Donny

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.

Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:

And btw to the people that say "wut about da RAM?" - if you go to Microcenter right now you can get a 7500X3D bundle for $299 that comes with RAM and a Motherboard! This would run CIRCLES around the Steam Machine's CPU!!!

A.J. Brown’s knee injury history Brown has had various knee injuries over the last 4 years, when he (mistakenly) admitted having bilateral knee surgery at the end of the season, likely for meniscus issues. His new injury appears to be to the left knee, which appeared to be a possible MCL sprain. He will likely undergo an MRI.

Has anyone done a wellness check on the atheists since this dropped

This is Diana Russini tanking AJ’s value on February 3rd of this year. She said he was worth less than Jaylen waddle right here. The NYT paid her $1.5M to report stories man. What she said matters a lot. It’s equivalent to Shams in basketball.