James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mr_james_c
Grumpy Optimist | Marketer | Capitalist Founder of @buzzthetower_hq
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Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad. 1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human 2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
My idea of individual abundance is more people earning more but paying less tax whilst still being net contributors. This is possible when state spending is focused on delivering value for things that the private sector isn't well-placed to offer. Instead we have a state which…
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Britain is one the most heavily surveilled countries in the world whilst simultaneously not able to identify thousands of vehicles illegally dumping waste next to one of the Oxfordshires busiest roads over a 5 year period. That heady mixture of bureaucratic overreach and…
It's impossible to argue with people who will not accept evidence. I should have seen the pronouns in bio as a sign.
James, I think the datasets behind it are bullshit. Specifically I think they place artificially low values in human life & health. They don’t place nearly enough weight on educational outcomes. & this study basically assumes the UK MoD doesn’t exist & add’s no value.
The worst thing about this is that you can bet Reeves thought she was being very clever by having Res Foundation push this in the media so the idea could be tested with the public. They are so catastrophically dumb they don't even know when they're being dumb.
Doing an exit tax is very dumb, but telling everyone that you’re doing one and then not doing it is a pretty close second.
Reminder that this "inequality expert" denounced Milei's program as doomed to failure while the other "inequality expert" Joe Stiglitz endorsed Hugo Chavez's program in Venezuela.
Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗wid.world/news-article/5…
This is the kind of shit the CCP pulls that has become prevalent in the West. It's not a good thing.
The thing about duties-based censorship regimes like the UK Online Safety Act is that everyone is potentially in violation of them all the time, so the regulator gets to pick and choose the least cooperative - or most politically desirable - targets for fines and penalties.
I can because they literally do. I'm sorry this confuses you.
Sorry, but the point was you cannot compare public sector productivity in the same way you do private sector productivity. You proceeded to show a graph directly comparing the two. The only disaster is your ability to read.
Sickening. Sex selective abortion has no place in Britain. If that means awkward questions for some then that is a price worth paying. In the cases of Sara Sharif, Axel Rudakubana, and the grooming gangs victims, young girls were not protected because services feared being…
Sorry this is incorrect. You can measure public sector productivity and it's a disaster. Somehow during the nearly 30 years of technology driven improvements in productivity, the public sector didn't improve at all.
Our public sector is too big, but they aren’t paid well at all. Productivity is difficult to compare with the priv sector, it cannot be measured against output of goods & services. You’ll find the public sector isn’t far off the private sector in terms real productivity.
It's undeniable that you'll need highly paid public sector workers. I have no problem with this. Singapore pays public sector workers very well and things in Singapore work very well. My problem is the sheer volume of highly paid public sector workers but the lack of…
Actually thousands of adults choose to work at Starbucks. (If they had a better option, they’d leave.) Depriving these people of their agency is morally and economically obtuse.
Starbucks employs thousands of New Yorkers which it exploits for profit, and forces them onto taxpayer-funded social safety nets like SNAP and Medicaid. If you’re standing with that one billionaire, then you’re standing against thousands of New Yorkers.
Of the many delusions of the soft Left about the far Left, this is probably the biggest. If this is about "universalism", why do people like Mamdani focus on Israel to the exclusion of any other "injustice". Why do they ignore that Palestinian Israelis have the same rights as…
“I’ve met Zohran Mamdani, voted for Zohran Mamdani. I don’t think there’s anything antisemitic about him at all,” says Ezra Klein. He argues the right invokes Mamdani to deflect from its own slide into open bigotry, and uses the moment to analyze a deeper split in how Israel is…
“Um, me and the other crabs have noticed you’re doing better than us & it’s making us uncomfortable”
If you earn £100,000 or above you are in the top 4% of earners out of the 65 million people in the UK. You are, by definition, rich.
You clearly don't know anything about tidal FACT: There are only 2 grid scale tidal schemes anywhere in the world (both c250 MW which is small by grid standards) If tidal was so obvious, don't you think people would be doing it already?? REALITY: It's very expensive to build,…
The state funeral of Lord Horatio Nelson in St Paul's Cathedral
Oh whoops of that 13%, I forgot to split out the public sector vs private sector workers
I seem to have upset people by pointing out that if the 70m people in the UK, only 32m pay income tax. Of those 32m, only about 9m are net contributors to tax. So in our hypothetical street, just over 13% of houses put in more than they take out... and other households resent…
Labour's plans will mean higher energy bills for all of us, making the cost of living crisis even worse. They say that it's to fight climate change - but it won't work. In just 8 years, China produced more carbon than Britain did in 220. There's nothing sustainable about this.
What Ed Miliband is about to do is astonishing. He is locking us into sky-high energy bills for TWO DECADES. Everyone from the Tony Blair Institute to energy experts say this is a mistake. It will be the PFI of the energy system. Ed must scrap his botched wind auction.
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