billybong

joined 11 months ago
[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Four members of the richest British family, worth £37bn, have just gotten prison sentences for paying 1/10th the minimum wage to their servants. Paying them a legal wage would've kept them out of prison and been like you or me dropping a penny into a charity box, but they wouldn't do it, even for people that they saw every day. Billionaires are sociopaths.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 8 months ago

It began years ago. That's why things are so bad in Greece, most of the people able to leave have done already in search of a better life and leaving behind a shortage of skilled labour and labour in general. Meanwhile non economically active people, mostly children and retired still need to be supported somehow and unsurprisingly the public finances are in a poor state.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 8 months ago

English is a difficult language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My issue is that it has about double the caffeine content.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Single exit point is an assembly rule that was mindlessly ported to C/C++. It doesn't make sense in a structured language.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 9 months ago

Can be more about how your parents are doing financially that how much they like you.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 11 months ago

Yes. Thatcher sold it off in '89, and since then the private monopolies have accumulated ~£60bn of debts and paid out ~£58bn in dividends. Now they're arguing with the regulator that they should be allowed to pay out more dividends, increase customer fees by 40% and not have to pay as much in fines for dumping raw sewage because otherwise the companies are "uninvestable" and they won't be able to raise the money to pay their debts and will collapse.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A bombs a baad choice for close range combat.

[–] billybong@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 months ago

You don't have a choice. You have to work for them.

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