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Ah but it's also easier to justify lower salaried roles for the minions who do the work as "the salary for the CTO is not much higher" forgetting that the actual salary is what is being paid to the bastard with no investment in the business/company/body

Feels unnecessary. Surely money better going to education, nhs or helping people in poverty. Seems like a vanity project.

Paying a market rate for the permanent roles might help to fix this, I submit.

Mr Wallace, popular among Tory members for his handling of the war in Ukraine,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62343011

How the fuck is the UK’s role in support to Ukraine being talked up as “handling of the war”?

Indeed it would, however there is a total lack of rational reasoning by the public here - you'd need to literally double the salary for software engineers in government, for example.
That's simply impossible to do when wages for other roles are so low - why should a nurse be on 1/4 the salary of someone who just types curly braces and aligns whitespace all day?
(hint: they shouldn't - there's a huge wage disparity which needs to be addressed, but the public sector is simply unable to follow the market for a range of nonsense reasons)

What’s the delta between agency+contract+outsourced wages vs the gap between public sector pay and market rate?

Day rate for an "OK" software dev on a contract is about £600-800 last I checked. private sector is probably £80-140k for the same, civil servant more like £40-70k

private sector is probably £80-140k for the same, civil servant more like £40-70k

A lot of companies (until recently) were outsourcing to Russian and Ukrainian devs much cheaper than that.

However, I think that looking at the salary numbers in isolation probably overstates the "like-for-like" economic gap. We have tried to poach devs that have been happy to stay on lower comp in the public sector for employer pension contributions, job security, flexibility / work-life balance etc etc

Turns out throwing your agents phone into the north sea doesn’t get you off being found out for leaking stories.

The whole thing is depressing. But only for the sheer amount of attention paid to, what is essentially, a bad secondary school melo-drama.

I’m sure the Big Fat Quiz of the Year writers are already lining up the primary school kids to act it out for the show.

But thats kind of why it is so fascinating; everyone at very point gave Vardy an off-ramp to avoid this and when even the judge said "don't do it man" and you carry on then as far as I'm concerned its popcorn time.

Agreed. According to David Allen Green, Rooney offered to settle three times, yet Vardy ploughed on and lost.

A salutary lesson in why having your day in court may not turn out as well as you expect.

Awful news from the fens

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I am still surprised that in the UK seemingly serious newspapers still take part in this type of gutter journalism.

Good?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62323048
this is so fucking depressing. No hope for humanity

sorry, was just continuing the conversation. thought it might be an interesting contribution.

not clear yet what the other policies are. But good to see new green parties pop up.

Non of the current political parties offer a credible strategy for climate change. They are a avoiding the elephant in the room which is Capitalism. *

Gemmell states their strategy will be 'business focused'.

• I don't have an answer for how to transition to a new system or what that would look like. But I don't believe meaningful change can happen under the current system.
  

But thats kind of why it is so fascinating; everyone at very point gave Vardy an off-ramp to avoid this and when even the judge said "don't do it man" and you carry on then as far as I'm concerned its popcorn time.

Secondary school melodrama only applies of the general behaviour sinks to that level of pettiness. What a stupid hill to die on.

Is she independently wealthy? or does her husband carry the financial burden of her last stand?

Is she independently wealthy? or does her husband carry the financial burden of her last stand?

'>>> Jane Austen thread

Is she independently wealthy?

Depends what the Sun was paying for her to grass up her mates. I'm guessing not enough to cover even the tiniest portion of her liabilities and poor old Jamie will be playing til he's 50 to keep the wolf from the door.

The Beazer Homes League beckons for his pension years

https://youtu.be/NXxdoyWCLbg

Well, suppose we abandon capitalism but keep using fossil fuels. Climate change will still happen. Or keep cutting the trees like on Easter Island. No capitalism then ;)

But I do agree capitalism often does not help.

The government could go and use a lot of borrowing to do something urgent now. Voila, the £ will drop, inflation goes up and now what? Because the UK buys a lot from abroad so a weak currency sucks.. And the "but my tax money..."

I'm not a huge fan of capitalism as is, it's become utterly dysfunctional, and also boom and bust cycles that mean money go only one way, but I don't have the answer either.

A system of trading time, a good exchange system (I give you X of A for you y of B) or IOU works small scale, but not sure we could scale it. Money is so old now and capitalism so old it's become "the only thing"..

Perhaps it can no longer be "fixed" but unless a lot of countries abandon it together, you will run out of food and technology. International politics is nasty and I don't see all countries go it together.

So I guess I take one man trying to do something to get more green policies voters for now... :)