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RadoX said:
Explain to me why you cant be self employed yet have a boss who delegates what jobs you should be doing ? if im going to put 2 rsjs in my boss tells me first where they go and then pays me directly when there done therefore self employed.
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You're a contractor - who seems to be exclusively subcontracting for some other bloke. In doing so you're essentially acting more like an employee than someone running his own business.

edit - I guess you're in a grey area - Whether you're self employed or not is probably more a question for people more familiar with tax etc.. than me though.
 
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Globul said:
I'm not saying I necessary agree with what they are protesting for, or some of their actions, but, to be honest, stereo typing isn't on and you guys really have ruined the opportunity to ask some serious question about what they were doing and why to a guy who has been there and experienced it. Some times, you guys are too judgemental. But then again, I am a little on the hippy side
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This is RadoX we're speaking about here...
 
bam0 said:
I realise by linking to another Guardian article I'll probably get written off as some kind of loon and that therefore any opinion I hold is automatically invalid, but I found it quite interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/07/one-per-cent-wealth-destroyers

A couple of noteworthy excerpts

Between 1947 and 1979, productivity in the US rose by 119%, while the income of the bottom fifth of the population rose by 122%. But from 1979 to 2009, productivity rose by 80%, while the income of the bottom fifth fell by 4%. In roughly the same period, the income of the top 1% rose by 270%.
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Isn't that just the law of diminishing returns? If the bottom fifth earn almost nothing it's really quite easy for the income to rise by 122%. But then once the bottom fifth actually earns an amount of money they can live on, buy cars on and get cable TV on, then massive percentage gains in income became less easy to acheive.

It's just logic, right?

This whole top 1% thing is just irrelevent. The sample size is too small - well, its 1% - therefore it will be filled with the elite who have the capital to invest in huge projects/investments etc. If you have a sample size of 1 person and he doubles his money in an investment then wow, look how well he's doing compared to everyone else. It's just daft and pointless numbers.

And lets face it, we are all the 1% when compared with the entire planets population..
 
dowie said:
You're a contractor - who seems to be exclusively subcontracting for some other bloke. In doing so you're essentially acting more like an employee than someone running his own business.
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indeed depending on the job sometimes the customer pays me sometimes he does depends if were on pricework or daywork. we mostly do pricework.
 
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