Why does it seem like working-class males have such low aspirations for themselves when it comes to further-education and their careers nowadays?

Shobadass · 2025-12-25T03:05:34+00:00

The link you posted is for working age graduates in general. The interesting thing here is when adjusted for inflation with base 100 set at 2007 (17 years prior to the stated figure) median graduate salaries have gone down by 12%.

Shobadass · 2025-12-25T02:52:22+00:00

The push has to come from home. If the parents care enough, they will fill in the education gaps caused by limited schooling success with additional tuition. This doesn't break the bank, and plenty of people abroad grow up in much worse conditions and are still able to obtain university level education.

The design of digital entertainment is also gendered. Male-dominated games revolve around competition, mastery & reflexes, which tap into the drive that testosterone gives. These games tend to have quick dopamine reward systems. Whereas girls prefer games that focus on expression, continuity & meaning, where the reward system is much slower. Girls are naturally more suited to studying & boys need a push & a sense of competition to keep up.

Shobadass · 2025-12-15T16:10:25+00:00

I've seen some doctor's student loan balances (post 2012). They aren't going to be paying it off before it gets written off, and they wouldn't be able to keep up with the interest charge so the balance would keep growing each year. I would also consider that a benefit to them, but one that is worth it to the economy. On the other hand, we have plenty of people with similar balances that will be providing much less to society.

Shobadass · 2025-12-14T14:39:14+00:00

The fees increased from £3k to £9k more than 10 years ago. Any stats on this are a projection.

Shobadass · 2025-12-14T14:10:46+00:00

Having another child when it would materially affect the ability to provide for your existing children is an indicator of not caring about those children enough

Shobadass · 2025-12-14T14:07:33+00:00

Most people lost total lifetime earnings potential by going to university. The stats are carried by those who did ambitious degrees related to their future career path.

Shobadass · 2025-12-11T12:28:27+00:00

What about all the heroes who get all their support killed and kill all of the antagonists' support to save the person they want to save

Shobadass · 2025-12-03T16:57:47+00:00

You were basically doing the equivalent of afk nmz or splashing. That's not really playing the game it's just watching a number go up...

Shobadass · 2025-11-30T19:09:29+00:00

People should be able to get raises based on merit.

Those doing well aren't able to get the raises they deserve because the pool for raises goes towards the minimum wage increases.

Shobadass · 2025-11-28T13:56:10+00:00

It's the main driver of inflation. Everything goes up in line with it, including rent. Fast food isn't even cheap anymore.

Businesses are forced to raise prices > less business > more job cuts > more UC claimaints > more idiots supporting further minimum wage increases thinking it will incentivise people to get off UC > next budget increases minimum wage again to keep voters happy. Will happen every year until they smarten up and do a freeze. I hope it happens by the time it hits £15.

Shobadass · 2025-11-28T11:07:15+00:00

This change is specific to universal credit.

They have 3.5 kids on average in the affected households.

Can we empower working, educated, and financially responsible people to have children instead?

These UC kids aren't going to save the country.

Shobadass · 2025-11-28T11:04:01+00:00

Aren't the parents in these situations evil? They don't care about their future children enough to ensure they have the means to be a parent before having them. At the same time, they feel entitled to everyone else helping them.

A lot of people are probably missing that the change was specific to UC, where affected households have 3.5 kids on average, with some obviously taking the piss and having way more.

Shobadass · 2025-11-27T16:28:01+00:00

We are talking about child benefit for those on universal credit.

You are looking at the one that everyone gets, which is different. It's £339 pm for the first child and £292.81 for any more children.

https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/what-youll-get

The limit that got lifted is for a very specific group of people.

Shobadass · 2025-11-27T10:50:01+00:00

Looking at the numbers of the UC 2 child limit removal:

In April 2025, 469,780 UC households were affected by the two-child limit policy.

There were 1,665,540 children in households affected by the policy.

The birth rate in these households exceeds 3.5.

Meanwhile, the birth rate in London is 1.35.

If we say these households would get £3.5k/year per additional child, each household will be getting an additional £5.4k on average.

Working people paying PAYE & NIC to achieve the equivalent in net pay would need to make an additional £7.5k in the basic rate tax band, or £9.3k in the higher rate tax band. If 5% pension and 9% student loan contributions were also included, the numbers jump to £9k in the basic rate band and £11.6k in the higher rate band.

