@worstall @Larocatain @99Akz “capital income is extraordinarily concentrated among a small fraction of individuals at the top of the global distribution”
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James Haskell
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James Haskell
@NotJamesHaskell
he/him 🏳️🌈🤝🏳️⚧️ Vote Green 💚💚
Brighton, England انضم Ekim 2015
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@Larocatain @99Akz So, the proof: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2… And in the Piketty, Saez, Zucman work the value of capital is simply the capitalisation of income streams from it. So, if income is more equal, so is capital.
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35% of Italian families have second homes, 25% of Iberian, every plot point in those Scandi Noir novels takes place at the summer cottage.
What the fuck is it with Britain where being normal, civilised, European, means punitive tax levels?
Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod
Yes, because you now have two homes.
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@louismosley @_BoldPolitics @ZackPolanski We can do that without using a company that supports the genocide in Palestine.
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@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:
1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.
Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.
A few corrections for you:
Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)
We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).
We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.
There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.
Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.
We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.
We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.
I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:
->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer
Respect again for what you did with that jacket.
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@bolsh3vik @ZackPolanski These will be put to members to vote on. Zack cannot unilaterally change party policy.
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This isn't going to chime well with the tens of thousands of radical young people who have turned to the Greens recently.
@ZackPolanski, learn the lessons of the Corbyn movement: moderation and respectability will get you nowhere!
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski’s Green Party will conduct a “full review” of its policies Policies including abolish the monarchy, making private landlords illegal, and reducing the motorway speed limit to 55mph are set to be cut [@POLITICOEurope]
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@technopopulist They are not his policies. Members get to decide policy. Once the review has taken place the suggestions will be put to members to vote on.
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Polanski now realises that he, like Icarus, has flown too close to the sun. Some of his more extreme policies have handed easy ammunition to both the tabloid and broadsheet press, as well as to his opponents on the left. Pulling back at this stage is a shrewd move, and a rare one in politics.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski’s Green Party will conduct a “full review” of its policies Policies including abolish the monarchy, making private landlords illegal, and reducing the motorway speed limit to 55mph are set to be cut [@POLITICOEurope]
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@lane_d12 @PolitlcsUK @POLITICOEurope You do realise he doesn’t make policy? Members decide policy. The policy review is due to the fact that some of the policies might be old and no longer relevant.
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@PolitlcsUK @POLITICOEurope Polanski is desperate.
He knows his Anti-British policies won’t get him what he wants.
Whatever he does …. Do not vote Green.
They are dangerous to the future of Britain.
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🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski’s Green Party will conduct a “full review” of its policies
Policies including abolish the monarchy, making private landlords illegal, and reducing the motorway speed limit to 55mph are set to be cut
[@POLITICOEurope]
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@Abouterf197543 What a nasty bully the person filming is. Why the fuck do you need to film and post her because she happened to need to use the toilet. She wasn’t disturbing anyone and in fact harassing people makes toilets less safe for all women. I really hope you never have to experience that
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Westminster bubble might dismiss this as “clip farming” or “student politics”- but the fact is - when the media class were heralding Mandelson’s appointment as “shrewd”, “genius” or “bold” etc. - Zarah was calling out the Epstein connection…
Can’t say no one raised it at time…
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Zarah Sultana is suspended and removed from the House of Commons for calling Keir Starmer a liar "I have a duty to my constituents to tell the truth and the Prime Minister is a liar"
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How is it 65% of our population are so economically illiterate?
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: 65% of Brits support the Green Party's policy of capping CEO pay at ten times the pay of the lowest paid employee
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@heungminson24 @maxcownie_ a) asylum seekers are entitled to be here under international law. b) money invested in asylum seekers brings more back into the economy c) I have never claimed we live in a closed loop system, my argument is about demand side economics. d) does it matter where I work?
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@NotJamesHaskell @maxcownie_ Printing money to give to people who aren’t entitled to be here causes inflation for zero benefit.
You pretend we live in a closed-loop system, and we don’t. The stronger our currency is the cheaper everything is because of our global supply chain.
What do you do for work?
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@heungminson24 @maxcownie_ Hyperinflation is different from bankruptcy but you still haven’t explained how borrowing from ourselves to invest in high ROI areas like healthcare and public transport will cause hyperinflation.
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@NotJamesHaskell @maxcownie_ And if we had hyperinflation we’d no longer because able to afford anything on the international market and our country would completely collapse.
Stop being a retard.
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@heungminson24 @maxcownie_ They would if we allowed them to work legally. Many asylum seekers are doctors and engineers and many are not, either way the UK needs more young people to work here as we have an ageing population.
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@NotJamesHaskell @maxcownie_ Asylum seekers don’t pay more into the system than they pay out do they? How very silly.
