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Chris Beldam
@ChrisBeldam
Software Engineer
United Kingdom Katılım Temmuz 2011
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@EllardKing Not true. Software engineers can easily get into this bracket if they’re based in the south
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The UK housing market has left the "single buyer" behind.
To afford the average £300k home alone, you now need a salary of £60,000 assuming a 10% deposit.
Only ONE industry in the UK has a median salary high enough to potentially qualify: Finance & Insurance (£58,488).
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@mr_james_c It’s actually pretty simple I think. In a cash isa the number never goes down (the worth does against inflation). Stocks and shares your number can quite frequently go down
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Tragic how much wealth this could actually be growing if it was in Stocks and Shares ISAs.
Instead it's just losing wealth to inflation a bit more slowly.
Simon French@Frencheconomics
The UK household love of the cash ISA shows no sign of abating. Another £4.4bn added in March. Honing in on half a trillion pounds of deposits.
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@jimmysoldout My neighbours rent for an essentially identical house is 400+ more than my mortgage (in UK). So even skipping big repairs they’re paying much more than I am
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@Zepp1978 Maybe worth using this time to try and de-compress as much as possible?
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The crappy thing about this is it has went from overly stressful to boring. I'm basically here 3 more weeks just to be a consultant/advisor. Doesn't even feel worth the drive. But I am getting paid to read a book rn, so...
Mike Muad'Dib@Zepp1978
3 more weeks until fUNemployment
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@txbamxnmicxh_s I agree the rate is too high. I don’t think most people owe hundreds of thousand though. More like, 60-70k
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1. 6% is still too fucking high
2. Most normal people who owe hundreds of thousands in student debt aren’t on a fucking £90k+ salary like you Luke
Really wish these idiots would stop pretending to care when they don’t.
Luke Charters MP@lukejcr
I’m an MP with a Plan 2 student loan myself, so I know exactly how millions feel about interest rates. Capping them at 6% is a clear signal: Labour is on the side of hardworking graduates and is tackling the cost of living head-on. 💪
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@David__Osland That’s too much. It should pay for your good and utilities and that’s it.
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When I started paying National Insurance contributions in 1976, the deal was that I'd get a pension providing for a basic standard of living in a then-unimaginable 50 years' time. But now I've finally got there, it's just half the minimum wage.
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@Arron_banks Look after them, yes. Have their pension rise faster than wages? Definitely not
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We need to look after our elderly, they paid vast amounts of NI & no one told them it was a political Ponzi scheme. This country needs to cut regulation to the bone, reduce the size of the state & go after the 8 million on benefits.
UnHerd@unherd
Yesterday, Nigel Farage announced that Reform UK would keep the triple lock if elected to government. The move is a short-term electoral gain that undermines the party’s project, writes @peterfranklin_ 👇 buff.ly/dE1OdbY
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@i30sch1 @fench_official_ But it’s better to earn more and pay more tax. I pay more tax now than I did when I started work 12 years ago but my take home pay is much much larger
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@fench_official_ Getting more money up = paying more in tax, so I can’t see how it benefits us 😂
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@WATP_NS @Arwenstar I’m in my 20s. Honestly I’m not sure where AGI will get us to by then but I’m damn sure I won’t be getting a pension. Pension system feels like a full on scam now
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@ChrisBeldam @Arwenstar You are a software engineer- what impact do you think AGI will have on every aspect of your life by the time you are say 70 - I assume you are in your thirties?
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A lot of people don’t seem to realise they’re going to be old too someday. Do they think they’re immune to ageing? I’d love to be a fly on the wall when it’s their turn to be ‘pensioners’ and they have to read all the callous “selfish old farts” comments.
Karma may take a long time but it never forgets an address.
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@Whysoglumman @Edwina_Currie I’m happy for pensions to increase each year with inflation so that it maintains the current standard and perhaps in years where wage growth is higher, it can also rise higher.
I don’t believe pensions should increase faster than wages.
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@ChrisBeldam @Edwina_Currie Then on this we will have to disagree because for me it's quality of life not longevity.
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You selfish sod.
You can work. We can’t.
We’re old.
And till you get here (IF you get here) you’ve no idea what it’s like.
Old age isn’t for cissies.
It’s for taking your tablets & managing on your pension.
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Joe Reeve - 🇬🇧/acc@isnit0
For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.
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@Whysoglumman @Edwina_Currie In an ideal world I agree with you. However people are living longer and longer and therefore we inevitably will have to work longer and become less reliant on state benefits
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@ChrisBeldam @Edwina_Currie Ok but I don't think people should be expected to work beyond 65, neither should we normalise it. I know that my own health started to deteriorate at around about 52, although at 57 I am still working without too many issues.
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@Whysoglumman @Edwina_Currie I’m not suggesting it’s something that should be done but Edwina is wrong to suggest in general that retirees cannot work.
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@ChrisBeldam @Edwina_Currie Sounds like fun, having already had 50 + years of work behind you.
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@LokiJulianus America helped destroy the European empires after WW2. Why would you now expect us to fight wars nowhere near Europe? If we’d maintained the empires you wouldn’t have to be the world police
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It wasn’t that long ago millions of young people had some of the best months of their lives stolen from them all to unsuccessfully avoid what was a nasty cold for the overwhelming majority.
To suggest youngsters have not sacrificed anything in recent years is offensive guff.
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@TheSolarShed I’ve yet to meet anyone who is against solar on roofs. Seems pretty straightforward especially for big business like supermarkets etc
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Covering 3% of the UK with solar would generate as much electricity as the UK uses in a year.
We have the solutions.
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@MartinSLewis @CommonsTreasury Let’s be honest Martin. They’ll drag this all out as long as they can so the treasury can continue to line their pockets
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The @CommonsTreasury committee has asked me to say this is the best link to use to feed in to their investigation forms.office.com/pages/response…
Martin Lewis@MartinSLewis
TREASURY COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE STUDENT LOANS (inc Plan 2). Within that there is a questionnaire for (potential) students, graduates, university leavers & others to feed your views into, which is worth doing... committees.parliament.uk/work/9682/stud… Its good to see, and lets hope it brings pressure for improvement. PS Treasury Committee is a cross party committee of MPs, not part of the government. Its job is to scrutinise policy, examine legislation where relevant, and hold ministers and public bodies to account on behalf of Parliament. While it can publish reports and put pressure on the government, but it doesn't have any direct power to compel the government to act.
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