What amazes me is that a country like Pakistan suffers regular floods since time began. Over thousands of years you would think the locals might have twigged it that there will be more floods. But no it just goes on and on. They can fight a useless war against civilised countries but can't even put up adequate flood defences.
If ALL the people affected put in for free 1 day a week minimum to raise levees it would be a start. They should get their priorities right, get off their backsides and get on with it, even if it takes 100 years it would be worthwhile.
Pat old beam - you've lost the plot again. Instead of looking far away places look at home inside your heart even.
In the UK we have far more than Pakistan has in terms of pretty much Land / Labour and Capital yet instead of building and making things better our generation of people chooses to **** all over it by vandelising and destroying what the old generation have built.
I think you could put some grey efforts into thinking what 1m youngsters can do with the resources at their fingertips and bundles of help and money thrown at them.
Not to mention stealing copper wire and vandellising infrastructure that effectively brings London to a standstill when trains effup.
As for working for free that is not slavery its called voluntary work and there our vacations available for such work.
But we do need a minimum wage. I notice that even with the big fat cats salaries when they are calculating they are using average salaries to compare rather than lowest and highest differential.
I'm willing to bet a Lithuanian cleaner could make better economic decision and run a company better than some of our fat chief execs who are more interested in biscuits and lining their pockets on the golf course. To think these people are irreplacable is plain daft.
A statistic was released which said only one of these chief exec fat cats was head hunted in the last year. So to think they are all much in demand is a lot of bollox.
Compared to nurses or Polish builders. Also - one British company with heavy duty work assembling various metal works said not one English applicant applied for the job but only foreigners did.
So I'm a little confused where all this slavery BS talk and just working for food has crept into this Keynes v Hakek arguement.
Problem is still capitalism which has little or no clue on how to approach a slow down as the whole system is based on mass consumption and production.
The system has no heart and moreover is skewed to screwing your fellow mate. Look at Nestle take of cadburies or the cheese producer. Free market my ass.
The solution is to give more of the money to people who don't have not more to those who already have more than they need.
People are very creative and in the sub-underclass there are many gems who are not likely to ever come to fruitition because capitalism is a soulless, heartless son of a bitch.
I'm also really dissapointed with the elite of this country who can't see this. People work their bollox off to the deprivation of their families and wonder why the family brakes down and our kids grow like wilder beast.
Capitalism needs serious transformation into a mixed economy with a little more heart and tough love. Big corporations need a social conscience.
Increasingly I'm thinking a 4 day week sounds like a good start instead of the 50 hours ****.
