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by mmarq 4y ago
The truth is that these Ltds were vehicles to avoid taxes, not real businesses. These contractors were effectively employees that managed to get payed in a way that allowed them to avoid taxation. I know people that payed close to 7% total
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by mmarq 4y ago
It was shameful that IT contractors making 800£ per pay paid less taxes than a waiter making 200£ per week. IR35 is probably the only reasonable thing the conservative governments from Cameron onwards have done
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by mmarq 4y ago
I wasn’t referring to the gross salary, but to the lifestyle you get from it. Living in a 80-90sqm flat without carpet or broken stuff, in an area where you have bars and cafes and restaurants and a decent school, plus sending a child to n
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by mmarq 4y ago
Actually salaries have increased significantly in the past 2 years. A senior dev can easily learn up to 120-130K pa. If thats enough to buy you the lifestyle of an office worker in Berlin or Rome, I don’t know. The real issue is cost of pro
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by mmarq 4y ago
Benefits in the UK are barely enough to survive, and only if you have a serious disability that entitles you to the entire package. It’s frankly ridiculous that we expect people to work full time without getting paid enough to live a good l
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by mmarq 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
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by mmarq 4y ago
The right has walked a very long way to end up referring to Friedman as a neoliberal ideologue. This article is a badly written and badly researched piece of nonsense held together by enough name-dropping to look like a half-decent junior h
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by mmarq 4y ago
Fine, it happens also in the US, but it’s not a human universal. I don’t know what the posh supermarket (assuming such notion makes any sense) would be in Rome.
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by mmarq 4y ago
It doesn’t happen everywhere. People in Italy don’t talk about the “working class” like they do in the UK and I’ve never heard anybody claiming they were a member of the “working class”, let alone people claiming that as if it was something
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by mmarq 4y ago
In my experience Britain is an odd case. The school system’s main purpose seems to be to segregate people by class and to perpetuate the class system. One of the results is that “working class” people develop different accents and manners f
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Creating a new language and repeating the "billion dollar mistake" by including null (sailing under the brand name "nil" in Go) is just crazy. You forgot pointers used to represent nullables.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Their stock value is somehow correlated with bitcoin, that suggest the same people are investing in both for similar reasons.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> So was I until I grew out of it. What's your point? That I’m not Nordic nor Protestant. > ... yes? The data is very clear about that including significantly less cars made per employee hour in FIAT's Napoli plant than in,
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by mmarq 4y ago
One would have to admit that Poland is still catching up, otherwise they would have to explain why the UK is doing so bad outside of the eurozone.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Typical Northern Protestant bigotry. As if Italians and Greeks don't have economics courses in college. For your information I am Italian, I won’t reply to the rest of your fantasy, but I have to say that I’m very surprised that t
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by mmarq 4y ago
I hear this quite a lot. Italy received free money, but that was a secret plan of the Germans to take over the country, because they know that Italians are stupid and would destroy their industry and buy lots of Audis. But this eventually d
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by mmarq 4y ago
Germany doesn't cut salaries because it's not the Soviet Union where salaries are centrally planned nor a lady that can change prices turning a knob. Besides, salaries in Germany have been increasing every year in the past 20 year
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by mmarq 4y ago
I mean that Italy, especially the north, has one of the strongest industrial sectors in the EU. It’s not a country that has to reindustrialise and even if it were, it would be doing it by debasing its currency.
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by mmarq 4y ago
To reindustrialise, whatever it is supposed to mean for a country like Italy, has nothing to do with debasing a currency, unless the plan is to surreptitiously cut real salaries and hope nobody will ask for pay rises. They have been doing t
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by mmarq 4y ago
Adults in the UK drink to get drunk, like Italian 15 year olds. It is different for young adults, who are adopting a more “continental” approach to alcohol.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Or, read what Stratfor (if you have a subscription) has been predicting for a decade now: Germany's slow decline, to be replaced as Europe's power center by Poland. The Polish GDP per capita is 30-40% lower than the German. A
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by mmarq 4y ago
> The idea being, why would Italy, France and Greece agree to open their market and give up their currencies (ie ability to devalue) in the face of the German juggernaut? Because they couldn’t manage their currencies and always dreamt of
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Yes, and 5K€ would be even better, too bad that on the other side (the firm income) prices are de facto capped, so it is not possible to pay more the workers, margins in this field are really thin. I'm just saying that if you real
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by mmarq 4y ago
If you have a family it’s probably 4x. 65-70K in Berlin are roughly equivalent to 200K in London.
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by mmarq 4y ago
In the article it says that he’s not going to pay for the driving license, so the part where he says he’d like to keep the worker for 2 years is missing (I was referring to that as indentured labor). Said that, if you can’t find workers, yo
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by mmarq 4y ago
I have similar concerns on go routines. The good thing is that in practice 99% of microservices in line-of-business applications don’t need concurrency, so go routines don’t cause too many problems.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> It is not the UK only, here in Italy there was an entrepreneur (in logistics/transports) who was not finding drivers that pointed out how (for a number of reasons, possibly all of them right) to get nowadays a truck driving licens
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by mmarq 4y ago
Real incomes in the UK are still less than what they were in 2007. That’s unique to the UK, as far as I remember.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> "It's not a business" sure, then wonder why companies are managing ever more properties and private renters prefer renting it through AirBnb Managing an Airbnb is a business, it requires the flat to be cleaned and functi
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Low quality building on large sections spread over a vast area. High infrastructure requirements with low population density. It's not good. This describes perfectly everything built in the UK before 2010.

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