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发帖数: 1709 | 1 To reverse inequality, we need to expose the myth of the ‘free market’
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/inequality-free-market-myth-billionaires
A Government which cannot feed its people, house them adequately, provide
health and education needs, and a secure economic safety net of benefits and
pensions on a livable level - such a Government is a failed government. | b*********3
发帖数: 1709 | 2 "What matters is that it commands wide support, and whether it does so
depends on whether it is trusted to be as good as or better than the
available alternatives."
Spot on. The best system of government for a country at a given moment is a
benevolent dictatorship - governance in the hands of a small group of people
who are making the best decisions on behalf of the people. Action is swift
and considered. However that is not a long term plan as it is individual
focused and dependent on good information and can ignore minority positions.
A specific example would be the ability of China to wield its command
economy towards a Green position if it demands. Achieving that in a
democracy where you need to tell people they will have to lose out
individually is much harder. | b*********3
发帖数: 1709 | 3 The US is a deeply religious country. There, the accumulation of wealth is
viewed as a blessing from god….. it is a sign of divine reward for a
virtuous life. It is a blessing. The corollary, of course, also applies.
Poverty is god’s punishment for a sinful existence. Only the inherently
wicked and undeserving are poor.
I had often wondered why Christianity took such a perverted turn when it
crossed the Atlantic. But in an article by George Monbiot many years ago (in
the Guardian), he explained it rather well.
The free market is capitalism run riot. Evolving and mutating without
constraint. Much like the dinosaurs, in fact, which evolved in such
unwieldly ways that eventually their gigantism rendered them unsustainable.
The excesses of the free market will be forced to end. And as it was for the
dinosaurs, it may be an apocalyptic change in climate that does it. |
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