Why is the commit frame not sufficient to determine whether the transaction was fully written or not? Is there a scenario where the commit frame is fsynced to disk but the proceeding data isn't?
> The data in the article proves Gary's point. Not only is income tax brought in less now, but more taxes are VAT
Does the article data show that? Looking at the tax % graph the ratio between Income+NI and VAT+Stamp duties has been pretty constant (apart from a brief time in the 70s)
> In other words, the poorer people in society are taking on a bigger share of taxes.
Seems unlikely. The article shows that high earners are paying are far greater share of income tax. Poorer people would need to be buying a crazy amount more stuff to offset that with VAT.
The UK is in a fairly unique position where its GDP per capita has been stagnant for decades. Which means it's slowly sinking under inflation. It's been going on for so long that the people at the bottom of the boat are now drowning (which I agree is deeply unfair). But no amount of redistributing people between the decks is going to actually fix the problem.
They give a lot of characters/vbucks away for free. I have a whole list of skins (including the 3 you mentioned) and have never spent any actual money on fortnite.
I can't deny they've made a crazy amount of money from convincing teenage boys that it's cool to buy outfits and play virtual dress-up. But compared to the must-have items of my youth at least you aren't excluded if you have no money.
