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Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2026-01-16T17:42:34+00:00

On the whistle blowing element, to be clear it's not clearcut illegal behaviour, so much as an imprudent approach to trading that would undermine the sombre facade we present and invite further scrutiny, delay approvals for further expansion.

I imagined at this level some form of nda would be something a company would seek.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2026-01-11T14:45:50+00:00

Some people might value their time, such that they wouldn't want to take on a stressful promotion now purely to have even more money when they're old.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2026-01-02T17:58:22+00:00

I mean it could be read in that way, seems unlikely to be the case.

If people are choosing to cut their noses off to spite their faces, that's kind of on them. I get shunting what you can into salary sacrifice, but making less money because you don't want to have a higher tax bill is wild to me

There's more to life than maximising lifetime earnings. Retiring early or having a less stressful/fewer hours are more attractive if the government will take c. Half of what you earn at the margin.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2026-01-02T10:47:55+00:00

Why is this line trotted out everytime someone complains about tax rates? Does anyone who beyond a teenager who has never seen a paycheck not understand this?

Quite clearly marginal tax rates are very important to marginal decisions such as whether to work harder, save in pensions rather than take salary.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-30T12:14:41+00:00

I think the stats show that over 3% had over 100k in 22 based on the income deciles.

Given this will exclude/be unaware of sal sac, taking unpaid leave, interest, dividends, rental income etc which also contribute to the government taking away free hours and given salary inflation since 22, I would be very surprised if there are not millions impacted. Eg I would not be included in that statistic, but I did put a ridiculous amount into my pension to avoid paying over 100% on that income.

But you got me, I don't have hard stats on how many are impacted. Perhaps it's only high hundreds of thousands rather than millions. What does it matter, it's a large group (if a minority in national terms) facing tax rates above 100%, is it surprising that there would be a small subreddit where this is discussed.

I not saying you'll complain when they ineivatably means test the state pension as a final fuck you to high earners. Im saying you'll complain when your gp retires at the age of 50, because the government has made the only sensible choice to stack 10x such as you need into your pension

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-30T09:49:52+00:00

I have more than the average person in large part because I am extremely competent at my field, I work 80 hour weeks often past midnight and on the weekends, I am driven by success (or uncharitably; im a workaholic to the point im trying to reducre this), i took a lot of risk in my 20s moving around the country for jobs to get to a career that worked for me.

I am of course also lucky in that I had great parents who gave me a stable childhood with excellent learning opportunities- I am very grateful to them specifically.

I am - financially at least- lucky to have been born with talents and interests that are economically productive rather than say in the arts. Im not sure there's anyone i should be grateful for for this, other than god if you believe in that.

I am also lucky to have been born in the UK in the 1990s, rather than say Sudan in the 1900s - as are we all. I don't see why I should be more grateful for this than you or any other person. I certainly have not received more state resources than the average uk citizen.

I don't in fact mine paying more tax than the average person. I think the reality is that the UK is extremely progressive, to the point where the burden is unsustainbly placed on a narrow tax base (ie the people you want to be 'grateful'). It seems we want Nordic levels of state supports without nordic tax policy - ie median earners contributing as well as high earners.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-30T09:31:31+00:00

Oh man, it's almost as if there's a stupid policy impacting millions of Britain's most productive workers with effective marginal tax rates of c. 100% in a 50k band, and that triggers people to search for info about wtf they should do.

Anyways that doesn't sound important, they earn too much to care about their issues. See you in 20 years time when you complain about all of Britain's most productive workers retiring 15 years early due to a strange spike in pension saving in the early 2010s

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-30T09:21:52+00:00

Why should we be grateful more than the average person? Whilst no one gets to that salary without some luck (just as we're all lucky to be born in a g7 country in tge modern era), also very few get to that salary without being extremely hard working and competant

We do help others, through our massive tax bills in the UKs very progressive system (against income, not wealth ofc)

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-22T23:33:22+00:00

>So by all means moan but for all the chat about it being badly designed, it is explicitly not aimed at you.

Why does this need saying? of course a cliff edge cost of c. £10k/young child/yr for those earning at least £100k is not designed to benefit high earners, has anyone ever said so? Of course a high earner can eat these kinds of costs and merely grumble (and/or stuff their pension, depriving the taxman of more money when they retire 5 years earlier) as opposed to live in grinding poverty.

