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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Equallity, the soul food
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/opinion/02kristof.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
Joe Romm at Climate Progress is one of my daily must reads….today’s lead article about the floods in Queensland is very close to home.
Surprisingly modest coverage in our media about these floods that at their peak have covered an area greater than France and Germany combined.
Public Servant Unions Get Blamed
We’ve seen how this works
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02showdown.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
I moved the comments on Key’s ‘spit the dummy’ interview to the new post.
Young Professionals In Europe Are Angry
And my friends, this is what the capitalist and political leaders of the west have led its young too.
If it wasn’t for Australia sucking up all our trade qualified and professional 20-35 year olds, we’d see a very similar situation here IMO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02youth.html?src=me&ref=general
We still could see that here – not every 20-35 year old qualified person can or wants to go to Aussie!
(Maybe for family reasons?)
Deb
And snakes and deadly spiders. Plus the racist atitude of a large number of Aussies /
I always thought that going to Aus. was like jumping out of the frying pan, and unto the fire.
Sure, wages are high and job are aplenty, but costs are through the roof, esp. for housing, etc, and there is no ACC, or universal health care, or anything like that that.
This talk is very interesting and stimulating
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/645
A CEO makes million dollar decisions, but a million people making a few dollar decisions
every hour each also have the same merit surely? See that’s my puzzle, how come one
is more important, more in need of government bail outs and the other not? Especially
when you consider the CEO decision depends on millions of people making a few
dollar changing decisions!!! We can’t do without the millions of people making economic
activity happen, but we can let a few companies fail because we know they will be
replaced, customers will find alternatives. That’s the market. This goes doubly for
bankers who are twice removed from citizen capitalism.
Well who has the most important job,, the Head Doctor or the Rubbish collector. Now think of this people. One recieves thousands of dollars a week and the other a few dollars , but who do we need the most??
The rubbish collector.
I made a similar answer to my boss when he asked me the question many years ago … today I know the answer is actually neither or both. A sign of maturity.
I think perhaps the greatest problem with capitalism is the concept of endless growth which has led to an ever increasing world population which the earth cannot support in any standard of living acceptable to most of us.
Ms. LPRENT …..
A peculiar thing is happening quite frequently these days when I have the shift key depressed as I enter the anti-spam word … after entering two or three letters I get a list of inapplicable words hiding the required word. I’m using Safari if that makes any difference.