Shiknobi

@PeterMcCormack Fuck you and your coffee shop

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

@astr0l0gyjunk Its a decision you make, in spite of circumstances a lot of the time. And time is the only thing we have. Enjoy the things you enjoy while you're here

How does everyone continue to be happy and go on when the past 5+ years has shown as that hard work does NOT pay off, being a terrible person is rewarded, & literally nothing matters ??

people go to their family??? when they are sad ???rely on them for support??? what the fuck???

it probably feels amazing as fuck to have the energy to be alive

In my brain there are bunch of niche facts where my social skills are supposed to be

Why do snooker commentators love spoiling other results man? Can you not just comment on the match you're fucking watching?

unfortunately most of my relationships that are not explicitly 100% platonic with like hard boundaries on sex usually devolve into “secret third thing” very quickly

If u in a dick eating competition and ur competitor is dj akademiks just kill yourself

can you please remove this spell you put on me

there is NO way

Delayed processing is like ohhh okay you don’t respect me- that’s what’s been happening here