04 Thu Dec 2025
Posted in Inform, educate and entertain.
Martyn Richard Jones
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren Buffett
Continue reading08 Sat Nov 2025
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deception, Economics, fake, history, lies, Philosophy, Politics, propaganda, vulgarity, writing
Sir Afilonius Rex and Vanessa Bell
Bloomsbury, London, 8th November 2025
Calling Bullshit on Fakery
A LinkedIn post by Thorsten Wunde (or “WundeThorsten”) shared a viral anecdote claiming to illustrate why “socialism always fails.” The story presents an economics professor in Sweden. He fails an entire class after averaging the grades to simulate socialist equality. This action leads to widespread laziness and eventual collapse. It concludes with a moral: When half the population realises they can slack off, the nation is in danger. The other half sees no reward for effort. This marks the end of every nation. This tale aims to serve as compelling evidence of socialism’s inherent flaws. However, it is deeply problematic on several levels. It is factually, logically, and empirically flawed. It’s a classic example of a fabricated parable. It is dressed up as real-world evidence. This story has been circulating online since at least 2009. It appears as chain emails and memes, often tied to U.S. politics (e.g., “Obama’s socialism”). Below, we’ll break it down systematically.
Continue reading23 Wed Apr 2025
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data, Economics, economy, finance, information, knowledge, News, Politics, social-justice, Tax evasion, tax-haven, taxation, wisdom, world-asset-register
Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, 22nd April 2025 – Buy Revealing Wealth
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren Buffett[1]
Continue reading09 Wed Apr 2025
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capitalism, Economics, empire, grand-strategy, history, imperialism, neoliberalism, Philosophy, Politics, share-the-poverty
Neoliberalism: A Reflection
Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, 9th April 2025
In a compelling lecture by Enrique Javier Díez, a respected professor at the University of León, he opened with the well-worn Chinese proverb: “Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.” A familiar refrain, often invoked in discussions of education and empowerment, it was a fitting start — but Díez, with the precision of a seasoned academic and the urgency of a citizen deeply attuned to the injustices of our time, was not content to leave it there.
Continue reading11 Fri Aug 2017
Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 11th August 2017
What will the UK look like ‘post-Brexit?
Will Brexit result, as I read on Twitter, in the UK “taking back what we never lost to lose everything we currently have.”?
My concern is about what could happen to the people in the UK when we have finally run-away from Europe.
With Brussels gone, with the EU and the Single Market gone, with our EU citizenship ripped from our cold dead hands, who will Brexiteers have to complain about once we have become an isolated, tiny and populous ex-colonialist island to the east of New Jersey?
06 Mon Oct 2014
Posted in Best principles, Big Data, Creativity, Executive, Knowledge, Management
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Analytics, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Dogma, Economics, Financial, Goal Setting, Marketing, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster 2026
Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.
Last week, we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.
He’d been with us for years.
GOOD STRATEGY 