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  • Our minimum wage is indeed fairly high, and the taxes that low earners pay is very low, but we do have problems. Wage compression in this country isn’t particularly good. Most people are either minimum wage or close to it.

    Even a lot of highly skilled jobs aren’t highly paid, it’s a problem for the economy, for tax revenue, and for encouraging workers to go for better jobs/strive for progression. I don’t know what the government can do about it, but the answer certainly isn’t to pin it on young people and imply they’re lazy.

    But one thing the government can definitely impact is what you mention at the end of your comment: government policy can certainly help bring down the big costs like property costs (both for people and businesses), energy, water, council tax.








  • When you wake up early, start a long commute, work in a shit job (often with unpredictable hours), have an unpaid lunch break, work some more in your understaffed company, then start the long commute back home to your parents house because you can’t afford a place of your own, then yeah, I can imagine that’s stressful.

    And it gets more so when you open social media or news and it’s always the privileged or the elderly (often they’re even one and the same) constantly shaming youth for being horrible lazy pieces of shit who won’t lift themselves up by their bootstraps.

    The increase in minimum wage is a great thing. As is the incoming increase in workers rights. I won’t sit and pretend Labour are doing nothing. But more needs to be done if you want a mentally healthy workforce.

    Just saying “too many find XYZ stressful” without detailing how you plan to change that isn’t helping.




  • It’s because it goes against the conservative conspiracy theory of trans women simply being men in dresses infiltrating womens’ public toilets and prisons as a means to harass them.

    “And what’s your explanation for the existence of FtM trans, then? What’s their sinister ulterior motive?” is a question they don’t have the answer to, so they straight up pretend FtM doesn’t exist. They’re conveniently ignored.

    It’s fundamentally harder to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt over “women dressed as men” than it is to do it for the inverse.



  • I think there’s a fundamental difference between someone saying “you’re holding your phone wrong, of course you’re not getting a signal” to millions of people and someone saying “LLMs aren’t good at that task you’re asking it to perform, but they are good for XYZ.”

    If someone is using a hammer to cut down a tree, they’re going to have a bad time. A hammer is not a useful tool for that job.





  • Yup. And the problem is, once the perception of law and order is shattered, it takes a disproportionate amount of effort to build it again.

    Tories cut police by over 20,000, then forced the remaining officers into splitting their duties across normal police work and admin/office work. This also happened alongside cuts to the legal system.

    Over time, crime ramped up as people realised they can get away with it, to the point now where plenty of crimes are defacto legalised.

    Even if you bring back those jobs lost (and more, to adjust for the population being 10% higher than it was in 2011), it wouldn’t be enough, because a part of why the crime rate back then was lower was due to the perception you’d be caught even if you in fact may not have been.

    Now police have to overcome perception that you won’t be arrested for committing crimes rather than have perception work with them. Fixing it will cost a lot more than we saved by gutting the police and legal systems.