seriously though, wtf is the end game with all of these price hikes across the board? what do they think will happen when the vast majority of us little consumers have no disposable income to spend on goods and services anymore? what is the end game lads???
BT is pushing ahead with planned broadband price rises estimated at 13pc next spring, in the latest sign that squeeze on household finances will continue long into 2023 https://t.co/jdL0FMc4Wa
stop glorifying/celebrating the 'side hustle', I beg ๐คฎ
working full-time and then having to monetise the little slices of free time you have left in order to loosen the cost of living noose is ๐คnot๐ค empowering
Can someone plz explain why we can't live in a society where there's:
a) A livable minimum wage for every job, say 25k for a full-time role
b) A capped maximum wage, say max ยฃ1m per year
Obviously not an economist but surely this would help close monstrous inequality gaps?
While still offering enough of a divide that capitalism shaggers can still "HUstLe" to earn substantially more than the average Joe?
Nobody living in poverty? Nobody earning a disgusting wage they couldn't spend in several lifetimes? Still ample incentive to "gEt On tHe GrINd"?
ofc it's #notallmen but if the blokes getting their backs up would instead just listen that creepy male attention starts from age 12, that most of us have been followed or worse, and that anti-rape measures when out alone are a given, then maybe you'd get the scale of the problem
I tend to just talk shit on here but seeing the #NotAllMen rear itโs head around the Sarah Everard story is pathetic. Everyone knows itโs not all of us but it pretty much always is one of us. Nowโs not the time to be looking for praise for not abducting someone, fucking weirdos.
can never understand why people get so foam-at-the-mouth obsessed over issues that:
a) are personal to other people and simply none of their business
b) have no impact on their own life whatsoever
c) positively impact the life of the person whose business it is
graham linehan just admitted to the house of lords that his fight against trans people's rights placed his marriage under 'such a strain that my wife and i finally agreed to separate'
sad
innocently remarked to my bf that I wish the pandemic pounds would slide off as easily as they slid on and he told me I've officially started talking like a boomer hun ๐ฅฒ
Always remember just how mind-boggling an amount of money is really sat in the public purse when MPs insist that their hands are tied and they simply ๐ can't ๐ feed hungry people or help the homeless or give nurses a pay rise or reasonable sick pay or fund youth centres or
Cost of lab on Mars: 2.5 Billion.
Cost of not fit for purpose SERCO Test and Trace: 22 Billion.
They are lying to us and stealing from us.
#ToryCorruption