You can probably guess what I think...
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Fallible wrote:I'm not seeing the connection.
Thommo wrote:Good luck. Remember, honesty, respect and contrition go down well in court.
surreptitious57 wrote:Keep It Real wrote:
Incidentally I am personally in favour of a mixed economy circa 90% communist and I0% capitalist but I am calling it luxury communism for now - sounds nice and tangy
Did you nick the nice and tangy title from Ash Sarkar because by a very strange coincidence she calls it exactly the same
I love the employment of the adjective there.
surreptitious57 wrote:please explain how a 90% communist I0% capitalist society would actually work in practice and are there any real life models that you can point to as supporting evidence for this
Keep It Real wrote:surreptitious57 wrote:Keep It Real wrote:
Incidentally I am personally in favour of a mixed economy circa 90% communist and I0% capitalist but I am calling it luxury communism for now - sounds nice and tangy
Did you nick the nice and tangy title from Ash Sarkar because by a very strange coincidence she calls it exactly the same
I love the employment of the adjective there.
It's a term in common usage these days I think. Much like capitalism, it does not have a 100% fixed meaning ATM.surreptitious57 wrote:please explain how a 90% communist I0% capitalist society would actually work in practice and are there any real life models that you can point to as supporting evidence for this
ATM I reckon there should be some wage disparity between particularly pleasurable/dangerous/unpleasant jobs. Also some sectors could be associated with very high maximum earnings, such as the arts and development of green technology/theory.
Nowcasting household income in the UK: financial year ending 2017...28 Jul 2017 - Over the same period, mean household income is estimated to have increased at a faster rate than the median measure, growing at an average annual rate of 2.2% from £14,100 to £32,200.
surreptitious57 wrote:A median salary with little difference between the richest and poorest would be very problematic indeed Because I do not want to live in a society where a brain surgeon makes more or less the same as a binman
Hierarchy is natural and economic hierarchy is merely an extension of it and therefore should be accepted
Treating everyone as equal in economic terms is not practical or moral and should be avoided whatever the system
Until human beings start seeing themselves as part of a collective rather than as an individual this is just not viable
You cannot start from scratch you have to incorporate change from within the existing system because it is how it works
It would also help if those with radical agendas could see any flaws in their models because they will definitely be there
surreptitious57 wrote:Do you think that brain surgeons and bin men should be earning more or less the same salary and if you do why
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