I'd definitely buy albums at a quid. Net result: I'd spend more money that at present, when the last time I bought an album was, oh... over five years ago?
On the other hand, there's the principle that if you make something too cheap, people value it less.
I don't think that "Yaaaaay" adds in any way to your cred as a politically savvy individual.
I know the changes will only really affect badly those making multiple hundreds of thousands a year. But the article seems yet another one setting 100k/yr up as the marker of 'rich'.
I'm kinda tired of the "rich bashing". £100k/yr is NOT fucking rich. It just isn't. I know, I have been there (somewhat over it in fact. Gross. You generally see about a gnat's whisker over half net). It ain't poor, and I won't pretend it's even close to having to be careful (unless you have kids and live in London/the south east and want a house with a garden for them to play in - even then it might take some *seriously* creative budgeting but that's a choice, right?).
Your life still, in general, consists of rocking up to some office or other, sitting your backside down and doing what you are told all day til you die of boredom or exhaustion. It's just that you have managed to position yourself advantageously through a good few years effort, thought and some degree of innate talent at what you do. (though I am, these days, no better at what I do than you are, Andy [it being the same thing], I just prioritised getting paid for it...)
If there's no (or less) reward for the effort why the hell would anyone bother? I suspect fewer will even try....
Even if you earn that level for 10 years it doesn't mean you are set for life in any way shape or form. Disillusioned, me? Nah, don't think I had them in the first place. But it really is not lifechanging levels of dosh. I don't know how to eloquently put that over. You might be able to afford better toys but it's not enough to buy your way out of the system. The life is no better nor worse than when I earned lots less, or indeed nothing at all (though my days of unemployment were a long long time ago, nothing much there seems to have changed). People earning twice, three, four times as much as me tend to have even less life - on 24 hour call on the evil Blackberry and in the office til past ten 6 or even seven days a week, looking ill and stiff and moving like they are 10 years older than they are.
So, maybe lay off the very ordinary dude(ettes) that have had a medium-successful game plan. They are not the enemy and it's not a zero-sum game. Even if it wasn't me (which actually, it isn't right now) I'd not be going "yaaaay". I repeat, they are NOT the enemy.
mum was telling me about watching this being debated in holyrood a few months ago, and how some MSPs refused to believe this existed beyond a handful of cases. she said the battleaxe female MSPs seemed to especially struggle with the concept. :>
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andrewducker) wrote2010-10-15 12:01 pm
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On the other hand, there's the principle that if you make something too cheap, people value it less.
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I don't think that "Yaaaaay" adds in any way to your cred as a politically savvy individual.
I know the changes will only really affect badly those making multiple hundreds of thousands a year. But the article seems yet another one setting 100k/yr up as the marker of 'rich'.
I'm kinda tired of the "rich bashing". £100k/yr is NOT fucking rich. It just isn't. I know, I have been there (somewhat over it in fact. Gross. You generally see about a gnat's whisker over half net). It ain't poor, and I won't pretend it's even close to having to be careful (unless you have kids and live in London/the south east and want a house with a garden for them to play in - even then it might take some *seriously* creative budgeting but that's a choice, right?).
Your life still, in general, consists of rocking up to some office or other, sitting your backside down and doing what you are told all day til you die of boredom or exhaustion. It's just that you have managed to position yourself advantageously through a good few years effort, thought and some degree of innate talent at what you do. (though I am, these days, no better at what I do than you are, Andy [it being the same thing], I just prioritised getting paid for it...)
If there's no (or less) reward for the effort why the hell would anyone bother? I suspect fewer will even try....
Even if you earn that level for 10 years it doesn't mean you are set for life in any way shape or form. Disillusioned, me? Nah, don't think I had them in the first place. But it really is not lifechanging levels of dosh. I don't know how to eloquently put that over. You might be able to afford better toys but it's not enough to buy your way out of the system. The life is no better nor worse than when I earned lots less, or indeed nothing at all (though my days of unemployment were a long long time ago, nothing much there seems to have changed). People earning twice, three, four times as much as me tend to have even less life - on 24 hour call on the evil Blackberry and in the office til past ten 6 or even seven days a week, looking ill and stiff and moving like they are 10 years older than they are.
So, maybe lay off the very ordinary dude(ettes) that have had a medium-successful game plan. They are not the enemy and it's not a zero-sum game. Even if it wasn't me (which actually, it isn't right now) I'd not be going "yaaaay". I repeat, they are NOT the enemy.
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mum was telling me about watching this being debated in holyrood a few months ago, and how some MSPs refused to believe this existed beyond a handful of cases.
she said the battleaxe female MSPs seemed to especially struggle with the concept. :>