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Guys, we have to want more for ourselves. It’s okay to want more. £50k salary is objectively not ‘an insane amount of money’ c’mon.
Asa@Asa97875363
I just sparked a debate in the UK for saying £50k is an insane amount of money. Which it is. Average salaries in this country are like £38k after tax and NI. That's like £2500 roughly. I don't know anyone on over £40k. But £50k a month after tax and NI. Still seems a lot. That's £3200 odd! I'm only on just over £2k!
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"Data centers use all the water" is "vaccines cause autism" for people with graduate degrees
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replying to steamy messages from a very sexy man:
yes that sounds great you should do that to me thank you very much yes
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niche typing pet peeves
- brought vs bought - you BROUGHT something to the event. you BOUGHT a new shirt.
- balled vs bawled - you BAWLED your eyes out. you BALLED up your fists
- "ya'll" - IT'S A CONTRACTION OF "YOU ALL" IT'S Y'ALL. PLEASE
- ce*soring - censor the VOWELS
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The degree to which There Are No Jobs in the UK is absolutely insane
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Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.
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Sound advice from David Lammy to David Lammy
David Lammy@DavidLammy
Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea. The Government need to pull their finger out and acquire empty public buildings across the country to make sure these can happen in a way that is safe.
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But the top 1% of UK taxpayers now pay 33% of all income tax
Everyone screaming tax the rich, but let that sink in
That’s just 500,000 people contributing £93.8 BILLION in the 2024 tax year
A £150k earner pays £53,460 in tax
A £25k earner pays £2,486
It takes 21 people on £25k to contribute what one person on £150k does
So when Labour talk about ‘making the rich pay their fair share’, they already are
Keep hammering high earners, entrepreneurs & business owners, & they’ll KEEP leaving
Dubai, Monaco, Portugal are all rolling out the red carpet
And the budget looks like it will only get worse
The UK doesn’t need higher taxes, it needs spending wastage cut, better incentives to build & invest & a full cultural shift AWAY from the politics of envy
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I seldom agree with rightwingers but when I do its about architecture
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
New towns should be built like this. We used to do what architects would today consider to be ghastly pastiche so well. Bring it back.
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people really, really, REALLY want there to be a downside to ozempic because they have zero-sum peasant mindset and think that there is a limited quantity of "good things" out there
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
Ozempic will probably the invention of the decade, even if AI is where all the money is going We just solved one of the biggest problems in the entire world, overnight, with no drawbacks! It's insane??
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Not a single runway has been built in Britain since 2001, when Manchester Airport's second runway was completed.
Not building a single new runway anywhere in the country in a quarter century is a rejection of growth and an embrace of decline.
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