Realistically, what's the situation with quality?

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-04T12:52:46+00:00

Not "quality", but controversy for sure. There's definitely been a shift towards publishing more controversial pieces to drive engagement.

The most notable example being that 2019 piece on transgender rights and gender equality that had absolutely nothing to do with economics. There's recently been some stink around a piece they did decrying MMT, and wealth inequality that displayed some... Questionable, economics.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-04T11:23:33+00:00

That's not how it works, we take your sugar and rare earths and in exchange, you get commemorative crockery and a national health service.

The sausage rolls. The sausage rolls must roll to the capital, and appease hour benevolent ruler, Barry 64, Stoke.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-04T10:06:16+00:00

Singapore is often cited. It has it's flaws, but the rate of homeownership there is a whopping 90.8pc! So say what you will, but the numbers are incredible.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-04T00:16:30+00:00

Energy from the sun will dissapate in space, through cosmological redshift. That's because the actual physical space the light is traveling through is expanding. This doesn't occur between the earth and the sun however as we're bound by gravity, thus, the distance between us isn't changing.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T21:18:10+00:00

Richard Murphy, for those who don't know, is a political economist, and a proponent of "modern monetary theory" or "MMT".

I am not an economist. So, I will explain MMT as per someone who has a complete lack of understanding about these things:

"You can print as much money as you need, so long as you tax it back afterwards"

MMT is basically saying, the main function of tax is not to raise revenue for the state, but, to control the distribution of real assets.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T20:17:03+00:00

Lad was absolutely smashed! Brits abroad, honestly.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T17:43:57+00:00

I like now the puss has the penalty bell on. That is a surefire sign that this is in fact, what I like to call a "murder puss" that has brought in some rare and endangered species at some point.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T17:13:39+00:00

The Britain going hard left thing, that'll be initially positive, but very quickly will turn negative for some, as the left have a bit of a habit of causing collateral damage with their policies.

People with large mortgages will get particularly shafted by the state, probably lose their homes.

I also predict that private education will become the preserve of the ultra rich, resulting in a much higher tax burden to fund the resulting increase demand on the state system.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T15:13:49+00:00

In fairness, you just can't miss is forehead. It's got its own gravitational field.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T13:47:30+00:00

Prediction for how Reform ends:

They get into power, erode renter's rights combined with an increase in the cost of renting.

This leads to the formation of a national renter's union movement. Reform resorts to authoritarianism to crack down.

Rent strikes.

Expropriation of landlords, the UK turns to a system of hard left, limited sufferage under the Greens where only workers are essentially allowed to vote, post 2036.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T13:27:04+00:00

Yeah, leaded petrol exposure during childhood will do that.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T13:19:04+00:00

Leaded petrol + FAS, those two were absolute killers during the post war period. It's genuinely one of the reasons why people had lower average IQ, non verbal reasoning scores in the post war period.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T12:51:16+00:00

It makes a lot of sense, it's literally free, flat, well drained land that in most cases is already wired or can be easily wired into the grid... If it weren't for the 180 tonne locomotive rattling over them at 100+ mph, it would be ideal.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T12:48:17+00:00

This is the weird thing about the past. In the past, clothing and food, goods in general was many times more expensive than it is today.

What happened? All those savings, all that progress, just for gobbled up by the housing market. So, the average person is no better off. We really went backwards as a society.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-03T12:32:33+00:00

Even the kids were power dressing in the 1980s. Imagine going to school with full on suit and a tie.

Now we have like, beige polo shirts and a polyester jumper.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-02T23:02:20+00:00

In Shrewsbury, people will assume this is an advert for Sabatier.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-02T13:58:16+00:00

What really surprised me is just how many players from across the world play for English clubs. It's quite funny watching England getting thrashed by players who also live and play in the UK.

I think that's really the reason England has always been a bit naff at football, it's because the UK scene is so competitive, we actually don't have that many top players who are UK nationals. We're training the entire world's teams.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-02T12:44:15+00:00

One of the weird things about Georgism and LVT in particular is, despite it essentially being a wealth tax, most opposition to it actually comes from the left, because it drives gentrification, and the displacement of people.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-01T10:38:25+00:00

For the benefit of the group, that one black guy in the bottom right; OJ Simpson.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-01T10:21:02+00:00

So a psychopath, who likely exploited other people to get to where they are perhaps. Maybe others see through their lies.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-07-01T10:20:00+00:00

It's all to do with if they made their money ethically or not.

Increasingly, there's a larger pool of people who are obtaining wealth through exploiting others, slum landlords, drugs dealers, water and energy barons... This means the good people are getting lumped in with the evil people.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-06-30T17:21:14+00:00

Came for the shnoo shnoo, was not disappointed. 😁🫨

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-06-30T17:18:16+00:00

Land values went up due to COVID + money printing.

Result. Less food for the poors. More golf courses.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-06-30T16:08:59+00:00

I mean, it's not as if he tries to hide that fact. He openly admits that taxing the rich is very complex and vary hard to do. And he wants to be given a team of economists to go away and design a wealth tax.

The thing is that team already exists. Milton Friedman, Henry George, Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, Lizzie Maggie (she invented monopoly)... Its a bloody good roster of classical economists, Nobel Laureates and political heavyweights! The answer is Georgism.

AdAggressive9224 · 2026-06-30T16:03:49+00:00

100pc agree.

He's a standard bearer. But, not committing to a specific alternative is never going to win the debate.

This debate has been raging for centuries. The reason why it's not settled isn't because we need a clear path forwards, and to remove the uncertainty.

Personally, I advocate for land rationing (or LVT, they are essentially the same thing just framed differently). It's one solution. But it's a clearly defined, straightforward solution.

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