{"id":73454,"date":"2023-12-17T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=73454"},"modified":"2023-12-17T08:31:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:31:32","slug":"the-truth-as-heard-out-of-very-expensive-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/12\/17\/the-truth-as-heard-out-of-very-expensive-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth, as heard out of very expensive speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/028d9968-2d6d-4e8c-affb-d36d4986cbae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FT had a headline yesterday<\/a> that said this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-17-at-08.25.02-550x242.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-17-at-08.25.02-550x242.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-17-at-08.25.02-768x339.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-17-at-08.25.02-600x264.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-17-at-08.25.02.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the truth comes out of the mouths of babes.<\/p>\n<p>B&amp;O make speakers costing more than \u00a3100,000. It seems that they chose to use them instead to broadcast their version of the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so, they succinctly summarise why the world is going to hell in a handcart.<\/p>\n<p>Excess consumption by a few, driven by growing inequality, is going to destroy our planet for human habitation unless we change course.<\/p>\n<p>And, it would seem B&amp;O are saying they'd rather that destruction than question their source of profits in the interests of humankind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT had a headline yesterday that said this: Sometimes, the truth comes out of the mouths of babes. B&amp;O make speakers costing more than<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/12\/17\/the-truth-as-heard-out-of-very-expensive-speakers\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73456,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73454\/revisions\/73456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}