Houdini Logic

Surely that's still not there?! I spray-painted that around 20 years ago when I was in College!!! We were travelling around all the villages near Uppingham spraying a red letter 'R' over the 'N' of all the 'Keep Hunting' signs that we could find

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Surely you are part of the society who supports this trend when you buy products from their companies? What phone are you using? Computer? The payment is typically from stock options, so if the company does well they get paid more. If you don't like it - don't support the company. Just moaning about 'society' isn't going to fix it

I wouldn't bother asking him - he's just spent $44 billion on a platform that apparently no-one uses anymore

Microwaves that still beep even though you've opened the door. Give me a break ffs, I'm trying my best...

I think burning unseasoned wood is actually illegal now It will probably also screw up your system a lot quicker than burning dry wood. Take the hit and buy a builders bag of logs and the relative price isn't actually too bad

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This is because executives are incentivised by the share price through Agency Theory, so they will do anything to increase the share price because it will increase their own personal wealth as well as keeping them in a job. Certain bodies (WEF, etc) are trying to advocate for the move from shareholder primacy (i.e. agency theory) to stakeholder primacy, but we'll see if there's actually any change in this area. I doubt it. Also, profits only tell part of the story - usually a reason to restructure is based on worries about cash flow. You can make or lose profit time and time again, but you can only run out of cash once - so that is usually the driver for companies to negatively restructure. If profits and cash flow are healthy they usually tend to expand.

OK I must have misinterpreted your reply. Maybe I'm an exception but I find these conversations useful for forming my own opinions. I am genuinely interested in what other people think, particularly in areas that I would like to see happen but can't quite figure out how - there doesn't need to be an argument. But fair play, I respect your approach

So capitalism in itself isn't the problem, it's the version which we have and how its regulated/used/abused, or not fully exploited for the masses, which is the problem? That's actually my sentiment so if I've understood your view it sound like we're in agreement

I would love to see a different system in place but I just can't see any realistic alternative, especially in the UK. As soon as we move slightly away from being a financialised economy then the few benefits that all of us do enjoy will be obsolete. We don't produce anything as a country so sadly we're kind of dependent on the entire thing we hate. Genuinely keen to hear about any potential alternatives. For me, capitalism, while not ideal, actually could be a vehicle by which we do ensure everyone can live a comfortable life in the UK - if only the government ensured that people and corporations paid the appropriate tax, and then subsequently spent that money on helping the right people. That's how I would solve the problem because I think any alternative is sadly unrealistic, though always keen to hear different ideas...

Not really. Because unlike the people who throw around terms like "under-taxed" and "over payed", I tend to think it's a more complex subject than that. But you do you

Yes indeed, many went PAYE or umbrella due to recent IR35 changes. To be clear they haven't scrapped it, they've just put the determination back on the contractor rather than the end client. "Over paid" is a particularly interesting choice of words...

The government has slowly been ramping up dividend tax rates over the last few years, so there isn't the difference there once was

Has it ever crossed your mind that the people who earn the most money in this country are the ones more likely to be in a position to be able to live and work wherever they please? 40% of their salary is better than 90% of f*** all

I leave mine on 17 all year round and it finally kicked in last week

I don't think it is the change mid parliament that's the problem - I think it's more the fact that the outgoing PM was a crook and their replacement is absolutely clueless and a PR nightmare

I forgot how nice it is to watch football without commentary...

You're making a lot of (IMO naive) assumptions about the correlations here

I used to doubt Stowell, Rudkin et al, but they've all clearly proven themselves to be able to build, run and contribute towards a Premier League winning team. The only variable is the manager and his cohort. (Potentially recruitment too but IMO it's not the quality of players that's the issue)

You're missing the important part of what happened yesterday - the law intervened. (actually there's another key difference regarding the subject and who it was targeted at, but I don't want to confuse the point). This isn't a question of respect, it is a question of freedom of speech. To carry on your analogy - if someone started shouting their head off during a two minutes silence, do you think they should be arrested?

14th September 2:53pm

Stick him in the under 23s

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