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Not necessarily. Basic food is zero-rated for VAT, and if you qualify you can get council tax reduction. For example, I get a 25% council tax discount. If you're unemployed with no…

article says broke for temporary, these people poor 10-20 years. that doesnt sounds like temporary. they get government or familiy support, and rarely work short term here and ther…

> You need to cross a threshold of (income/purchasing power) to be able to start building things that matter. It's extremely difficult these days because the denominator there is a…

I have poor friends, they spend more on Netflix, Gym, Starbucks, IPhones, steam games etc then me, and they are poor for atleast last 10-20 years. I almost never have any of these …

put some prerendered videos, few of the good ones.

We invent machines to free ourselves from labour, yet we’ve built an economy where freedom from labour means losing your livelihood.

Because of these "digital footprint checks" now nobody can truly say what they want online. Either you have to put on a fake persona or just go completely silent. It’s self-censors…

I didnt read the article but how you do is, you should create new column without deleting the old one, and your code should be updated to use the new column, once you phase out the…

i'm not the person you replied but if wages lag furhter, how rents going up? it should go down since there is noone to be able to pay higher rents. they have no choice but either c…

> net benefit for humanity Some people might argue that wealth concentrated in the top 1% is a net benefit if you look at it as one big pool of resources. But will the remaining 99…

They do not need to service debt using taxable income, they can roll it over indefinitely or until death, at which point the tax obligation disappears due to the stepped-up basis (…

I think because they don't get any dividend to trigger income tax, instead they get a loan against their shares and spend that and roll over the debt to infinity.

Investors pouring money, its probably impossible to go out of business, at least for the big ones, until investors realise this is wrong hill to die on.

there are AI summary plugins that summarize youtube videos for you. instead of watching 1 hour video, you can get the summary in 15 seconds. this one I use but there are plenty of …

air conditioned trains are an achivement in 2023?

RIP birds, otherwise enemy will just lunch bird-like drones

obviously It wont help from that moment you evicted but if you dont have emergency funds to cover your next 12 months, I would downsize on life style, even go vanlife to save up to…

install "ublock origin" and enable "annoyances" from settings.

will lower taxes and interest rates. Right? (MEME)

what if a user copied a line from AP on a reddit comment and some LLM trained on it.

probably nobody felt Salomon Brothers impacted their life but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod and YouTube put together. -Big Short

I believe romans solved that problem a while back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_roads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Streets_of_Pompeii_(1...

anybody could be part of the system knowingly or unknowingly. so the best is to always stay anon and trust nobody. all of the system should be designed bullet proof anonymity just …

or they don't trust the system and want to stay anon to exercise their free speach