Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Three-Rs Reciprocity, Reconciliation, Revival (reform,
Three-Rs Reciprocity, Reconciliation, Revival (reform, reformation)
Three-Rs Reciprocity, Reconciliation, Revival (reform, reformation)http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/20/income-inequality-oxfam-wealth-study_n_4632157.html
Richest 85 People Own As Much Wealth As Poorest 3.5 Billion: Oxfam
Do we agree that the planet earth is in real trouble?
The economy is in danger of a credit bubble and resource shortages, the political societies threaten by a billion unemployed, many are young men who are restless and without hope for the future, and the environment by climate change and pollution.
Do we believe that growth and technology will solve the problems?
Most of the benefits of growth go to the top 1%.
The costs of growth – sprawling city slums, congestion, stagnate per capital incomes, with a decline in the social well being of friends and families and increasing crime, drugs, gangs, corruption, as personal bonds are weakened from what it was in the villages and countryside. Look at Honduras – Mumbai (Bombay) Rio, Cairo, mega cities over 15 million.. growth is not producing jobs as technology replaces people, travel agents, print journalist, bank tellers, small shops and traders by the new enterprises which are capital and skill intensive, Walmart, Amazon as the supply chain has roots elsewhere. So are we not captives of false ideas from the past?
Both stimulus Keynesian demand side ideas and austerity supply side lower taxes are not working and can not work in the context of the real world.
Synergy in action include 1) Anton Makarenko The Road to Life, 4) W Edward Deming Out of crisis quality control circles, Japanese collective management Z, German cooperative management, with labor and other stake holder included, the whole earth catalog:
2.) Peter Weir "The Last Wave" movie The “law” as traditional beliefs
3) Death and Rebirth of Seneca Anthony Wallace the Paradigm shift and collapse of culture.
5) Bernays Propaganda - Crystallizing Public Opinion Advertising Selling to the libido and Id -
6) Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents, which Freud wrote in the summer of 1929, compares "civilized" and "savage" human lives Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays and Ayn RAND individualist The Fountainhead (1949) vs. the collectivist “Our Daily Bread” movies by the same Director: King Vidor
7) Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment Paul R. Ehrlich , John P. Holdren , Anne Ehrlich
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“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Little else rules indeed the world. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Lord Maynard Keyes, the British economist, who at the time he wrote was of course focused on unemployment.
Why synergy is required by the limited resources on a flat economic earth, where the population and environment can't take it any more.
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Paying the price in a democratic society
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-risks
In the age of enlightenment (16th,17th, 18th centuries) the ideology of a rational republic was the necessary replacement for the ancient medieval regimes that claimed divine powers for church and king. In the 20th century Franco claimed he was the leader of Spain by the grace of God and supported by the official church. La callados de España por la gracia de Dios as claimed by the royals before him.
The idea of the people did not include those without real estate property, women, blacks, peasants or 90% of the population. Since the new elites would be only 1 or 2% they would be outnumbered by the rest. The history of democracy in ancient Athens was a constant forgiveness of debt because there were more debtors than creditors. The clear and present danger was of “populism” attacking the wealth of the few by the demigods of the masses, and destroying the civic culture which is the foundation of a rational society and state. The people of property had the education, experience, judgment, to govern in the interest of the society as a whole. Or if they wanted to protect their property from the ravages of the masses they would have to provide a “social contract” that cooped and neutralized the working class.
The price of democracy paid by the rich to protect themselves from the poor is “social democracy”. The great example is Otto von Bismark's 1880's safety net of social insurance for the risks of unemployment, old age retirement, sickness or disability, and benefits from cradle to grave of free public education at all levels, along with subsidies for housing, transportation, utilities, post office and other price subsidies. The rich had to pay the cost directly in taxes or indirectly in lower profits from higher wages and costs of insurance.
Economist from Adam Smith, John Steward Mill, and classical theorist recognized the transfer costs as protection of wealth from popular democracy. The issue and problem today is the rich don't want to pay the cost and don't believe the wolf is at the door. This comes at a critical time as western economies have to adjust to slower growth and stagnant living standards due to the equalizing effects of globalization. Capital has no limits and high returns from a more open global market and a vast expansion of CREDIT now many times the value of “money” or currency because it is money in all effects and causes. Assets are monetized to be liquid so they can seek a higher rate of return and leveraged to produce 10X or more their value ROI as things.
So the rich get richer and the poor become restless. Large segments of wealthy people do not want to pay the cost of protection. They believe because of their skills in marketing that they can fool most of the people most of the time. Their has not been much of a market for populist demigods – the social contract is being rewritten in favor of the employers and landlords.
"The widening gap between rich and poor "raises concerns about the Great Recession and the squeezing effect it had on the middle classes in developed economies," the group said in its Global Risks 2014 report.
