I know this article isn't wildly creative. Everybody knows this stuff already, blah, blah, blah. But learning about the insane income tax in Great Britain between the 1960s and 1980s forced me to write this. I love English rock music. What I learned is that Britain was charging at least 83%, going as high as 95%, on the high incomes of young music groups like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, and Queen.
When you think about a country with such a long history of governance—with its venerable House of Lords and Commons—setting such insane taxes is mind-boggling. I don't think even a European ruler during the Middle Ages would dare to charge taxes like that. It would instantly trigger a civil uprising, and as a result, the ruler would end up collecting even less tax than before.
Even today, I hear people constantly complaining about their government's wrong decisions. So, this type of insanity has not vanished, and it seems it never will. As an engineering architect, I try to solve engineering problems to improve a country's energy, military, and space sovereignty. However, if the decision-makers will not take relevant actions, my solutions mean absolutely nothing.
As a result, I can conclude that the solutions to the problems of developed nations on energy, defense, space, and other subjects rely entirely on the rationalism of politicians. So, the challenges we face are not actually problems of science or engineering.
BUT human-related.
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