I detest the concept that we need yet another "law" before we can actual enforce anything. There are plenty of laws being broken already, we should go and prosecute them before we start making up new ones to ignore.

Unlicensed, unmaintained, motorized vehicles on pedestrian paths, a miracle no one has been killed yet.

It's kind of insane, and is a microcosm of the UK's inability to do anything.

- Everyone hates them, from residents, to businesses, to the tourists that get harassed by them.

- There are multiple laws, that if the police wanted to, they could enforce at any time.

- Nothing gets done.

It is an impressive level of apathy from an already toothless government.

Perfect.

The marginal tax rate for 100k -> 125k is 60% (due to losing the ~£12k tax free allowance)

  "Your personal allowance goes down by £1 for every £2 that your adjusted net income is above £100,000. This means your allowance is zero if your income is £125,140 or above."

Try and maintain that for as long as you can.

ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year.

Highest it's been since 1980

Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test to me.

1.5B people is ~ 20% of the world population, and probably closer to 50% of those with computers & internet capable of downloading reddit.com, an image heavy forum.

I'm in the demographic for Reddit (30s, male, western country), and I think maybe 10% of my friends, family & coworkers even know what Reddit is, let along are an MAU.

Boy do I have the product for you!

https://www.nreal.ai/air/

Exists, in the real world, shipping from Amazon, many reviews on YouTube.

They would have to outlaw personal computing, and not allow you to build your own servers with no firmware-enforced filtering, which given the current direction, is not particularly farfetched, but at that point battle is lost anyway and your DVD rips are the least of your problems.

/r/wallstreetbets has 13.5 million subscribers.

> On the other hand, something that's cute will be far more memorable and much easier to say.

Citation needed?

How is easier to associate with "Ingest, Processing, & Storage of Thing" than ?

EDIT: On closer inspection, I think this is intentional HN rage bait.

> I still want to participate in the collective modern culture ... so somethings got to give.

Same comment applies to this forum. I want to participate in discussions on HN, and therefore I am subject to the occasional job ad from YC companies. It's not perfect, but it's a bit facetious to compare that to the attention grabbing of Youtube/Amazon, etc who will intentionally curtail my efforts to find content I want, in lieu of something they want to promote.

Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in house creations etc).

My attention is not for sale, I'll buy content if it is sold in a manner that is attractive to me in a consumer friendly model, Louis CK selling his standup specials on his own website come to mind, otherwise I won't bother.

The problem is there's no end game for these companies, if you agree to buy something, they'll stop selling it and sell you a subscription instead. If you buy the subscription, they'll chuck ads in front of the subscribed service, and then periodically cut off access to certain content in an effort to maximize their own profit. There's no way to manage you're own library, you're subject to whatever the shareholders think they can keep squeezing out of you. On top of that, even if I yield to them completely, I still have to run their DRM blobs on my computing devices for the priviledge.

It's "amoral" to pirate in my worldview, but these companies are equally amoral. I still want to participate in the collective modern culture of tv, movies, etc, so somethings got to give.

We used remote.com, they charge a sizable fee (like 600 quid a month), but the net costs come out about even after considering other costs. You still have to pay for the whatever the local countries requirements are for e.g: holiday pay, sick leave, redundancies etc, but I think it's a decent system.

I suspect the costs will come down quite quickly as it scales/has more competitors.