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I think we're sitting on a worker morale timebomb. You can strive to get a decent job, only to watch your buying power evaporate while your income stagnates. In normal circumstances, ambition keeps you going, but when you know that maintenance-mode commuter drudgery is as good as it gets while you gradually have to live on less, having to work a pointless job you absolutely hate will just see millions entering a depression cycle - where only the spiritually lobotomised can hold down a job at all.
I'll be honest. I sold the bottom at $266.
That was my paper hands moment. I'm not proud of it.
But I also held from pennies to $32, then watched it crash 94% to $2. Held.
Held through Mt. Gox. Held through the 2018 crash to $3,200. Held through COVID dumping it to $3,800 in a single afternoon.
"I'll buy when it dips" is what everyone says.
Then it dips 48% and they freeze.
What kept me holding was not bravery. It was understanding what I owned.
You have to know what you hold. Otherwise the dip owns you.
Over the past decade, Britain has raised its minimum wage to one of the highest in the world. In a zero-productivity-growth environment, this has meant that wages at the bottom have risen far faster than those in the middle. What have the consequences been?
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The era of end-to-end encrypted DMs on Instagram is coming to a close, luckily we’ve got a ready-made list of WhatsApp alternatives (which are relevant here too) if you’re looking to shift conversations elsewhere.
(and to be clear, you should…)
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Residents refuse to pay council tax over undemocratic cancellation of elections
Well done David Elliot & all!
David in his Eighties a grandfather cancelled the direct debit payments for his council tax bills.
Mr Elliott, from Watton, Norfolk, is protesting after his council became one of 30 local authorities across Britain to cancel elections scheduled to be held in May, depriving 4.5 million people of the chance to vote.
A growing group of people say they will ‘withhold’ money until they can vote for their local leaders
Take back democracy Together
It turns out we already have a social credit system here.
The DBS have barred Dave because he was not obedient enough.
He wrote vaccine exemption letters which people used to travel.
These were never shown, but had they been, then the rules being broken were not UK rules.