Sam Forbes

Technology Philosopher, writer and the Cat who walked by himself.
More Absurd than Camus. I know nothing.

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published The Wrong Funeral https://t.co/NgIFWyagXL

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True https://t.co/7fmliNMklw

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published The Clerk of Time https://t.co/B0tCovL0oW

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published What the House Kept https://t.co/WIKmEHwXDs

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published The 4th Great Humiliation https://t.co/ABgLLrkcQz

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published The Sweet Childhood of the Wicked Witch https://t.co/8b8B3qcmwk

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

Mr Albanese: Poetry of Risk and Reward https://t.co/NY3Wudin05

[Sam Forbes @RugbyOne]

I just published Mr Albanese; All of the Upside, None of the Risk https://t.co/4X3x3hluAq

[Matthew Camenzuli @Matt_Camenzuli]

Dave Hughes is rightly furious with this utterly useless and dishonest Albanese Government.

His language is coarse, but his point is very clear.

If you lie your way in, you should seek a mandate.

Call an election!

[Emanuele Esposito @emanuelespo]

Australia’s small businesses have turned frustration into a viral social media movement:
“Albo the Silent Business Partner.” 🇦🇺

Farmers, tradies, mechanics, pizza shops, digital agencies and family businesses are posting memes showing PM Anthony Albanese as the “partner” who doesn’t invest, doesn’t work… but somehow takes 47%.

What started as satire is quickly becoming a symbol of growing anger over taxes, cost of living and pressure on small business.

When economic frustration becomes meme culture, governments should pay attention.

#Albo #AnthonyAlbanese #Australia #SmallBusiness #AustralianBusiness #CostOfLiving #CGT #Tax #Labor #AustralianPolitics #SmallBusinessOwner #Economy #AustraliaNews #Business #Viral

[KylieB @burkylie12]

Albanese is your new business partner taking 47%

[Keith Marlow @keithmarlowau]

Albo, the new surprise investor in all businesses across Australia, using your money... He takes no risk but walks off with 47%, what a man!

[May⬡ @amayohayes]

I'd like you all to meet my new 47% business partner. @AlboMP thats while im alive, when I pass ill pm give him another 27% just cause good faith. He deserves it way more than my children. All that hard work hea put in to destroy Australia.

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

Mr. 47% strikes again.

Nice one Albo.

Glad you got your half.

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

You bleed. You break. You pay for everything.
@AlboMP and @JEChalmers take 47% and lifts zero f…… fingers.
Legalised extortion dressed as tax or ‘partnership’.

[Captain Carot Toes @chauvinistIQue]

Heres the newest edition to the crew. Albo doing the hard yards for his 47%.

[Jacob Wolki @JakeWolki]

The whole "Albo owns 47% of my business" meme was a beautiful thing to watch. There were plenty of reply guys in the comments on all business pages being nitpickers, arguing semantics and displaying straight contempt for the entrepreneurs in our society, but they completely missed the point.

Yeah, we all know "Albo doesn't literally own 47% of our business"

That'd be absurd because then the Gov would actually share downside risk.

Yeah, we know the tax rate is progressive.
We know that the CGT discount only applies when your business is sold.

It's not an outrage at this singular specific line item in the budget.

It's "The straw that broke the camel's back", and the Overton Window is shifting.
People are willing to talk about the trials and tribulations of running a business publicly, and no longer care about looking weak, desperate or like a failure.
That’s a far bigger cultural shift than you may realise.

Business isn't meant to be easy.
Business is a battlefield, the best offerings will win.
There isn't a divine benevolence surrounding business owners meaning that we should guarantee them success, and that’s not what business owners are asking for.

People who start a business know the risks. They know the data. They see the cafes close, the shops shut up and the brands disappear. But being entrepreneurial is less a vocation and more a calling and you have to enter the marketplace - the battlefield - to see what you’re made of. To harden your steel.

But the battlefield isn’t just your idea versus marketplace sentiment. The battlefield is an unnatural, adulterated landscape riddled with compliance, liability, inflation, bad fiscal policy - the list goes on. Time, stress and costs surrounding all sides of business are slowly compounding. Frogs in a pot, slowly boiling.

All the stuff that we need and want will be available - until it isn’t. It will just no longer come from hardworking Aussie families.
Multi-national zombie corporations will be there to service us.

You know, those big businesses that can lobby, comply, pay the fines and keep growing while offshoring profits through an Irish business registration or some other fancy loophole that is conveniently left open.

China and other nations who couldn’t care less about their emissions will continue to feed us our phones, cars and everything in between while we crush any and all domestic production to chase Nyet Zero, to virtue signal that we have shaved our 1% global emissions down to whatever.

Small business is increasingly "no man's land", a very hostile curated environment.

"Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is now a cultural joke rather than fatherly advice to “work hard and have a go”.

And still, trying to create and produce is a damn more impressive and useful vocation than most, and the overlord class is squeezing the energetic and the entrepreneurial close to the point where they can no longer sell themselves the pipe dreams of

"Next year will be better"
"Next budget will be better"
“Next product will be better"
“Inflation will slow down”
"I'm my own boss"
"I have freedom because I ‘work for myself’ “
“I’m building equity”

Don't mistake the signal for the noise.

[Kazza_Bazza @kazza_bazz]

@AlboMP Hey Albanese - you must be getting hard up for cash when you tax people begging in the street!

[Kazza_Bazza @kazza_bazz]

@AlboMP Hey Albanese - how are the takings going from the massage business?... Any happy endings?

[Kazza_Bazza @kazza_bazz]

Hey Albanese - I don't know whether to laugh or cry!