too.

Jesus, I hope you didn't have the job of informing his next-of-kin.

 

[Section_31]

Good god.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/24/i-wouldnt-wish-this-on-anyone-the-food-delivery-riders-living-in-caravan-shantytowns-in-bristol

[Creator Supreme]

34 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Good god.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/24/i-wouldnt-wish-this-on-anyone-the-food-delivery-riders-living-in-caravan-shantytowns-in-bristol

Still at least the likes of that Pimloco Plumbers cunt can pay workers poorly and buy himself a new Bentley.

[Anubis]

It’s on us though, isn’t it? We’ve become so lazy as a society that we want deliveries, but like anything else we don’t want to pay for it. If I use any of these services I never tip through the app, ai give it to the driver direct. And ai always tip.

[Jairzinho]

Yeah, stop fucking using them.

[Section_31]

I do use Uber a lot but that's because cabbies are twats.

[Anubis]

From a Times piece on the dangers of group holidays.

 

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, Anubis said:

From a Times piece on the dangers of group

holidays.

 

I'm hoping that's a parody.

[VladimirIlyich]

This lad has featured on here before but subscribing to his Youtube channel is well worth the time and effort.

 

 

[Creator Supreme]

24 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

This lad has featured on here before but subscribing to his Youtube channel is well worth the time and effort.

 

 

My cousin posts a fair bit of his stuff on Facebook, some of it is decent.

[VladimirIlyich]

18 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

My cousin posts a fair bit of his stuff on Facebook, some of it is decent.

It's largely common sense but he explains it in a more understandable way to ordinary folk.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Riley Greenleaf]

There’s nothing wrong with inherited wealth, I’d love nothing more than to leave my kids silly wealth, the issue is the system as a whole, there is just too much of a gap between the top and the bottom. I believe in progressive taxation but the jumps are too infrequent and the rises too out of synch.  Everybody should contribute a fair amount according to their means. A person earning 12.5k should not be paying tax and a person earning 51k should not be paying 40% tax, a millionaire should be paying more than 45% and as for billionaires and big profit earning businesses well a much fairer sliding scale is needed. I remember there was a poster on here, can’t remember his name but as far as I’m aware he no longer posts, he argued that when somebody dies (that’s anybody not just the rich) their estate should go to the state and not their kids. I just can’t wrap my head around that kind of thinking. What would be the purpose of anything? 

[Section_31]

I've no problem with inherited wealth or nepotism, as long as people admit to it.

 

What I can never abide is the myth that rich = hard worker and poor = lazy. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

We need to change the way we think about inherited wealth, though. Firstly, we need to accept that it's unearned by the recipient, so there's nothing wrong with taxing it. We need a more widespread awareness of how under-taxed inheritance cements inequality in from generation to generation. We need to understand how few estates actually get taxed. And we need to accept that there's a categorical difference between leaving a house, car and a few grand in savings to your kids (currently, and rightly, unlikely to be taxed) and the passing on of great fortunes.

[VladimirIlyich]

 

Nails the 'The rich will leave argument' here.

[SilverSong]

I struggle to move beyond my belief that a radical simplification of the whole taxation system is required. I cant see beyond some sort of Total Economic Activity Levy (TEAL) being the fairest system. One rule to tax them all and in fairness bind them.

You receive monada you get taxed.

You spend monada you get taxed.

At about 1%. Thats it. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

If you've read the Migrants thread, you may have detected that I am in love with Zoe Gardner.

 

This makes me want to marry her.

[Section_31]

Eton college has sent a letter to parents saying it will raise its fees by a fifth in response to the government’s removal of the VAT exemption on private schools. The annual fees will increase from £52,749 to about £63,000.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

14 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Eton college has sent a letter to parents saying it will raise its fees by a fifth in response to the government’s removal of the VAT exemption on private schools. The annual fees will increase from £52,749 to about £63,000.

 

 

At least one good thing the current government has done then. Brick by brick,hopefully.