We have, in other words, chosen to monetise our YouTube channel.
But, but, advertising is the very spawn of the devil as it creates unrequited desires and consumerism which then destroys the natural world! To the point that advertising should be taxed out of existence, amiwrite?
Just the cost of keeping the blog going, including web hosting, mailing, tech support, all the software fees, and the hardware costs (which are not inconsiderable, as I need access wherever I am) comes to quite a lot each year. Employing Thomas as a videographer has tipped that over into a potential lossmaking scenario, at present.
Antinomianism at its best, eh?
I’m pretty sure that the potato taught me that advertising cruelly tricks us plebs in to buying stuff we don’t need and are bad for us.
Tim
He looks to ban all advertising related to children in ‘The Courageous State’ – in subsequent Blog entries this was extended to all advertising on environmental grounds. Rather like his donors being allowed to remain anonymous he feels different rules apply to him – after all he is ‘the number one economics blogger’ in the U.K.
Yes I thought so – ironically the potato made a youtube post about how bad advertising is
I believe we have to change if we’re going to become sustainable. And the quickest and easiest way to achieve that goal is to say that advertising is not a universally good thing. Most of it isn’t. In fact, except for the small ads in newspapers, I can’t think of anything that is.
including web hosting, mailing, tech support, all the software fees,
Boo whoo. I run several websites. Cost me under a hundred quid a year per. The web-builder ware was a one off £70. Haven’t bothered about renewing it for 5 years because there’s nothing on the newer versions I’d use. Any other ware I need is freeware. Hardware is a refurbished lighting fast Dell desktop stuffed with memory & a 14TB drive for backup, cost me 250 for the lot 4 years ago. I have laptops but wouldn’t use them for webwork. They’re just not the tool. To be efficient you need multiple displays.*
His key problem is being a technologically incompetent moron.
*Don’t know if anyone else has done this, but I use the old 4:3 displays orientated in portrait. Because they’re better for A series document formats. And the advantage you can pick them up s/h virtually for nothing. The video card drives 4 of them for a wrap-around workstation.
He’s lying. He appealed for donations to cover the cost of the blog and get about £10k per year – the idea that he spends that amount on web hosting and IT support is laughable. It looks like he is creating a non-job for his son.
Let’s have another look at his income:
Per latest Companies House accounts, he gets:
£17k from Tax Research LLP – 90% of their income of £19k
£32k from Finance for the Future LLP (51.7% of their net income of £52k, mostly from the Polden Puckham Trust).
£14k salary from the Corporate Accountability Network
Plus a salary from Sheffield University for a day a week, say 20% of £70k = £14k, and the state pension as he is now 66 (£11k).
That adds up to nearly £90k – so why is he short of money?
I wouldn’t put it past him to be paying over the odds for everything, because he hasn’t a clue.
“Employing Thomas as a videographer has tipped that over into a potential lossmaking scenario, at present.”
I do hope Murphy is registered as an employer and applying PAYE and employer’s NICs as he’s implying that Thomas is an employee.
Or will he be evading tax by saying that Thomas is really self-employed?
Cvnt.
And paying national minimum wage for hours worked too, which could be a lot.
O/T
I was referred to this graph showing train drivers pay in European countries for 2021. I imagine the recent UK pay increase has widened the gap. I’m so heartened that our drivers are paid almost 2 x those in most other comparable countries. I assume it’s because they are so good they can drive two trains at once.
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/12/23/train-strikes-these-are-the-countries-that-pay-train-drivers-the-most-and-the-least-in-eur
“That adds up to nearly £90k – so why is he short of money?”
Maybe he’s paying nearly £40k gross into pensions to avoid higher rate tax. That wouldn’t be tax avoidance – oh no. Just mitigation, don’cha see?
But how are you going to get all the latest top of the range Apple shiny for £100pa?
And if you can’t be arsed to set up something like that and get it online 24/7, hosting a simple website costs around £10/mo from any of hundreds of suppliers.
If he thinks that the advertising revenue from YT is going to cover the costs of running it, then I think he’s going to be an unhappy bunny. Payment per 1000 pageviews seem to be in the <$1 range unless you have some really interesting content. Of course he could resort to some ‘interesting’ methods to boost the pageviews. He may have the moral fibre to go there but he hasn’t got the tech chops.
BraveFart: «as he’s implying that Thomas is an employee. »
I think you’ll find that Thomas is a tankengine.
BF: Dodgy article. It starts by asking about train drivers’ pay, and then before even drawing breath screeeeeches into what train drivers earn.
I don’t think you can make a living from angry videos where anybody who mildly disagrees gets banned from commenting. Let’s see how the experiment goes.
@ TMB
As a self-driving engine Thomas should be getting the ASLEF rate for drivers which is a little over half Murphy’s *declared* income, which is presumably why he’s tipped the blog into being loss-making
Tractor Gent: I’m just watching a bloke giving a “state of the channel” talk right now. I was about to post a screenshot of his analytics, but of course you can’t do that here. Anyway, 34k views over three weeks on a half-hour video: £80. He has twice as many subscribers as Murphy.
Spud’s videos are all under 10 minutes, and some of them have less than 1,000 views. So… yeeaaah.
BraveFart,
Not that I want to make excuses for Spud, but employing someone to do a task is also a figure of speech. I recently employed a plumber to replace some pipes.