highest paid boss in the uk

[kenny g]

Comes from wealth created by workers at the end of the day.
Liberating it for the people is the right thing to do.

I smell a marxist If someone gives someone a tomato seed and charges 10% end result tax and the someone plants the tomato seed, sells the tomatoes and gives 10% of the tomatoes to the person who gave the seeds then I reckon the tomato seed giver has cleaner money than someone who plants a field of tomatoes, starts a lottery and then fucks over 90%. May be the same end result but it certainly feels different!

 

[8ball]

I smell a marxist If someone gives someone a tomato seed and charges 10% end result tax and the someone plants the tomato seed, sells the tomatoes and gives 10% of the tomatoes to the person who gave the seeds then I reckon the tomato seed giver has cleaner money than someone who plants a field of tomatoes, starts a lottery and then fucks over 90%. May be the same end result but it certainly feels different!

It's not fucking over anyone if people know the probability of winning the lottery and the prize scheme.
The first person is just a rentier.

 

[kenny g]

It's not fucking over anyone if people know the probability of winning the lottery and the prize scheme.
The first person is just a rentier.

The fact that people know they are unlikely to win the lottery doesn't make it smell any better.

 

[8ball]

The fact that people know they are unlikely to win the lottery doesn't make it smell any better.

Would you also feel the same about people organising sweepstakes?

 

[kenny g]

Would you also feel the same about people organising sweepstakes?

Yes.

 

[8ball]

Yes.

Well, there we are.

 

[kenny g]

Well, there we are.

Indeed. I take it you may think I am slightly on the unreasonable spectrum in my position? In which case I would ask whether you would suggest a sweep stake winner has earned their winnings in a comparable way to an inventor , designer or worker?

 

[8ball]

Indeed. I take it you may think I am slightly on the unreasonable spectrum in my position? In which case I would ask whether you would suggest a sweep stake winner has earned their winnings in a comparable way to an inventor , designer or worker?

Why you think the answer to that is of any relevance has a pretty low curiosity value to me.

Not zero, exactly. But close.

 

[kenny g]

Why you think the answer to that is of any relevance has a pretty low curiosity value to me.

Not zero, exactly. But close.

Well, there we are.

 

[cybershot]

Clearly £220m a year isn't enough.

Betting boss Denise Coates hits £323m jackpot

 

[8ball]

Clearly £220m a year isn't enough.

Betting boss Denise Coates hits £323m jackpot

Why not?

Maybe it's exactly enough, with £123 million left over for fripperies.

 

[kabbes]

It’sa victory for feminism because she's a woman. Everything is okay now.

 

[hash tag]

Fallon Sherrock scored a victory for feminism last night

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Denise Coates and her family make me wish that Christians are right, and that they’ll be given a camel to take through the eye of a needle to get in to heaven. Sadly I suspect they are wibbling morons and she’ll just enjoy a life of unbridled luxury gained from the massive suffering of thousands of others.

 

[weltweit]

Clearly £220m a year isn't enough.

Betting boss Denise Coates hits £323m jackpot

Clearly I was wrong, there are winners from gambling!

 

[hash tag]

Many people make fortunes on the misery of others. Mike Ashley, Tim Martin, Jeff Bezos Etc. Etc.

 

[kabbes]

I don’t think you can compare buying stuff with betting though

 

[hash tag]

People can be addicted to shopping just like they can be like gambling.
Many people made fortunes on the back of slaving.

 

[8ball]

Many people make fortunes on the misery of others. Mike Ashley, Tim Martin, Jeff Bezos Etc. Etc.

Tim Martin the seller of affordable booze?

 

[StoneRoad]

There must be a lot of people pursuing the dream of getting rich quick by gambling away their resources, despite the current perilous state of the economy. Even more than last year.

 

[hash tag]

Tim Martin the seller of affordable booze?

Does he pay his staff well?
Does he pay his suppliers well?
Does he help fuel people's addictions?

 

[Teaboy]

Tim Martin the seller of affordable booze?

Yeah, I don't much care for the bloke himself but unless you're taking a puritanical / Hogarth attitude towards boozing providing cheap pubs isn't the crime of the century. With pubs dying out everywhere Wetherspoons are hanging in there and still selling beer pretty bloody cheap plus they've pretty good custodians of some beautiful old buildings.

I'm not saying Wetherspoons are some sort of saints (far from it) but they provide a valued service I reckon.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There must be a lot of people pursuing the dream of getting rich quick by gambling away their resources, despite the current perilous state of the economy. Even more than last year.

I don't think there's any 'despite' about it, I think there's a direct causal link between people's declining prospects and all sorts of compulsive escapist behaviour, gambling included.

 

[8ball]

Does he help fuel people's addictions?

<not a good time to mention that I work in the pharmaceuticals sector - *literally* making money off the back of misery...>

 

[Teaboy]

Does he pay his staff well?

Which service industry does? Though I once met an area manager who was loving it and earning well. I know we don't like managers here but he started on the bar.

Does he pay his suppliers well?

A company the size of the spoons is not going to be dealing with many small suppliers lets face it. Suppliers set their own costs and I'd be more bothered about how good a payer they are. IME this is far more important as its the whole profit v cashflow thing

Does he help fuel people's addictions?

Problem drinking in this country has very little to do with pubs. Wetherspoons are nothing compared to cheap booze on offer from shops.

 

[Teaboy]

<not a good time to mention that I work in the pharmaceuticals sector - *literally* making money off the back of misery...>

Most of my friends work in Pharma and my g/f works in the wider pharma industry. That one is complicated.

 

[8ball]

Most of my friends work in Pharma and my g/f works in the wider pharma industry. That one is complicated.

I'm in the tech end of it but yeah, complicated. Would be nice to see root and branch reform of the industry.

 

[Sprocket.]

They were excusing her on 5live earlier, saying she pays her income tax £120million this year, gives over £75 million to charity and employs 3000 workers. So it’s all okay and stuff those with gambling problems. Currently more with gambling problems than registered Class A addicts.

 

[hash tag]

Which service industry does? Though I once met an area manager who was loving it and earning well. I know we don't like managers here but he started on the bar.


A company the size of the spoons is not going to be dealing with many small suppliers lets face it. Suppliers set their own costs and I'd be more bothered about how good a payer they are. IME this is far more important as its the whole profit v cashflow thing



Problem drinking in this country has very little to do with pubs. Wetherspoons are nothing compared to cheap booze on offer from shops.

I was simply using TM as a throw away example of many people you could choose from, who make vast profits in the backs of others. I did not mention small suppliers. He could well be screwing large suppliers as he will be a major purchaser of eggs, bacon, potatoes, steak Etc.

 

[8ball]

They were excusing her on 5live earlier, saying she pays her income tax £120million this year, gives over £75 million to charity and employs 3000 workers. So it’s all okay and stuff those with gambling problems. Currently more with gambling problems than registered Class A addicts.

With these gambling apps, and smartphones and memes and all these things competing for our attention and money, doling out tiny hits of the old reward chemical, it wouldn't surprise me if this age in history comes to be known as the 'dopamine decades'.