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@foluswago Tbf if you want to be chartered in the UK you need a Masters so 4 years but yeah still quick compared to some countries

couldn’t explain how sad i was when i found out Civil Engineering was a 3-year course in the UK.

@Balociszar_I @RadicalShibaLP @cinnamontoastk I'm not a freak of nature I'm consistent If 10% is the blue threshold I still pick red At 50% I pick red At 90% I pick red At 99.5% I pick red Because I don't want to introduce danger which only exists when picking blue How about you? When do you change your mind?

@_StoicJoe_ @RadicalShibaLP @cinnamontoastk It’s statistically impossible everyone picks red more people picking blue is far more likely and every poll shows that you’re justifying being a freak of nature for no reason

This red button/blue button discourse is wild. 100% red saves everyone no consequence 51% of blue saves everyone no consequence 51% red kills all of blue but they frame it like its blues fault they had to kill them even though red is the only choice that causes anyone to die.

@annaroseridgway If you can't afford to pay a living wage and still make money then you don't have a good business One more time If you can't afford to pay a living wage and still make money then you don't have a good business Min wage & tax free income threshold can both rise to limit burden

- Youth unemployment is 15.8%, with 713,000 16-24-year-olds out of work. - Young people rely on lower-paid entry-level jobs to gain experience and build themselves up. - Price this up too sharply, and fewer firms hire young, inexperienced workers. Another case of 'populism with green-tinted glasses'. Simple economics overlooked for clips, clicks and votes.

@ianbremmer Who could have predicted that closing the door on EU migration would require opening the door to other parts of the world to fill labour gaps & that this opening would likely be mismanaged & cause a lot of angst? Certainly not 48% of us who said Brexit wouldn't fix anything 🫠

brexit: who knew?

@JustinMacmahan Historically men worked & did this job, women didn't. It's become an increasingly expensive & difficult industry to enter. Thus the remaining trainers today are typically men. However, some have passed their stables down to daughters or female employees slowly changing the tide

I’m completely ignorant when it comes to horse training, but I can’t think of one advantage to being a male vs female. How has a female trainer never won?

@DKing19951 @camharless @BobMurphyEcon This is the true intrigue of the problem, blue voters see it as danger is imminent we must try to save, red voters see it as nobody is in danger and people are choosing to create it. I'm interested to know what causes this difference in interpretation

@camharless @BobMurphyEcon That was not the nature of buttons. The true nature is that everyone is already put on a vote, they're already on the train track. It's not a matter of step on the train track to stop it, it's figuring out if more than half of you will stay on it in case others don't leave.

.@BobMurphyEcon I thought you’d appreciate this

@CaycGokalp11083 @cinnamontoastk Press red if you want to live, let people press blue who want to die, no shame, it's their choice Everyone is a red button pusher at heart it's just a question of at what threshold do you begin trying to signal your "moral superiority" If you needed 95% blue are you still blue?

@cinnamontoastk when in the world history ever a poll that decided future of humans in a place has had %100 rate in one side? you are definitely sacrificing people by pressing red. People aren't rational if that were the case everything would be predictable.

@RadicalShibaLP @cinnamontoastk But the red button is the one where nothing happens? Everyone who pressed red is unaffected and everyone CAN press red so nothing will happen to anyone. The blue button is putting your life on the line for NOTHING, just press red and we can all go home.

@risversed You can use the word perfume as a verb. Meaning to fill the surrounding area with a pleasant smell. The bakery perfumes the street with the aroma of freshly baked bread.

just realized english doesn’t have a word for smells nice like you have stink or reeks for smells bad, but nothing for a good smell

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 I agree we should regulate medical profiteering and landlords more aggressively to make the cost of living closer to... The cost of living - instead of the cost of living plus someone else's greed

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 The problem is you're blaming the wage not being a "living" one on the wage itself. Why make that assumption? Why isn't it that healthcare and housing should be cheaper and that's the problem instead of the wage? Think deeper.

How is it 65% of our population are so economically illiterate?

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Ahh so you want some regulation just not "too much" but where do you draw the line? Should all roads be private & tolled, or is road tax okay? Is slavery good business, or is a min wage okay? Is exploitation shrude, or is a regulator okay? The "smallest possible state" is none🤦‍♂️

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Go make this argument to the anarchocapitalists, I push for the smallest possible state. The difference between you and me is I only use force when I see no other way out, I know it's inmoral to use the state. I would use power that I do NOT WANT.

@PicklesJames2 @StoicRocky @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Of course there's balance this other guy is just a free market loon I personally think 10x is too low but that a limit is needed A club that brings in billions but can't pay a living wage to the dinner lady is shameful. Also last I checked the players were employees not execs

@_StoicJoe_ @StoicRocky @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Surely there is a balance to be had. The argument being made is that the proposal by the greens will do more damage than good. Will footballers have their pay limited to 10x the lowest paid in the club?

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Regulations protect you from bad actors In a 100% free market I can offer to sell you ice cream cheaper than my competition because I use slaves You can decide freely to do business with me I can send you tubs of water instead of ice cream because.. Who are going to complain to?

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Unregulated market != illegal market. A capitalist unregulated market also includes NO VIOLENCE, including from statists like you that use the state for the "common good" and can't stop messing people's lives up. USA housing costs, healthcare costs, etc. is the state's fault.

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 If the labour market is completely unregulated then people would have slaves. A free market incentivises cheats, liars and violence just look at unregulated markets like the drug trade. Humans have been regulating markets for thousands of years, please educate yourself properly

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Nobody said they were perfectly elastic but in most places when you leave it to the market (you don't regulate) unemployment sits very very low. So you can move, it's only in places where minimum wages and other costs ruin employment that it's not elastic enough to leave your job

@drhingram Noun* it has to be a noun! You absolute pinecone - insult You absolute jumping - gibberish This is the way.

Choose any word in the dictionary and prefix it with ‘you absolute”

@omgsidewalks Spend good money on things that separate you from the ground, it's hard, cold and uncomfortable. Get good shoes, get a good mattress these things sound small but they make a huge difference to your quality of life.

I'm 22. Please recommend to me oddly specific life tips. No general “surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible please.

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Ah yes the assumption that all economic relationships are perfectly elastic... Who's financially illiterate now? 😂 What's wrong with directors being rewarded by the company's performance? Why not incentivise good leadership? Why let the top collect grand rewards regardless?

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Yes, if it's their company they will decide what's their fair share. If they're getting paid too much the workers will move on to a higher paying job, it's a normal market mechanism.

@StoicRocky @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Most companies are private so the board of directors is often mostly controlled by the owners who unsurprisingly will vote through paying themselves the entire company's cash reserves if they want to. They aren't worth 50x the average employee if the company is failing

@_StoicJoe_ @PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 The shareholders determine what the fair share is, not a random eceonomically illiterate idiot.

@PicklesJames2 @PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 You've asked a leading question There's no guarantee that capping exec pay would cause talent flight Pay your admin staff 35k & the boss can take home 350k a year. Plenty of room for growth. Execs should earn through raising the share price not skimming more than the fair share

@PensionsMonkey @JuliaHB1 Because its the way the question is asked. If instead it said "would you support capping of earning potential in companies knowing that it would lead to an exodus of talent from this country?" the response would be entirely different.

@TheRabbitHole @elonmusk Chart has the year 2000 twice with 5 years in between that drastically pump up the total on the right hand side of the chart. Can't be trusted. Take those 5 years out and it's lower than the 1900's peak today. Check your data before using it to make a claim.

@elonmusk South Africa has a lot of race laws to cut

If South Africa doesn’t change its super racist Apartheid 2.0 laws, the country must be sanctioned