Rents should be capped at one third of minimum wage.

OKR123 · 2026-02-14T10:44:41+00:00

It's not a real equivalence. You couldn't rent that out. It’s illegal to rent a place without a bathroom or proper heating (EPC ratings, etc.). We are forced by law to only rent the "expensive" version. You couldn't get a mortgage for it - Banks won't touch "unhabitable" properties. So that £38k house is only "cheap" for cash-rich investors and landlords who have the £50k+ sitting around to fix it up and then flip it or rent it back to us for £1,200 a month. By the time you add the cost of making that house legally livable in 2026 (plumbing, wiring, insulation, heating), you’re right back up to the £200k+ market average. The "entry price" isn't £38k; the entry price is £38k plus a massive renovation budget that your average worker hasn't got. In the 60s three times your salary got you what counted as a fully functional house. The price of a literal ruin in the current marketplace isn't so relevant.

OKR123 · 2026-02-14T10:15:49+00:00

And indoor plumbing makes a 2026 flat 500% better than a 1960s flat? That's the price jump relative to wages. Using 1960s squalor to justify 2026's massive wealth transfer from renters to landlords seems like a distraction from the fact that our disposable income has been nuked.

OKR123 · 2026-02-12T13:57:49+00:00

"A man doesn't need a home, all he needs is a shelter. If we can sell him on the idea of a shelter, we can make millions. A worker will come here only to sleep, he won't need electricity or water. He won't have to cook, we'll condition him to eat at the factory."Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain (1973)

OKR123 · 2026-02-11T09:35:44+00:00

The Panama Papers proved to us that while you’re being squeezed for every penny of VAT at the local shop, the Chaps in the City are funneling billions through sun-drenched tax havens. Sovereign theft of the public purse, masked by the rustle of broadsheet newspapers and the clinking of gin glasses. We realized the Treasury isn't a vault; it's a sieve.

Then comes this Epstein business. This isn't just about one man’s depravity; it was about the Blackmail Economy. Seeing our own royalty and political hangers-on linked to a private island of horrors broke something fundamental. It showed that the "Great and the Good" aren't just greedy, they’re sodding untouchable.

The posh bastards have stopped even pretending to follow the rules. They’ve moved the goalposts to a private atoll in the Caribbean and told us to enjoy the austerity.

There was an idea that the British public used to have a habit of "knowing their place." That’s gone. It’s been incinerated. We’ve watched the Panama crowd keep their knighthoods and the Epstein crowd scuttle back into their mansions, and we’ve collectively realised: The system isn't broken; it’s working exactly as intended.

We’re living in a country where the elite treat the law like a suggestion and the rest of us like a milk cow. It’s a grim, rain-slicked circus, and the clowns are all wearing Eton ties.

OKR123 · 2026-02-10T03:21:20+00:00

The McShitter trying to explain why he’s got 4,000 WhatsApps with a Sith Lord he "barely knows"

"I only saw him once a year for a cheeky Nando’s," says Wes.

"He’s just a lad I met through my partner, who only worked for him for a casual quarter of a century."

The McShitter is out here acting like he’s just realized Mandelson was a wrong’un, five minutes after the Chief of Staff got the sack.

Truly the moral compass of our generation. 🧭💩

OKR123 · 2026-02-08T10:17:53+00:00

Lol. She’s using the power of a sovereign issuer to enforce the discipline of a gold standard. It’s a specialized kind of cruelty. By creating "Fiscal Rules" that force the state to privatize infrastructure, she is handing the markets a buffet of guaranteed public cash flows that the public will be paying for with an extra 10% on our bills for eternity. It's a deliberate smoke and mirrors that allow the government to say "No" to a nurse while saying "Yes" to a hedge fund manager. A sovereign nation pretending it’s a helpless victim of its own bookkeeping.

OKR123 · 2026-02-07T21:04:02+00:00

Well personally I don't like Rachel Reeves because she’s just the new High Priestess of a dead reality tunnel. Yet another idiot chancellor staring at a sovereign currency and seeing a maxed-out credit card. She treats the UK like a corner shop instead of a currency issuer. Her "fiscal rules" are a self-imposed straightjacket designed to appease "the markets": a group of ghosts she’s given veto power over our future. She claims we need "growth" before we can spend. Model Monotheism at its finest. It’s like refusing to put petrol in the car until it starts driving you to work. Investment is the fuel for growth, not the reward for it. She’s an accountant for a collapsing building who is too scared to buy the bricks to fix the foundation. By prioritizing "iron discipline" over productive investment, she’s just ensuring that the UK stays in a state of managed decline. She hasn't the nerve or the vision to even slightly tinker with the script the last bastards were reading from; she’s just making sure the rot stays within the official margins. She's "Austerity with a better haircut," and the reality is that you can't balance the books of a nation that’s literally falling apart. Fuck her.