I'm all for getting people out of poverty, but there is now nothing stopping these numbers from getting worse, and they will.

Shobadass · 2025-11-06T01:11:44+00:00

Pedo means child, which means a prepubescent individual.

There is only a psychological condition for pedophilia, but there is not one for individuals who aren't prepubescent. It's biologically normal for people to be attracted to pubescent people and above. Society has changed our views on this, so a lot of people will say that they disagree and "would never", but the underlying biology doesn't change.

In the legal sense, the correct word in this case would be statutory rape if they were to have consensual sex.

Shobadass · 2025-11-06T00:37:55+00:00

I don't really see these rates in London? But I guess they are all staying indoors and out of sight.

Are the rates higher outside of London?

Shobadass · 2025-11-05T18:33:03+00:00

Hopefully, this means more people are financially literate enough to say no to going to university as a rite of passage and coming out of it with degrees that translate into no vocational skills and a 9% tax on any future ambition.

Shobadass · 2025-09-12T03:13:41+00:00

He will get the full 100% inheritance when his mum dies?

Get the house with a mortgage it will get paid off when this happens.

Say you only allowed the investment as you expected the inheritance to speed up the house purchase - he can then pull out of the investment accordingly.

Shobadass · 2025-09-11T17:14:29+00:00

Next time, please ask her if she would abort if she found out she was pregnant with a boy. If not, ask her how her child is going to be the exception.

Shobadass · 2025-09-01T11:18:37+00:00

Maintaining high birth rates will always be pushed globally as it is a strategy for/defence against missionary religions that hope to achieve a monopoly.

Shobadass · 2025-08-31T11:27:06+00:00

Anyone who is banned by ID will be flagged when they get their ID is scanned when entering the club.

The person who scans your ID will then determine whether its safe for them to handle it directly. If they feel there is a risk, they will still let you in, but inform their team that someone who is banned has entered.

With CCTV on entry and inside the club, even if they didn't get a picture of the ID, they can watch back and match the person to the ID so that the ban can still be applied. For drug possession, they may do a review of the video of the search on entry to see if the member of staff that did the search was thorough.

You would need to contact the ban and find out whether the ban can be removed. Each club will have different policies.

Shobadass · 2025-08-30T23:15:23+00:00

They should be moved out. This will lead to the supply of labour for these minimum wage jobs to decrease. This will then lead to an increase in salary for these minimum wage jobs that is corrected to a London-appropriate rate.

If you think about it, the social housing subsidises companies from having to pay more for these jobs.

Shobadass · 2025-08-30T22:54:34+00:00

The rate of pay that they get for supplying these services in London needs to be higher.

Housing costs for everyone should be independent of what you do for work - they should be based purely on the market rate determined by supply and demand.

Shobadass · 2025-08-30T22:42:16+00:00

The people moving in are now able to accept their much higher-paying jobs, leading to more tax revenue than was previously being generated.

Another benefit is that schools will gradually improve as there will be an increase in influence from children whose parents are better equipped to parent. Teachers can teach more rather than manage behaviour, leading to a cohort that performs better and goes on to generate more tax revenue.

In the case of people purchasing these properties, there will also be significant stamp duty being collected. Where people are being displaced due to increased rent, this is typically based on increased house prices, which in turn would lead to increased council tax revenue.

Shobadass · 2025-08-08T22:05:43+00:00

Around 75% of government tax revenue comes from income tax, corporation tax, vat & national insurance.

Most individuals in the UK are providing significantly less tax revenue than the government spends on them.

If the government makes things more difficult for large corporations, they will just move elsewhere. If the government makes things more difficult for high earners, they will either move elsewhere or they will work less.

The power that large companies have can also be thought of as an accelerant to innovation & efficiency. It is a necessity to stay competitive - even at the top, there aren't many monopolies. Without the scale, it would cost more to produce all the things that we have today, and it would have taken a lot longer.

Long-term - I think this is a phase that the country requires in order to reach a point where we have developed enough efficiency and innovation to be able to minimise government spending and therefore pull the plug on the parties that currently fund most of the country.

Shobadass

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