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[15. Maijs 2025|11:37] |
Londonas mērs Sadiks Hans intervijā radio LBC:
"A skilled migrant’s family will contribute to the British economy £12,000 a year even when you take away the public services they use,” Mr Khan said. “A British skilled worker’s family takes from the economy £4,400 when you include the public services they use.”
Tātad, ja kāds ir vainīgs pie sliktas ekonomikas, tad tās ir britu ğimenes lol. Es saprotu kāpēc tik daudziem Hans nepatīk, jo viņš basically saka vietējiem: you're shit. Tai pat laikā ir viņš sēž mēra amatā jau devīto gadu.
P.S. "British skilled worker" statistikā ir iekļauti visi UK dzimušie, kas ir pieauguši, ieskaitot pensionārus, savukārt imigrantu statistika ir balstīta tikai uz pirmo gadu, kura laikā viņi nav vēl tiesīgi prasīt pabalstus.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2024/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2024-accessible#chapter-2-fiscal-analysis-of-skilled-worker-visa |
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[15. Maijs 2025|12:12] |
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
Moralists and theologians place great weight upon the moment of conception, seeing it as the instant at which the soul comes into existence. If, like me, you are unmoved by such talk, you still must regard a particular instant, nine months before your birth, as the most decisive event in your personal fortunes. It is the moment at which your consciousness suddenly became trillions of times more foreseeable than it was a split second before. To be sure, the embryonic you that came into existence still had plenty of hurdles to leap. Most conceptuses end in early abortion before their mother even knew they were there, and we are all lucky not to have done so. Also, there is more to personal identity than genes, as identical twins (who separate after the moment of fertilization) show us. Nevertheless, the instant at which a particular spermatozoon penetrated a particular egg was, in your private hindsight, a moment of dizzying singularity. It was then that the odds against your becoming a person dropped from astronomical to single figures."
Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow |
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[15. Maijs 2025|12:31] |
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Are you more scared of artificial intelligence or natural stupidity? |
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