Henry P. Thompson

@spookggb @BladeoftheS @SocialistPlus The average worker does not supply the goods being distributed, stored, marketed and sold. The level of investment and capital to run an enterprise of constantly stocked shelves is infinitely more expensive, complicated and valuable than manning the till or stocking the shelf.

@BladeoftheS @SocialistPlus Sorry but it doesn't work like that. The only, only thing billionaires care about is making more money even though they will never be able to spend it all. Fuck the working class, who are actually earning the vast profits for minimum wage....fuck them.

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

@terriyakilol @MarkRPellegrino Entertainment has its own intrinsic value. It’s subjective what the value itself is. TikTok famous people making tons of money for dumb crap is not my taste but to someone somewhere it’s worth it. I’m no more made at them then I am for anything else people do. Each their own.

@EzeasPi @MarkRPellegrino all of that is correct and fair but im getting paidto sit and record videos and do zooms is literally just passing go given that theres no real material value only entertaining

When socialists ‘engage’ their only recourse is to smear and mischaracterize your perspective. Cause they can’t win by logic or a rational ethics at all. Let me unpack the basic concept for reason resistant , ethics resistant thugs like this punk. When you tell someone that your living is your responsibility… infantile socialists pretend you don’t want them to live.. as if there are only two choices, neither of which involve responsibility for your OWN life: either you supply them with a life or they die. What a degrading and infantilizing and cannibalistic ethics… no wonder socialists are in a perpetual state of neurotic rage. Tell me folks if you think compelling some to pay someone more than the productive value of their labor is decent. Or if the person using the force to acquire more than he’s earned is the moral course and why.

@terriyakilol @MarkRPellegrino I like that he engages and gives his opinion. No one was called scum that I am aware of. Though anyone can aspire for higher wages, the market dictates median value for work - I work hard for minimum wage myself. It is what it is. And being entrepreneurial is not passing go.

@EzeasPi @MarkRPellegrino henry please explain what you were complimenting mark for on this thread besides arguing that laborers asking for a higher wage are scum and are gonna ruin the economy while sitting around collecting money for passing go

@PeterMcCormack I lost my business a few years ago. I work for a massive company now as a cog in the machine. My work load has become a huge burden because we cut staff and don’t hire anymore because the company can’t justify the budget. 1000s of employees. But as demand increases workers don’t.

A simple message to the silly socialists. You’re upset by businesses telling you that they will fail with the minimum wage increase. You’re telling business owners silly things like if you can’t pay the minimum wage then you don’t have a viable business. I want to make this easier to understand, because if you mean what you say, you want people to have jobs and earn a liveable wage. So listen, businesses fail for all kinds of reasons, mainly because they are unprofitable. We are seeing a wave of business closures at the moment because of the compounding costs from the state against a cost of living crisis. To make a cup of coffee profitable it has to eat a lot costs: - 20% VAT (the inputs can’t be claimed back) - Business rates (a tax before you earn) - Rising NI costs - Employment rights load - Rising energy costs - Inflation All these are imposed by the state. There is also a time tax with all the accounting, HR and regularity requirements which impose cost of consultants and time costs to ensure compliance, distracting owners from operating their businesses. Then there are the other normal costs. A business owner needs to make a profit else the business fails. If the business fails there are less jobs and lower tax receipts. If there are less jobs then public services crumble and welfare requirements increase. This is a compounding problem and what leads to the downward spiral of a country. So… where does the money come from if there are less jobs. The government borrows it, that increase in the money supply drives more inflation, making life more expensive for the people you want to help. Some who now don’t have the job they once had. So what now? What is your plan? I get it, you don’t really have one, this is what has happened to every socialist state, this is how a country goes from rich to poor. We have no divine right to be a wealthy nation and can certainly lose that status. So this is your challenge, can you accept society has a distribution of wealth which means there are rich and poor or would you rather everyone was poorer as long as there are no rich. That’s what socialists tend to want, though I have a secret for you, you can’t get rid of people being rich. I know you think profit is ugly, but the profit motive is what creates business and jobs. So anyway. I’m going to keep promoting proper economics because that’s how a nation becomes prosperous and prosperity leads to a net better outcome for all. This does mean I am going to have to make fun of your stupid socialist ideas. Good luck, read a book and stop being a dumb dumb.

@terriyakilol @MarkRPellegrino I just wanted to pay the dude a compliment. I expect nothing back from it. Not everything is self serving “scumdaddy”.

@EzeasPi @MarkRPellegrino oh look another capitalist bootlicker who wants to be the crab in the bucket in to make it to the top instead of wanting all crabs out of the bucket

@DenisKursakov I don’t get how everyone is pinning this on PlayStation. They need to agree to local laws. The problem is the UK wants to control and spy on all citizens. Every step is one closer to total control. And removal of freedoms.

do you understand what just happened to PlayStation users in the UK.. No ID. No face scan. No full access. > people are already arguing this is a "soft digital ID system" > others say it’s necessary for child safety and fraud prevention critics point out a bigger issue: > once identity becomes mandatory for access… > it stops being optional infrastructure > it becomes a requirement to exist online at all so now the debate isn’t about games anymore. it’s about who gets to stay anonymous on the internet.