High-skilled immigrants individually do (I work with many in engineering) but the low skilled mass migrants doing Deliveroo or on benefits or in social housing absolutely do not. No chance.
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@LRich0202 @Tomchong1119163 @Monty__1010 A jobs guarantee? Training programmes? Free NHS Prescriptions? No shit in the rivers? Rent freezes? Energy security so no more sky high bills? I can go on…
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The greens couldn’t be further detached from the working class if they tried. What do the greens offer to a stereotypical English guy working on a building site? They’re so concerned with identity politics and cater more to uni educated, Surrey trust fun types that are what they hate.
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@DominicMcGregor Tress share nutrients via their roots and the mycelial network. In our economy fat cats hoard nutrients while the rest of us starve. Yours is an obsession with the height of the tree, ours is an obsession with the health of the forest.
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As a Green Party follower, you’ll be familiar with trees.
There are two ways to own the tallest tree in the forest.
You either nurture it, feed it, and give it everything it needs to grow.
Or you cut down every other tree around it so yours stands tallest by default.
One builds something.
The other just shrinks everyone else.
I’d rather grow the forest.
You’d rather take an axe to it.
Adam Pugh@AdamPugh
Just to make it clear: There will never be a time when it’s morally justifiable to pay the CEO of Tesco £10million. Ever. If you can’t grasp that you’re actually just an incredibly shitty person.
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@LondonLabour @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty a) that’s not the Star of David, it’s the flag of Israel. Two very different things. b) Palestine has a right to resist occupation including via armed resistance. Of course they committed war crimes and yet you wouldn’t criticise a Zionist for posting a picture of an IOF soldier.
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Saiqa Ali’s racist views should end her political career. She is not fit for public office.
@ZackPolanski has repeatedly failed to act, refusing to kick racists out of his own party.
Why is he protecting this?
Welcome to the new @TheGreenParty
Lambeth Labour@LambethLabour
.@ZackPolanski You and @Lambethgp have selected this candidate to represent the Green Party in Lambeth. These racist views do not represent Lambeth. This is not who we are. Are you going to withdraw Saiqa Ali as a candidate and condemn her views?
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@triffic_stuff_ 1. First past the post is a broken system. Even Farage wanted to change it until he realised he’s now going to be benefiting from it. 2. Taxes on the rich reduces inequality so that working people can afford the basics. 3. The Green Party has a lot of policies on reducing crime.
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🚨 Zack Polanski Warns: "I'm Coming for Your Money" If I Become Prime Minister! 🚩
Green Party leader openly admits his top priorities:
First: Overhaul the voting system — scrap first-past-the-post so his radical Greens can hoover up way more seats and lock in their control.
Second: Introduce a wealth tax — reach straight into people's pockets and seize even more of their hard-earned money.
That's it. Not the collapsing economy. Not energy production or prices. Not borders, crime, or any real crisis destroying Britain.
Just rig the rules to help himself and his crew win bigger... then help himself to even more of other people's wealth.
How very convenient for a man with big ambitions.
This is deeply revealing about Polanski's true priorities. Behind the mild-mannered, "community power" eco-activist mask is a classic power-hungry radical: first change the game so you can dominate it, then tax everyone else to fund the fantasy.
No thanks. Zack Polanski isn't interested in fixing Britain, he's interested in remaking it to suit his socialist dreams, one self-serving power grab and wealth grab at a time.
Dangerous priorities from a dangerous dreamer.
Power grab + wealth grab. Classic.
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@heungminson24 @maxcownie_ That would make sense except for the fact that immigrants/asylum seekers pay more into the system than they take out. You can’t bankrupt a country via hyperinflation if a) there’s enough supply and b) money spent gives more in return.
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@NotJamesHaskell @maxcownie_ Bankruptcy in all but name, with the outcomes being the same for the British people.
Through hyperinflation by borrowing insane amounts of money to pay £2,500 per month to asylum seekers for “climate asylum” (their policies).
Devalues GBP until it’s useless to other countries
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@linmeitalks If the CEO wants to make more money they can pay their employees better
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If the max you can earn in the UK as a CEO is around £200k annually because of the Green Party policy - there will be minimal tax collected, so how will the Greens fund their expensive policies???
Whoever is voting Greens needs their head testing.
There will be no money for anything!
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@ReasonBites @K4rmaRules @_Unknown_D_ If the left are economically illiterate then why is Spain the fastest growing country in Europe? The right wing narrative that the economy works like a household budget where the government spends tax payers money just isn’t true.
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@K4rmaRules @_Unknown_D_ You have any facts and data? Metrics? Statistics?
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@heungminson24 @maxcownie_ How do you bankrupt a country that has a sovereign currency? It’s not like the economy is a household budget.
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@maxcownie_ Far more dangerous. The greens would bankrupt our country within weeks if not days.
We’d all be living in equal poverty together.
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