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[Mark J]

54 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Pretty much tax avoidance then 🤷‍♂️which you yourself have said on several occasions is something you and your accountant partake of and is totally legal and acceptable Mark. 
 

 

Different scales, as you well know.

How's that king cab pickup working out for you?
 

Don't try to play the fool, you do it with the race baiting, it just makes you look like a dick. 

Envy (loathing)plays a part in things, as it's not on that you or I will make the interest he earns though nothing, when we work long hours, away from family, in inhospitable conditions. 

 

The wee people in society will be even more stuffed if we don't do something soon. 

Edited January 27 by Mark J

[markieg31]

Is it not that the highest earners are interstellar... The CEOs compared to average worker 

21:1 1965

290:1 2023 

 

It's well out of whack. 

 

Bit like Thames water putting up bills, after paying out all that money and I read the other day that 50% of all water pumped gets lost to leaks! Absolutely astonishing!

 

There needs to be more balance. CEOs of companies, when shit hits the fan, seems to saunter off into the sunset with some juicy pension. 

 

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

The envy of the leftards is never far from the surface. 

You been sulking SP/TA after you had your arse handed to you recently for lying wee man. 😂😂

 

No you rightarded idiot. Simple sums laid bare, that was all.

 

Why do you attack when you are astounded by others ability to do simple mathematical sums? Is it out of your envy, or astonishment that others can do what you cannot?

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Different scales, as you well know.

How's that king cab pickup working out for you?
 

Don't try to play the fool, you do it with the race baiting, it just makes you look like a dick. 

Envy (loathing)plays a part in things, as it's not on that you or I will make the interest he earns though nothing, when we work long hours, away from family, in inhospitable conditions. 

 

The wee people in society will be even more stuffed if we don't do something soon. 

The Ranger ( Double not King) is fine Mark, working it’s arse off at the moment and a proper asset with the recent weather we’ve had up here. For a good few days multi millionaire wealthy selfish farmers and tractors and 4x4 crew cabs was all that was on the road, didn’t help that it came over the Xmas New Year holiday period hence the public sector council gritters and ploughs were nowhere to be seen. 
Thanks for asking. 
Being serious here, I feel neither envy or loathing whatsoever for the Duke of Westminster or anyone else with more than I do, to hell with living your life like that. 
If race baiting is calling out the ludicrous situation where we are allowing in blagging scum that are statistically more likely to attack children,girls and women than our own home grown shite then I’ll take it. 

Edited January 27 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, markieg31 said:

Is it not that the highest earners are interstellar... The CEOs compared to average worker 

21:1 1965

290:1 2023 

 

It's well out of whack. 

 

Bit like Thames water putting up bills, after paying out all that money and I read the other day that 50% of all water pumped gets lost to leaks! Absolutely astonishing!

 

There needs to be more balance. CEOs of companies, when shit hits the fan, seems to saunter off into the sunset with some juicy pension. 

 

 Agree in part, if it’s a private company that has been created and built up etc what they pay the top people is up to them. My views on certain industries ie energy, water, steel etc etc that are essential to every day life and the security of the state is that they should be publicly owned, the salaries being paid in many of these and I include the NHS gravy train are way ott. 

Edited January 27 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Steven P said:

 

No you rightarded idiot. Simple sums laid bare, that was all.

 

Why do you attack when you are astounded by others ability to do simple mathematical sums? Is it out of your envy, or astonishment that others can do what you cannot?

😂😂That’s not an attack wee man, I can assure you the only thing you do that astounds me is this deranged ability to never ever answer any question put to you. Now now SP/TA twisting people’s words and lying  is exactly why you were called out and had your arse handed to you a few days ago. 
Your maths are driven by the exact emotions Mark describes Envy and Loathing 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️the curse of the Leftard mind. 
 

 

Edited January 27 by Johnsond

[sime42]

5 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Yes quite a lot actually.  I agree we are all being played to an extent.  But also many of us are playing.  
 

When someone like Elon Musk creates a company and does very well (let’s remember it will do well only if he provides something many people are willing to pay for) and creates tens of thousands of extremely well paid jobs, is that playing us all?

 

 

And the Prosperity Institute, any thoughts on that? I’d rather the people running our country behind the scenes be a little more transparent, and at least resident in the UK. And certainly not have a Putin taint.

We weren’t talking about Musk specifically, but yes, he’s definitely one of @Oldfeller 's invisible players. Even you will have a hard job defending anything that man does. (Starlink aside). The argument that he is OK because he is providing something that many people are willing to pay for doesn’t stack up. So are the Venezuelan drug traffickers, the writers of social media algorithms aimed at children and junk food pushers. It’s naïve to consider him to be even slightly altruistic. He does very well, at the expense of everyone else.

 “Tens of thousands of well-paid jobs” – are you sure? From what I’ve seen his employees don’t tend to be a happy and contented bunch. He works them to the bone. His car plants are nowhere near the safety standards met by all the other automotive OEMs either, nor the vehicles they make.  And Grok, surely nobody has anything good to say about that abomination. Other than the cognitively challenged who can't form a coherent argument. Outsourcing thought to it is not going to end well. 

We're all being played. Regardless of political ideology. You will have noticed that political divisions are getting wider and deeper all the time; think about who's driving that. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Welshfred]

18 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Ranger

I always fancied swapping out the R for a W on one of those, tyre extinguishers style, just for kicks. It works with two others as well, Thunder (C for T) and Warrior (o for a, sort of). Anyone got any more? 

Edited January 28 by Welshfred

[sime42]

Well, there's the obvious Investment Banker, (W for B). If I've understood the game correctly.

 

 

[sime42]

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