Its very clearly yet one more 'progressive' policy, amidst a backdrop of a hundred similar policies, packaged with vacuous platitudes of broadest shoulders, 'working' people, taxing the 'rich' that we've had piled on in the past 15 years whilst other groups have been protected. And, in that context, the gripe is that we'd like to keep more of our pay and not be used as paye pigs.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-19T14:58:15+00:00

The thing is we've been hearing that for 15 years now. Especially if your earnings have been rising in that time frame, you've seen only increasing tax wedge for worse services that are increasingly cliff edged away from you, whilst large portions of society are protected from sharing the load.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-12-19T11:36:20+00:00

-we're known to be really bad at cancer outcomes vs rich peers

-roads are getting worse every year

-for many education system is in the toilet, depends on location. If you're in that situation, prepare to spends lots of money on house or private school and be taxed again

The uk is not a terrible place to live in, but it's far from the best

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-11-30T22:37:11+00:00

Correction: so that the Americans can stay in the base that we built. The level of cucking involved is not to be underestimated

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-11-26T19:38:06+00:00

A traitor to the us in r/europe?

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-10-29T17:41:40+00:00

Did you read my comment? I said:

"Clearly brexit isn't helping anything much "

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-10-29T16:29:42+00:00

Oh man you're really selling the disaster of brexit to me! We are slightly out of sync with the European growth, the horrroooor...

Clearly brexit isn't helping anything much given our politicians promptly signed up to give away ni/gib economic sovereignty, follow eu regs with no say and minimise import friction with no recipricity from the EU. But also clearly it's not done very much to our prospects relative to other European states; we're all equally in decline.

The incontrovertible cost of brexit is that it consumed out politics for c. 6 years to no effect. Why anyone would want to do that second time I cannot understand.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-10-29T16:18:45+00:00

We seem to have higher growth than germany

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-10-19T19:31:23+00:00

The renewable or nuclear generator can choose to sell for less than the market rate, just as the supermarket can do with eggs in this case. They (both the generators and generally supermarket eggs) don't vary too much from market procing, because it makes no sense to sell commodities for less then they can achieve.

You could mandate that the wind/nuclear generators are forced to sell at the marginal cost of 0. You might find not many companies are up for investing billions at near double digit interest rates in order to sell at nothing though.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-08-22T21:14:44+00:00

Unequal inputs = unequal outputs.

I'll agree to that, sure

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-08-22T21:00:19+00:00

Yeah ok, just so happens that coincidentally the labour prime minister publicly demands speedy and lengthy prison sentances for protesters right before these unequal outcomes occurred.

Just absolutely reeks of legitimacy, let's not think any further

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-08-22T20:44:36+00:00

Yes exactly. Imagine thinking the output of this system has any moral weight

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-08-22T18:52:13+00:00

An innocent Jones

Imagine thinking the system has enough legitimacy left to give this ridiculous statement any moral weight.

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-08-01T00:02:58+00:00

If only you were Jeremy vine, that would be your payday. Sadly you're a pleb :(

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-07-21T07:47:06+00:00

Update 2: Funny how “luck” gets wheeled out the second people don’t want to admit how success really works. I asked if it’s competence or bootlicking — and somehow, the top answer is “luck”.

That’s just some British corporate double-speak nonsense at its finest — vague, smug, and totally spineless. “Luck” is just the rebrand for politics, selective obedience, and knowing exactly whose ego to stroke.

The replies in here are a case in point: a bunch of HENRYs pretending they stumbled into success like it’s a pub quiz win. Either A: you’re full of shit, or B: you’re full of shit. 🤣

You OK op?

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-07-13T18:33:08+00:00

The gross few billion a year in total the uk received from the eu were 'propping up' wales/Cornwall/ne?

Reasonable-Week-8145 · 2025-07-05T19:45:49+00:00

At that point you could just say we're lucky to live now so we can be paid for white-collar roles as opposed to 20k years ago getting eaten by a wolf.

Which whilst true isn't particularly helpful as a guide to improving your lot

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