@Black_D_Gamer1 Because you can bypass this stuff with a vpn, they’re pushing to ban VPNs in the uk. This is how bad the government wants to control and spy here.

@Black_D_Gamer1 Many people have complained about the uk online safety act when it was announced several years ago. Then again when it required id for Porn. Then Reddit. Then when pushing x to add it. Now PlayStation. It goes on and on. No one cares. Because the uk is already sunk.

I want to really know why this age verification shit, isn't massive news across the board. EVERY social media influencer should be talking about this en-masse, because it doesn't just affect one state, or country! Damn the algorithm! Some things are WORTH fighting against!

@KaiKai2492 Every service in the uk will require this soon enough. You already need this to access sections of Reddit, porn sites. Etc. companies don’t want to be fined but don’t want to remove services from the uk. The government is crazy. Aiming for a future where every citizen is tracked

This is fucking crazy. Dystopian as hell, asking for government ID or biometric data to use a PlayStation that you paid for and there’s people in the replies really acting like this is okay. People have really been conditioned to just not care about their privacy I guess, or that they don’t own the things they pay for. And no, if you think Sony deletes any of this data you’re out of your mind.

@zermatist Top talent leaving and a general apathy/hatred of Jews/shapiro.

How exactly do you lose 85% of your audience in a year? Isn't that kind of unheard of? Did the company just stop paying for fake audience, or did people just decide they really hate his ass that badly all of a sudden?

@GTASixJoker Crimson desert just laughing

The GTA 6 map has officially leaked, the biggest of all time.

@forallcurious Not ling disease!!!! I happen to like my lings!!!!

#BREAKING🚨: Vaping has officially been linked to rare and irreversible ling disease

@PeterMcCormack The economically illiterate are the new ruling class. Ordering their Amazon and Uber Eats complaining about the rich and living in a socialist dreamworld. This Peter guy has empirical evidence of running a business as do I. Staffing costs are half the hardest part along with tax

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.

@Ravenismeee Men are the best and the only reason why we have to keep them together and keep the kids together and we don’t need them anymore because they don’t deserve them anymore so I guess we can keep it up to the end and we will get through it

Misandry check. Let your phone complete the sentence: “Men are…”

@Sulaiman_alty Him good music much loved fans rejoice

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 yrs old… how someone dead since the 90s is still dominating streams in 2026???

@ForgiatoBlow47 Yes. Bonus points if they are a stranger and not a sleepy family member who you forgot was spending the weekend over.

SHOULD YOU BE ALLOWED TO SHOOT A PERSON WHO HAS BROKEN INTO YOUR HOUSE, EVEN IF THEY'RE UNARMED?

@ElaineSstark Fantastic episode.

El episodio de Los Simpson con Michael Jackson que Disney+ decidió borrar de la historia. En el primer episodio de la Temporada 3 (S03E01), el Rey del Pop prestó su voz al personaje de Leon Kompowsky, un paciente psiquiátrico que cree ser él mismo. Por razones contractuales, apareció en los créditos bajo el seudónimo de John Jay Smith. Jackson era tan fan de la serie que coescribió y coprodujo el éxito “Do the Bartman”, que llegó al número 1 en las listas del Reino Unido en 1991. Aunque él grabó todos los diálogos hablados de Leon, las partes cantadas —como la famosa “Happy Birthday, Lisa”— fueron interpretadas por el imitador Kipp Lennon, porque su sello discográfico no le permitía cantar para otros proyectos en ese momento. Este episodio fue retirado de circulación en 2019 y hoy se considera “perdido” o “prohibido”: no está en Disney+ ni en las retransmisiones oficiales. Cuéntame, ¿viste este episodio?

@k1rallik The online safety garbage is not PlayStations fault. The 30 day drm was blown out of proportion. There were advanced warnings for the price rises. PlayStation is imperfect and frustrating (ps5 exclusives, backward compatibility, etc) but don’t get it twisted with corruption

> be PlayStation > exist only because Nintendo backstabbed Sony. 1991 > PS1: first 100M console ever. you're welcome > PS2: 158M sold. still the GOAT > US military: 1,760 PS3s linked into a supercomputer > cheaper than real hardware > PS3: $599. "work more hours to afford it" > PSN 2011: 77M accounts hacked. plain text passwords > E3 2013: made Xbox look like a war crime with one video > PS4: 1M units on day one > 2026: PS5 now $649. no warning > hidden DRM on all digital games. said nothing > UK users: face or passport or no voice chat > three scandals. one month. same PR statement The console born from betrayal is starting to look a lot like the one that betrayed it.

@UHHHHHHHHH_MAX @JuanSotoIsKing @treyton8402 I appreciate your intended goal. Not engaging with something is not the same as endorsing it. Horrible things are happening in the Middle East right now. I can advocate for what I think is right or wrong there but I’m fortunate to not be directly involved.

@EzeasPi @JuanSotoIsKing @treyton8402 forget the button for a second please I'm talking about your stated reasoning, and applying it to other applicable scenarios to (hopefully) get across to you that following this hyper-individualist logic would have you supporting horrific atrocities simply to avoid personal risk

I didn’t even realize until today that literally everyone who choses red has to say a three paragraph essay cope about why “erm actually according to game theory the red button is most optimal…” like just be honest and say you’re a pussy and don’t want to die lol