Kris Carter retweeted
This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...
"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."
"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."
No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state
It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need
@griffitha @LiamHalligan
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Kris Carter retweeted
This is exactly the kind of entitlement that fuels the perception of a cartel in football. A manager succeeds at a so called “lesser” club, and the conversation immediately shifts to which traditional giant should take him away.
Then people wonder why there’s a sense that ambitious clubs outside the established elite are kept at arm’s length. The assumption is always that the bigger name deserves the best of what the others build.
Kris Carter retweeted
My friend just raised money for his new startup
€80k round
I was the lead investor (I put in €2.4k)
He's already deployed most of the funds, hiring 2 marketers, 3 engineers, and 17 compliance people
Has enough runway for about 18 months to fund payroll for this small, scrappy team
They are currently pre-product and pre-revenue
I urged him to hire another compliance officer instead of the 2nd marketer, but otherwise I'm happy with his decisions so far
Love seeing young founders build promising teams here in the EU
Kris Carter retweeted
Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you damage yourselves.
I hear you've now nerfed your models so that when people try to use them to clean the spamware and spyware out of their televisions, you block that.
If you really want Chinese open-weight models and open-source projects like OpenWaldo to eat your lunch, crippling your models so that people paying expensive subscriptions can't use them for completely legitimate purposes is a great way to accomplish this.
If, on the other hand, you'd rather have a volume business, maybe stupid arbitrary restrictions that look like they have the sole purpose of protecting corporate sleazeballs aren't such a good idea.
A word to the wise should be sufficient.
Kris Carter retweeted
No. The scariest thing here is what HMRC considers wealthy.
£200k/pa
OR
£2M in ASSETS
And apparently, out of a population of £68ish million inhabitants, there are only 850,000 of these 'wealthy'.
We are so irredeemably fucked.
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Kris Carter retweeted
🗣Souness: "Its cruel on #ManCity. This is because of FFP, set up by the big clubs to protect big clubs. They've said, 'We are the big guys, we generate the most, let's set up a rule that prevents City buying the best players and we're not the big boys anymore.' Its jealousy" 👏
Kris Carter retweeted
While I appreciate a £200k salary is rare in Britain
Calling managers in banks & tech companies on PAYE “wealthy” and pulling them in for a face to face is absolutely wild
Kris Carter retweeted
For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️
Kris Carter retweeted
Bill Maher nails it on Britain’s welfare addiction here.
“The UK has had seven Prime Ministers in ten years. That’s because no politician can be what the people want: a genius who figures out how to give out endlessly more money with ever less working people.”
Kris Carter retweeted
So good 🤣
A summary of the Investor Proposal Meeting, including a full replay and the 60-page Member information pack ℹ️
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