Posts Tagged ‘rentier state’

Wealth creators or life-blood suckers?

Written By: - Date published: 12:40 pm, August 8th, 2011 - 38 comments

Study proves that our ‘wealth creators’ are actually bad managers. We have the natural resources. Got the skilled workforce. We’re held back by the capitalist elite. Not interested in capital investment and paying better wages. They’re just rentiers out to extract quick profits: a formula of low wages, tax cuts, and untaxed capital gains. Parasites.

The golden curse

Written By: - Date published: 10:05 am, June 17th, 2010 - 15 comments

You know, if we don’t give those mining companies some more free seismic data, rent-free access to our most precious natural environments, and only demand low royalties when they dig up our minerals, we’ll lose them to the lucky country. That’s right, Afghanistan. It’s sitting, quite literally, on a gold mine and it makes ours look like small change.

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