IIRC, many years ago, the Economist did a survey. They worked out that a fairly reliable definition of “rich” (as in needs to pay more taxes) was something like double the salary (is was 2.2? times o… (View Post)

It’s the incremental nature of most change that is important. For example, HMS Dreadnought was actually both evolutionary and revolutionary. The design was really a continuation of the Lord Nelson’s,… (View Post)

I would also add that the nature of cannabis has changed. When the modern, super strength stuff first appeared, everyone I knew dropped out smoking cannabis very rapidly. I’d say, personally, it was … (View Post)

No Big Bang project has ever worked. The founding of the NHS was, in many ways, incremental on what went before. When the Great NHS IT Contract comedy was at its height, I was an attending a project … (View Post)

Quite a lot of rich people in the U.K. are immigrants. To them, the quality of life vs tax burden is quite transactional. It also goes down the scale. Why should my Indian colleague (in the country 4… (View Post)