35+ years building businesses. First principles. Less friction. More progress. Financial.
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I flick through your tube channels and all I can say is 95% of videos is all doom and gloom.
Is it that people like doomsday narratives?
Why do people find it so hard to be peaceful or happy?
Is this how we are built in our DNA?
The bodies that get most views are disaster stories, how Ai will kill us all, how robots will take all jobs, how we will starve to death in the next 3 years.
Just some example of people’s mentality and yet they 400,000+ views each and no supporting evidence.
So opinions matter when it comes to views, doom loops matter and BS matters.
LyndonX retweeted
“Tax the rich more” sounds simple until the rich leave.
Chris Rokos paid £330 million in UK tax last year, the country’s third-biggest individual taxpayer.
He’s moving his residency to Greece.
Lakshmi Mittal, long one of Britain’s richest, shifted his tax residence to Switzerland and is spending more time in Dubai. Inheritance tax on worldwide assets was a key reason cited after the non-dom changes.
These aren’t abstract cases. When the people who pay the largest cheques decide the friction is too high, the tax base shrinks. The same people who demanded “tax the rich more” then face a smaller pool and look for the next lever.
I’ve built businesses for 35 years. Capital and talent respond to incentives, not slogans. Raise the cost of staying and earning here and a portion of them will simply stop staying and earning here.
The revenue doesn’t automatically follow.
You can keep repeating the mantra. Or you can look at what happens when the highest contributors actually move.
No one can describe “pay their fair share” it’s just a headline with no meaning.
And this is what we pay more and more taxes for!
The state of our country is getting worse by the day.
I don’t mind a little more tax if it really went back to improving things for us all. But to never gets to us, history shows this.
“Tax the rich more” sounds simple until the rich leave.
Chris Rokos paid £330 million in UK tax last year, the country’s third-biggest individual taxpayer.
He’s moving his residency to Greece.
Lakshmi Mittal, long one of Britain’s richest, shifted his tax residence to Switzerland and is spending more time in Dubai. Inheritance tax on worldwide assets was a key reason cited after the non-dom changes.
These aren’t abstract cases. When the people who pay the largest cheques decide the friction is too high, the tax base shrinks. The same people who demanded “tax the rich more” then face a smaller pool and look for the next lever.
I’ve built businesses for 35 years. Capital and talent respond to incentives, not slogans. Raise the cost of staying and earning here and a portion of them will simply stop staying and earning here.
The revenue doesn’t automatically follow.
You can keep repeating the mantra. Or you can look at what happens when the highest contributors actually move.
No one can describe “pay their fair share” it’s just a headline with no meaning.
The UK hype is that more spending equals more progress.
Reality is that most of this does not work. Returns stacked on top of massive friction, energy, debt, regulation and execution risk.
£3T in debt!!! £28BLN added in one month alone.
The countries who win will be the ones who cut the waste, force the ROI and remove the top and middle layers of politicians.
Everyone else is just hoping the next funding round arrives before the music stops.
Stop confusing activity with progress. The bill is already arriving and debt growing.
And the only way they can seem to think is to hike your taxes over and over again.
The budget is almost here and watch what comes next. As the song goes, the only way is up.
LyndonX retweeted
HMRC can now take unpaid tax straight from your bank accounts and Cash ISAs.
Debts over £1,000. No court order needed upfront.
They leave you £5,000 and give you a visit + 30-day objection window, but the power is real and already restarted.
Your money in a bank is not fully yours.
Opt out.
Maybe Self-custody in Bitcoin.
LyndonX retweeted
You’re cheering a $25 billion fine on Meta and calling it accountability.
I’ve built businesses for 35 years. I know what actually kills progress, endless rules, lawyers, and governments that treat success as a crime to be taxed or punished.
Meta screwed up on privacy years ago. Everyone knows that. But a fine this size isn’t justice.
It’s a cash grab that signals to every founder: build something big and we’ll come for you.
The companies that survive will be the ones that move fast, remove friction, and don’t wait for permission.
The ones that get buried in compliance and political theatre will slowly die.
You can keep celebrating every fine and every new rule. Just don’t act surprised when the builders leave and the economy stalls.