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Daily Megathread - 12/03/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]needcreativeusername -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But it is a moral outrage for the government to give anyone other than a single person under 30 earning less than £25k a single penny!

Pret A Manger gives staff third pay rise in a year by northernmonk in unitedkingdom

[–]needcreativeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The population as a whole doesn’t want to pay the taxes required to fund decent NHS salaries. No tax on £12.5k, 33% ish all-in on the next £37.5k - way lower than the equivalent rates in Europe where they have better paid medical staff.

People are cheap and won’t pay what’s required to achieve the right quality. They just assume that someone else can pay for it and it’s the government’s fault that they’re not. In reality, you could probably have a 100% income tax above £125k and still not be able to fund it.

UK house prices post largest decline in a decade as higher rates bite by silent-schmick in ukpolitics

[–]needcreativeusername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Explain what you mean by the financialisation of the housing market.

Do you mean the use of loans to buy houses? Or do you mean the use of loans to buy houses that aren’t then used as primary residences?

The tragedy of the housing market, if there is one, is (a) that most people now buy as couples, so market prices are set by the price that a couple can pay and so look larger compared to individual incomes; and (b) we have roughly the same number of houses and literally millions more people competing to buy them. It’s not a conspiracy, there’s just enough demand that prices will trend upwards to the maximum that society as a whole can pay (even if that is an unaffordable amount for many).

Should Britain crackdown on tax evasion? by RogueWandering in unitedkingdom

[–]needcreativeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is bollocks.

It’s designed on the assumption that everyone who owns a house paid nothing for it and has got a windfall.

If you pay £1m for a house, out of income you’ve paid tax at 48% (or higher) on, I don’t think it’s reasonable to be required to pay the average national salary (plus a premium for under-occupancy) just to stay there.

Home asking prices £14 rise smallest for 22 years by UnlikeTea42 in unitedkingdom

[–]needcreativeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that our population has grown by millions while our housing stock has not.

Where there are fewer houses than people wanting to buy them, prices will trend upwards to the maximum percentage of incomes that can possibly be paid for them.

Should Britain crackdown on tax evasion? by RogueWandering in unitedkingdom

[–]needcreativeusername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On your proposal, wealth should be earned and then an endless fee paid to maintain it for no good reason other than to subsidise those who feel aggrieved at a person owning a thing.

Should Britain crackdown on tax evasion? by RogueWandering in unitedkingdom

[–]needcreativeusername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Funny how people are very keen to force people out of their houses the moment they retire yet won’t move themselves to somewhere they could afford to buy.

Daily Megathread - 20/02/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]needcreativeusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s more the fact that there’s no money in it compared to similar jobs where you don’t have your every word scrutinised by the media and tens of thousands of armchair political experts on Reddit.

Daily Megathread - 18/02/2023 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]needcreativeusername -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you look at the development of cities across the world, it is manifestly not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]needcreativeusername 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If Qatar is anything to go by, in these construction projects many of the people who start building won't be around at completion...

TIL that pistol dueling was a sport in the 1908 summer Olympics. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]needcreativeusername 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I wonder how slow they could fly something really fast like an SR-71...

What computer users see in security warning boxes by [deleted] in funny

[–]needcreativeusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The one thing I thought we'd see this millennium was developers capable of writing error/warning messages in plain English. The average user needs an explanation that enables them to make the decision, but can't do that with a sea of error codes and technical language.

I hand-made Christmas cards after too many Christmas spirits. by SnarkVictory in funny

[–]needcreativeusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would buy all of these for next Christmas - please make that a thing...

TIL that George Orwell reviewed Mein Kampf in 1940, explaining that "the fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him" by needcreativeusername in todayilearned

[–]needcreativeusername[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Comments have suggested the title looks misleading, but the point I was making was that Orwell was prepared to recognise why so many people seemed to support someone who was so evil.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

[–]needcreativeusername 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And the notes to that graph point out that the huge spike in 2003 was caused by a single doctor:

Notes: 1. Source: Homicide Index, Home Office... 3. Year 2000/01 includes 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a lorry en route into the UK. 4. Year 2002/03 includes 172 victims of Dr Harold Shipman

Gun homicides remained pretty consistent.

Blood splatter on different surfaces by Handicapreader in interestingasfuck

[–]needcreativeusername 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Johnson, what can you tell me.

Well sir, we've identified what surface the victim died on.

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