Popular people didn't see themselves as popular, they just had a lot of friends from their perspective. Social structures are only really visible from the bottom-up.
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Yeah 100% it's just an action that might result in the tax take being lower than expected
Real phenomenon in economics! I should have stipulated that it's as real as anything else in economics is - all of it is theoretical.
The laffer curve is a real phenomenon. I won't die on the hill that it would happen in this case but it's still something to consider when raising taxes.
Agree that people making all the noise about relocating haven't actually done it. Was a bad example! People doing things like increasing their pension contributions to avoid going over 100k and losing their tax free allowance is a more concrete example.
I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK
There's a director's cut like version of Alien 3 that fixes many of the issues (and unfortunately creates a few new ones)
It's definitely underrated due to a Seinfeld Effect like phenomenon where everyone feels like they've seen it - even when they haven't.
I prefer El Topo to Holy Mountain as it has more of a uh script. Looks like they had a lot of fun filming the latter though!
Both of them are worth taking the time to watch though. Nothing else quite like them.
Shaun of the Dead is so good! I can't believe I missed it from my list. Pretty much anything by Edgar Wright is amazing, I even enjoyed Midnight In Soho, which was his weird Giallo horror tribute.
- La Haine
- City of God
- Alien
- The Shining
- 2001 Space Odyssey
- The Exorcist
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Blue Velvet
- 12 Angry Men
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- The 39 Steps (Hitchcock original)
- The Third Man
- Some Like It Hot
- Royal Tenenbaums
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- Shaun of the Dead
- The Act of Killing
- Nosferatu (1979)
- Yojimbo
- Rashomon
- A Serious Man
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I think the issue is that once you've got the extra money there are more pressing things to spend it on. Public transport is great but hard to say no to health and education.
Then there's the broader issue of the laffer curve where raising taxes can yield less than you'd expect because people start to re-locate by buying a bungalow in England to claim as their main residence.
Practical effects in Carpenter's remake of The Thing are hard to beat