Is the mainstream media ultimately damaging society?

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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

You never were a ' mature ' student yourself then?
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[Lord Percy]

He isn't a grown up, haha. His brain doesn't stretch much further than playground insults. Very likely the most blocked member on this forum and he still hasn't wised up to how much of a knob he can be. I'd block him myself but his arbitrary outrage towards most subjects and individuals is a good dose of Schadenfreude. It must be difficult being so wound up all the time.

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[Rogerborg]

Wage caps are about punishing winners rather than rewarding losers.

It's fantastical to believe that the boss of Ubercorp (UK) will raise the wages of the prole that licks his private toilet bowl clean in order to give himself a pay rise.

The thing about winners is that they find ways around rules that are inconvenient to them. Right now, today, we've already got firms that outsource their prole staff in order to claim a higher average wage.

But, but, we just need to ban that. And ban contractors. And ban share options. And ban non-salary perks. And ban, and ban, and ban.

Justice requires tyranny. Give in to your anger.
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[Lord Percy]

Instead of the unbreakable back and forth we have over this subject, I'd instead like to ask - why the silence over the Jordan Peterson talk? Cotton mouthed over this right winger's uncomfortable truths about inequality being the root cause of social disharmony? My ideas are clearly unworkable to you, so what's your alternative solution?

[Rogerborg]

I won't risk being addressed by the incorrect pronoun.

My solution is to stop obsessing over meddling, control, punishment and prohibition.

Wealth is created despite regulation, not because of it.
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

5% payrise today

Due to not being on southern wages, it's not as good as it sounds
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[Dave70]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Indeed. Still, there's plenty who get below inflation payrises (if at all). I'm kind of grateful.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

The media's response to old duffer Lord Howard's Falklands War comments with regard to Gibraltar seems to fit this topic. Leaving aside the surprising naivety of the fella in dealing with journalists (-if he'd added that there was no reason to go to war over Gibraltar but he was just highlighting the UK's demonstrable degree of commitment to British Territories there would have been no fuss,) the media joyfully seized on the war aspect and milked it to the max, turning it into an issue which the Spanish felt obliged to comment on. Basically Howard said Gibraltar wasn't at risk from Brexit and the media turned it into an international incident. Happily May lauged it off, which should have been the response in the first place.

Also I think the media's fascination with thick, talentless, narcissistic, young C-list "celebs" who earn more in staged photo-shoots than the top 10% of their generation is damaging in terms of how it influences ambitions.

[Lord Percy]

The media's response to Brexit is farcical in every way.

The line between 'news output' and 'magazine content' has become extremely blurred.

[M.C]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Well, our (non) union seems to be making the bosses reconsider the small rise offered
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[Derivative]

I return on the sauce again.

I notice the non answer to the fact that salary caps or ratios delete social mobility.

So you have capped these salaries and it's perfectly enforced and impossible to avoid.

Is that just it then? You just say that those that currently have more than $(biggest salary percy allows)*(approx 100 years) under the new regime are forever going to be the wealthiest forever?

I'm sure I posted about this before which is why my earlier post was a bit more flippant; but yeah. It seems like something that's actually worse by the same metrics it's designed to improve.

[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

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[Lord Percy]

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