@wha1n0w @uncreativetom CEOs earning a lot more than cleaners is the opposite of a problem.
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dee harvey
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dee harvey
@deeharvey
Director. Writer. VR/AR/XR. Tribunal Rep. Singer in choirs and karaoke booths.
Northern Ireland Katılım Ocak 2007
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@uncreativetom they'll be moved to a contractor on Friday, same pay, ratio met. People confuse the ability to identify a problem with ability to fix it.
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Maybe the cleaner shouldn’t be earning less than half the national living wage?
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didn’t even read the rest, 10:1 pay ratio is the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard in my entire life. you could be a CEO, a cooperate lawyer, a top level surgeon, but you can’t earn over 120k because the part time cleaner earns 12k.
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@HyboreanCat @llwtydeer No CEO is worth their salt.
Fuck em.
Parasites paid bonuses for firing the staff that create the wealth.
You need re-educating, because it seems the state has warped your brain to worship capitalistic greed.
Fire the CEO's and the company could save hundreds of thousands.
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this man is genuinely the dumbest man in british politics. you redistribute through taxes not pay caps
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski will call for policies to end the "affordability crisis" tomorrow - The introduction of a 10:1 pay ratio, whereby the highest-paid employee earns no more than ten times the lowest-paid - Free school meals for all primary and secondary pupils - Universal energy bill support for households and stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs
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@nialljclarke @ItsTaz1989 @FUDdaily I haven't the energy to start a revolution and I'm not envious enough to want to take money from successful people.
But surely we could tap into the potential of slightly lazy, washed up but smart people seeking purpose.
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@nialljclarke @ItsTaz1989 @FUDdaily Too many quite smart people educated to be administrators of a system that doesn't need them, and in which they will not be elite.
As an overproduced elite, what are my (our?) options for doing useful work?
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Immigration is the most pressing issue, but it sits on top a bunch of other existential dangers:
- Internet-amplified polarisation (particularly between the sexes)
- lack of stable family formation & breakdown
- community breakdown
- elite overproduction
- energy
- state spending
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Gedankenexperiment
Dein Nachbar schenkt seinem Sohn 400.000 Euro.
Was ist dein „fairer Anteil“ daran?
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@deeharvey @dublin_damo Can you imagine taking any notice of what anyone else is eating or wearing on holiday and giving a shit at all??
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Have no time for snobs like this, what people choose to wear, eat or drink on their holiday is their own f*cking business.
Ginger Tucci@Ginger_Tucci
There’s no bigger ick than seeing a grown adult on holiday sporting a full football strip and having a full English breakfast. Gross. Eww. Can you just…. Not? Like why are you in another country without enjoying that countries culture and dressed like a 10 year old?
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@Arnie1421 @LittleLatvian1 This feels a bit Young Man v Middle-Aged Woman.
I hereby bow out.
My main tip for avoiding any breakfast ick: stay in bed.
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Wow don’t you dare wear what you want while eating breakfast 🥴 ! It gives old Ginge the ick 👍🏻
Ginger Tucci@Ginger_Tucci
There’s no bigger ick than seeing a grown adult on holiday sporting a full football strip and having a full English breakfast. Gross. Eww. Can you just…. Not? Like why are you in another country without enjoying that countries culture and dressed like a 10 year old?
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@Arnie1421 @LittleLatvian1 I thought the point of a full English on hols was that there would be no lunch?
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@LittleLatvian1 Who’s said they didn’t ? They had lunch and dinner left of that day ? Also why not let people eat and wear what they want ?
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@dublin_damo Totally.
A happy man having a break in the sun eating morning beans?
Good for him.
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Exactly this, don't expect everyone to share my tastes, I just like seeing people enjoying themselves, life is hard, people deserve a bit of happiness.
dee harvey@deeharvey
@dublin_damo I find both full English breakfasts (baked beans? Before noon??) and football strips distasteful, but people having fun on holidays doing their thing is lovely to witness. Unlike naked snobbery.
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The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile.
That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap.
That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel.
People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
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@Brenbyrn2 He puts in "business", "capital", and "multimillion" to make you sound evil to dimwitted people who think they are socialists.
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It’s been a long time since farmers were “an old fella running some sheep & growing some cabbage”. There are even less of us with “multimillion capital investments in heavy machinery”. Brian wears his ignorance as a badge of honour.
brian lucey@brianmlucey
The majority of people blockading the roads are not 'farmers' in the sense of an old fella running some sheep and growing a few cabbage. They are businessmen, with multimillion capital investments in heavy machinery. What they want is a sectoral handout.
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Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the middle class :(
Luke Robert Black 🌳@lukerobertblack
“Luxury unaffordable homes” but they’re actually small 3 bed flats with a balcony. London *needs* homes for the middle classes too - we cannot just have a city affordable only to those on benefits or those who can afford a Ferrari. It’s not a crime to be middle class, Zack.
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@thewreathwright You present no argument for any of these positions.
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It’s confusing—well, not confusing, I do understand why it happens, but it’s frustrating—that people present these points as though they disprove one another
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It seems straightforwardly correct that:
- many of Elon Musk’s companies do and have done an enormous amount of good for humanity
- Elon Musk is meaningfully responsible for those companies’ success
- Elon Musk is a contemptible and morally bankrupt individual on many levels
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@BoscoCode @Alt_Azn It was clear he did it and she fancied him and her whole revolting little "investigation" was a pretext for spending time with him and talking about him.
High status prison penpal.
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@Alt_Azn It was clear he committed the murder, and the transparent efforts to sow doubt didn't seem effective.
But they were.
He was portrayed as a kind of regular, all American kid in the podcast. Interesting to seem him roll out of prison in full ethnic garb, both him and his family.
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@Jaswanarth @LukeTryl What sentimental bollocks.
People who can't afford to give their own kids moments of wow and wonder are obviously going to resent and resist being forced to provide them for the children of strangers.
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@LukeTryl What intellectual bollox. It is about giving kids a day out and moments of wow and wonder.....
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The frustration of the squeezed middle is palpably rising and the risk of blunt UC cut offs for support whether for day trips, energy bills or pension credit for winter fuel allowance is that you actually end up undermining support for social democratic principles.
Michael Simmons@Simmons__
Is this fair?
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Girls shouldn’t have to carry alarms, change their routes, or “arm” themselves just to feel safe.
In this day and age, that isn’t empowerment - it’s a failure. Why is the burden still on them to prevent harm?
Girls deserve safety without conditions.
#ProtectGirls #WomensRights #EnoughIsEnough
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I wonder where Kate suggests we put the Ian Huntley or Levi Bellfields of this world?
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
This is Kate Nevens. Kate is a Green Party candidate for the Scottish Parliamentary elections. She is predicted to win. This is a video of Kate saying she wants to abolish prisons and the entire prison system. Yep. All prisons. ALL OF THEM. Do not let this woman into power.
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@JakeFitzsimons Not radical feminists.
They're the feminists pointing out that large numbers of single young men apart from their families have always been a danger to women.
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Radical feminists: "We know it's not all men but it could be any man and we don't know so we have to take precautions"
"Yeah that's smart"
Me: "I know it's not all refugees but it could be any and we don't know so we have to take precautions"
Radical feminists: "racist"
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