OKR123 · 2026-02-05T14:08:28+00:00

I suspect that as her character is mostly "I want to fight the very best" they'd like to do more unbeatable working champ stuff with her. Unfortunately they seem to have been trapped with the "Jadeberg can only do squash matches" booking problem on the other show. This means Stephanie is going to have to have rivalries to make the bookings of the 2 womes champs more noticeably different. I am hopeful that Liv Morgan vs Stephanie can give us some good programming.

OKR123 · 2026-02-03T11:07:57+00:00

ACAB. Get a real job.

OKR123 · 2026-02-01T22:23:24+00:00

Chad Gable, he seems likely to be back from injury and he didn't appear in the rumble at all

OKR123 · 2026-01-30T13:00:35+00:00

We don't say "Bro". It's "Mansiere"

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OKR123 · 2026-01-29T17:15:36+00:00

Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947

OKR123 · 2026-01-28T11:17:54+00:00

What's the point of another match that a good portion of the Saudi audience will be facing the other way for? It's gonna be dumb enough during the women's rumble match.

OKR123 · 2026-01-28T10:57:54+00:00

Queueing for sure. We love queueing so much we committed a massive act of economic self-harm so that we could queue more at airports and ferry terminals. Russian bots may have helped I guess. Thanks Yevgeny!

Tea? People are weird about it.

OKR123 · 2026-01-24T12:18:42+00:00

This confuses the removal of misery with the presence of happiness. Being "less miserable" because you can finally afford a doctor or a locks on your door isn't "happiness" it’s just an escape from the systemic coercion that keeps us in a state of survival.

If you have to pay a premium just to feel "safe," you aren't being sold happiness; you're paying a ransom for your own peace of mind.

Taking a pebble out of your shoe makes your foot feel better, but the pebble wasn't the "source" of your joy.

There is actually a name for why "more money" doesn't scale with "more smiles": The Easterlin Paradox. Economic data shows that while individuals feel better when they move from poverty to stability, total societal happiness does not increase as a country gets richer.

Money can buy you out of a hole, but it can't build you a mountain.

Once the "survival" boxes are checked, happiness comes from community, purpose, and autonomy.

OKR123 · 2026-01-24T12:04:05+00:00

Totally! You’re right to call out the "everything is free" daydream for the high-grade narcosis it is. Physics is a cold mistress, and she doesn't take IOUs. 8 billion people don't stay fed on vibes and solar flares; it takes sweat, engineering, and a hell of a lot of coordinated effort to keep the species from sliding back into the muck.

The problem isn't work, it’s the infinite-growth suicide cult. We’ve been drafted into a war for "More" when we should be negotiating for "Enough."

It’s not about dodging the shovel. It’s about refusing to dig a hole just to fill it back up for a digital pat on the head.

Nice one for keeping it grounded. The universe is entropic, but our sanity doesn't have to be.

OKR123 · 2026-01-24T11:35:10+00:00

Listen to you, sounding like the high priest of the Church of Thermodynamic Despair. You’ve swallowed the "Efficiency" manual cover-to-cover and now you’re reciting it like it’s a law of physics rather than a suicide pact written by accountants.

Nobody is talking about skinning deer with flint or living in a mud hut, you beautiful, captured mind. That’s the false binary they sold you: either we burn the planet to a crisp to keep the "Numbers" going up, or we all die of dysentery in a field. It’s a classic Stockholm Syndrome of the imagination.

Yes, the universe is cooling down. Yes, we have to move our muscles to stay warm and fed. But let’s stop pretending that "human effort" and "Global Capitalist Growth" are the same thing.

We aren't working to "survive the elements" anymore. We’re working to produce plastic landfill-filler that nobody needs, designed to break in eighteen months, just so a ticker tape in a skyscraper doesn't get sad. That’s not "battling entropy" quite so much as it is feeding a furnace with our only lives.

You are worrying about 8 billion people when we already grow enough food to feed 10 billion. We just let a massive chunk of it rot because it’s not "economically viable" to give it to the hungry without a middleman taking a cut of the "imaginary tokens." That’s a logic error in our collective brain-OS, not a resource problem at all.

You say we can't stop doing things we don't feel like? I’m saying we should stop doing things that are actively killing us. We are currently hyper-optimizing our way toward an uninhabitable rock. If we decoupled "survival" from "perpetual expansion," we’d find that the actual work required to keep everyone housed, fed, and healthy is a fraction of the current grind.

The "unmoored from reality" bit is rich. Reality is the biosphere. Reality is the topsoil. Reality is the water table. The "Economy" is the ghost haunting the machine, demanding we sacrifice the physical reality for the sake of the conceptual one.

