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Jon Levy retweeted
Time to post my biannual “how artificially compressed are British wages”.
Rising minimum wage and a 50k+ p/a tax bracket that runs to 40% of earnings, and hasn’t adjusted for inflation. This form of artificial wage compression has turned everyone in Britain into low productivity tax cattle - you have zero incentive to become anything other here.
This is also a form of ambition and productivity compression.
Source, ONS, Fig 5: ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabo…
Jon Levy retweeted
England in ten years
再强调一遍，浏览外网或翻墙被派出所传唤，根本不用慌。
首先是网警从流量监控系统中标记了你，然后会通知你当地的派出所片儿警将你传唤问话。
你的不当言论，会被打印出来，放在你面前。
你的手机，会要求解锁，他们会检查你在群里，聊天软件里还说了什么。
民警是很忙，但如果接到系统派发的工单，再忙也要处理，不然就一直挂在系统里，影响KPI了。
处理这种事，民警作为体制内打工人，他的自由裁量权很大的。你其实是增加他们工作量的一个小麻烦。只要好好配合，他们没必要跟你计较太多。
所以只要保证流程合规，上交资料完整，应付检查就行了。但你如果要装逼，摆出不合作的姿态，那不好意思，想整你的途径和方法太多了，哈哈。
去了之后，态度好一点，姿态低一点，开口说：“领导，不好意思，给你添麻烦了。”
然后最重要的是问话环节，他问你答。你不要没事找事，自己多说乱说。不知道、不了解、没做过的，直接就说不知道，别的一概不说。但你确实做过的，而且白纸黑字的放在你面前，那就不要抵赖。
不要说任何对抗性的言论。比如什么什么做的不对，所以我要批判。
如果你是因为不当发言被传唤，就说：“我理解错了意思，以为他在说什么，所以我才说了什么，表达有偏差。其实我不是这个意思。”
如果你是因为浏览了网站被传唤，就说我是不小心点到的，我一点开它就推送了，我也不知道为什么。
只要你态度好，把事情往小了说，一般也就是记录一下。没人愿意增加自己的工作量，对不对？
笔录确认没问题，签字盖章，这事儿就翻篇儿了。
千万不要装逼硬刚。
还有，虽然翻墙了，但什么该说、什么不该说，作为一个成年人，生在红旗下，长在春风里，接受了国家这么多年的教育，自己心里应该有点逼数。
毕竟你爸不是李刚，就算是，也不行。
Jon Levy retweeted
The left spent decades pushing statistics showing how brutal certain societies are for women.
Then they demanded that we mass import men from those societies into the UK.
Eventually the data showed that, surprise surprise, men from those societies presented a far higher risk to women's safety.
To deal with the fact that their policies had now put millions of women at even greater risk of harm - they simply pretended not to understand anything.
The Economist's estimate of Britain's age- and sex-standardised conviction rates for sexual offences by the offender's nationality
economist.com/britain/2026/1…
This is probably why nobody bothers to work hard. There's no benefit to it.
It gets worse.
The minimum wage is set to rise again in the UK.
Our wage distribution is already flatter than the Communist Soviet Union's, and it's getting flatter still.
The pay gap between professional and menial work keeps shrinking.
It's actually so over.
The only thing you can do is stack hard assets, preferably Bitcoin, and have an exit plan because this does not get better any time soon.
Jon Levy retweeted
There’s basically no price differentiation in the entire bottom half of the labour market and then people act surprised when gluts and shortages emerge. Obviously, when all jobs pay the same, people will choose between them based solely on factors like which jobs are nicer to do.
Jon Levy retweeted
An increase to £13.20p/h equates to a minimum wage of £27,456, based on a 40 hour week.
Once you factor in employers NI and basic pension contributions, the MINIMUM cost to hire a 21 year old for a company would be £31,461.
This is before you factor in any overarching business costs like office space, laptops, phone, software, training, support staff, vehicles etc.
This is going to be devastating to SME's who cant put together a simple 12 month budget without the goalposts being moved & their margins squeezed.
It'll also be catastrophic to youngsters opportunities because businesses will simply not be able to afford to hire them.
What's also incredible is that anything above £50,270 is seen as 'high earnings' in the UK and is taxed at 40%!
We are governed by financially and economically illiterate morons.
This will not end well.
Jon Levy retweeted
Even if there were true (it isn't, as men work harder once they're married with kids and waste less money on frivolous nonsense), what does it matter?
Who cares about "compounding" if your line dies with you? What would the point of it all be?
There's no reason to plant forests in the shade of which you won't sit if the state or some stupid NGO will get them when you die
I genuinely don't see how people have this much admin to deal with.
Reading about AI taking over whilst watching the Cylons kick human arse in Battlestar Galactica is an odd feeling
Jon Levy retweeted
easyJet has announced a massive partnership with @Starlink to bring high-speed satellite internet to its aircraft for the first time
The airline carries around 100 MILLION passengers annually and operates more than 350 aircraft across 1,200 routes, making this another huge expansion for Starlink Aviation across Europe
Here's what's coming:
• Starlink installations across Airbus A320, A320neo, and A321neo aircraft
• Rollout beginning in the first half of 2027
• Completion targeted for early 2028
• High-speed, low-latency internet for streaming, gaming, browsing, and working
• Connectivity from takeoff to landing
What's even more interesting is that just nine months ago, easyJet said the economics of Starlink weren't working for them. Now they've officially signed a partnership with SpaceX
Starlink continues expanding across the world's major airlines, bringing an entirely new standard of inflight connectivity to millions of passengers
Even Europe's low-cost airlines are embracing Starlink
Jon Levy retweeted
Brutal chart.
France and UK vs. Communist countries at their peak.
UK public spending as % of GDP is currently above Romania, Venezuela and China.
And France is a lost cause.
(HM Treasury/Rand Research)
Jon Levy retweeted
They want to make fuel more expensive?!?
🚨NEW: Chancellor John Healey has drawn up plans to announce a "green tax" on imported fuel in next week's Budget
[@Telegraph]
Jon Levy retweeted
This is a supertrawler. One of 26 that operate in British waters.
Together with the EU they scrape over 500,000 TONNES of fish from our sea a year. Leaving our fishermen on their knees and supermarkets importing the fish we eat from … China.
Brexit allowed us to fix this devastating mess but we didn’t. Both Labour and Tories say they have no definition of a supertrawler, so they can ban them.
How’s that sustainability goal working out?
Jon Levy retweeted
imagine pulling up alongside this tiny dick little petrobitch in a Tesla roadster, speedmogging the fuck out of his lil toy, then hitting your boosters and flying away while giving the finger
Jon Levy retweeted
In recent months, the Americans, French, Germans, and Israelis - our so-called “allies” - have either cast doubt on our sovereignty over the Falkland Islands or moved towards supplying weapons to Argentina, a country that continues to claim British territory as its own.
President Trump has openly discussed reviewing America's position on the Falklands. French and German defence firms have offered Argentina new submarines, while Israel has already signed an agreement to supply its armed forces with weapons.
What is our government doing in response?
Nothing.
We may not be the global superpower we once were, but we still have tremendous leverage over all of these countries and we should not be afraid of using it.
And I don’t mean sending strongly-worded letters or summoning ambassadors.
The government has already negotiated surrender deals over Chagos and Gibraltar. If we continue to allow our territorial integrity to be questioned without consequence, we will lose all of our overseas territories and be left even more globally irrelevant than we already are.
Germany and France offer to build submarines for Argentina as threat to the Falkland Islands rises trib.al/hGTzrVS