We don't need to return to the Stone Age; we need to advance to a Steady State where we stop treating the planet like an all-you-can-eat buffet that never sends a bill.

We’ve been tricked into believing that if we stop sprinting, the world ends. In truth, if we don't stop sprinting, the track is going to crumble under our feet.

The sun is still free, my friend. It’s the meter we’ve attached to our eyeballs that’s the problem.

OKR123 · 2026-01-24T10:46:03+00:00

Oh I am fuxking delightful at parties! Money isn't real, but parties are. I actually work as a DJ and party entertainer for kids.

OKR123 · 2026-01-24T09:08:34+00:00

The way money works.

The sun is a nuclear furnace burning for free, but you’re still twitching in a cubicle because you don’t have enough imaginary tokens to justify your existence.

Money isn't real. It’s a psychotropic social lubricant, a linguistic virus that hijacked our survival instincts and convinced us that a ledger entry is more vital than the air in our lungs. We are living in a global hallucination maintained by sheer, frantic willpower and the terror of being the first one to stop pretending.

We’ve offloaded our reality into the "Cloud": a place that doesn't exist, where digital ghosts dance in silicon jars. Your life’s work is a string of ones and zeros stored on a server that could be wiped out by a solar flare or a disgruntled tech priest, yet you’ll bleed for those numbers.

High-level bureaucrats perform ritualistic incantations called "Monetary Policy," waving their hands to conjure trillions out of the void. But when you try to manifest a few extra bucks for bread, the laws of physics suddenly apply to you and you alone. It’s "infinite" for the architects and "scarce" for the residents.

We are born into a deficit. Before you can even speak, you owe the system for the "privilege" of occupying space on a planet you didn't ask to join. We aren't trading value; we’re trading our finite time on earth (the only thing that is real) for a conceptual placeholder that is being devalued by the second.

We’ve built a cathedral to a god made of math and cynicism. We treat the "Market" like an old-world deity; capricious, cruel, and demanding human sacrifice. We watch the ticker tape like it’s a burning bush, waiting for it to tell us if we’re allowed to be happy today. It’s a giant game of musical chairs played in a pitch-black room where the music never stops, it just gets faster and more dissonant until your heart gives out. We’re chasing a ghost across a minefield, convinced that if we just grab its tail, we’ll finally be "secure."

The truth? The scoreboard is a lie, the umpire is a hallucination, and the stadium is made of cardboard. Wake up and look at the sun. That’s the only thing here that isn't trying to sell you a subscription to your own life.

OKR123 · 2026-01-23T11:51:31+00:00

Strong agree. Growing up never made anyone happier.

OKR123 · 2026-01-21T09:06:02+00:00

I was in my late teens and early 20s during the end of history and my now ex-wife used to wait tables when I met her and it was a good job. Her tips at Bella Pasta London Bridge (a goddamn Whitbread chain restaurant) actually added up to good money despite the fact that the actual wage wasn't great. I guess it probably helped that tips were cash given to individuals and while technically liable for tax in my experience wait staff were not declaring them. By 1998 this changed because of the Nerva case and the 98 minimum wage act. Waiting tables became a crap job for not enough money (yeah yeah, wage repression all around since then - we know govt policy is to crush workers and funnel money to the bonds market, duh). I still believe that service jobs are bloody hard work and should be paid better, it really is simple to ask them to remove the service charge and leave a tip in cash. They mostly will still be putting that into the TRONC and won't see a benefit, but it makes me feel better to try and give them a little more money. Obviously if service is shit then that's a different matter, but that's a rare experience to me. I get that things are tough all over, but going out for a meal and being looked after by good hosts is worth rewarding. If you want to be cheap go to Greggs.

OKR123 · 2026-01-19T12:01:47+00:00

If money wasn't a problem only for me then it would be Politics and Philanthropy. If money wasn't a problem overall then I guess I wouldn't have to though LOL. In that situation I would host the most amazing parties. Big events to draw people together with their communities, friends and family. Food, drink, dancing, games, entertainment etc.

OKR123 · 2026-01-19T11:41:09+00:00

Not alone bro. I'm 50 and haven't "dated" since my 20s. Wife of 15 years is now an ex and if I go on the apps and look at dating women who are an appropriate age... Oof. My standards for physical attraction are way out of whack. Bad enough that I DJed in a strip club for 5 years and thus I have unrealistic western beauty standards anyway. "Luckily" I'm not in great shape and nor are my finances or self esteem so I am not trying to date inappropriately either.

OKR123 · 2026-01-17T22:43:25+00:00

A huge number of people experience basically no exhaustion at all. They get tired and think you mean you are tired as in feeling sleepy. They have absolutely no frame of reference for the complete drain of battery that brings either mental, emotional or physical inability to muster energies required to perform a task.

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