While a severe income disparity has taken place in the U.S. and other developed nations, globalization "has brought about a polarization of incomes in emerging and developing economies," the report said."
Global Risks 2012 - Seventh Edition - Korean
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-risks
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its report Global Risks 2012. These are the findings of a survey of 469 experts and industry leaders, indicating a shift of concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks compared to a year ago. Respondents worry that further economic shocks and social upheaval could roll back the progress globalization has brought, and feel that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks. The findings of the survey fed into an analysis of three major risk cases: Seeds of Dystopia; Unsafe Safeguards and the Dark Side of Connectivity. The report analyses the top 10 risks in five categories - economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological - and also highlights "X Factor" risks, the wild card threats which warrant more research, including a volcanic winter, cyber neotribalism and epigenetics, the risk that the way we live could have harmful, inheritable effects on our genes. Key crisis management lessons from Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters are highlighted in a special chapter.
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its report Global Risks 2012. These are the findings of a survey of 469 experts and industry leaders, indicating a shift of concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks compared to a year ago. Respondents worry that further economic shocks and social upheaval could roll back the progress globalization has brought, and feel that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks. The findings of the survey fed into...
Post date: February 14, 2013
Paying the price in a democratic society
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-risks
In the age of enlightenment (16th,17th, 18th centuries) the ideology of a rational republic was the necessary replacement for the ancient medieval regimes that claimed divine powers for church and king. In the 20th century Franco claimed he was the leader of Spain by the grace of God and supported by the official church. La callados de España por la gracia de Dios as claimed by the royals before him.
The idea of the people did not include those without real estate property, women, blacks, peasants or 90% of the population. Since the new elites would be only 1 or 2% they would be outnumbered by the rest. The history of democracy in ancient Athens was a constant forgiveness of debt because there were more debtors than creditors. The clear and present danger was of “populism” attacking the wealth of the few by the demigods of the masses, and destroying the civic culture which is the foundation of a rational society and state. The people of property had the education, experience, judgment, to govern in the interest of the society as a whole. Or if they wanted to protect their property from the ravages of the masses they would have to provide a “social contract” that cooped and neutralized the working class.
The price of democracy paid by the rich to protect themselves from the poor is “social democracy”. The great example is Otto von Bismark's 1880's safety net of social insurance for the risks of unemployment, old age retirement, sickness or disability, and benefits from cradle to grave of free public education at all levels, along with subsidies for housing, transportation, utilities, post office and other price subsidies. The rich had to pay the cost directly in taxes or indirectly in lower profits from higher wages and costs of insurance.
Economist from Adam Smith, John Steward Mill, and classical theorist recognized the transfer costs as protection of wealth from popular democracy. The issue and problem today is the rich don't want to pay the cost and don't believe the wolf is at the door. This comes at a critical time as western economies have to adjust to slower growth and stagnant living standards due to the equalizing effects of globalization. Capital has no limits and high returns from a more open global market and a vast expansion of CREDIT now many times the value of “money” or currency because it is money in all effects and causes. Assets are monetized to be liquid so they can seek a higher rate of return and leveraged to produce 10X or more their value ROI as things.
So the rich get richer and the poor become restless. Large segments of wealthy people do not want to pay the cost of protection. They believe because of their skills in marketing that they can fool most of the people most of the time. Their has not been much of a market for populist demigods – the social contract is being rewritten in favor of the employers and landlords.
"The widening gap between rich and poor "raises concerns about the Great Recession and the squeezing effect it had on the middle classes in developed economies," the group said in its Global Risks 2014 report.
While a severe income disparity has taken place in the U.S. and other developed nations, globalization "has brought about a polarization of incomes in emerging and developing economies," the report said."
Global Risks 2012 - Seventh Edition - Korean
http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-risks
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its report Global Risks 2012. These are the findings of a survey of 469 experts and industry leaders, indicating a shift of concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks compared to a year ago. Respondents worry that further economic shocks and social upheaval could roll back the progress globalization has brought, and feel that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks. The findings of the survey fed into an analysis of three major risk cases: Seeds of Dystopia; Unsafe Safeguards and the Dark Side of Connectivity. The report analyses the top 10 risks in five categories - economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological - and also highlights "X Factor" risks, the wild card threats which warrant more research, including a volcanic winter, cyber neotribalism and epigenetics, the risk that the way we live could have harmful, inheritable effects on our genes. Key crisis management lessons from Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters are highlighted in a special chapter.
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its report Global Risks 2012. These are the findings of a survey of 469 experts and industry leaders, indicating a shift of concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks compared to a year ago. Respondents worry that further economic shocks and social upheaval could roll back the progress globalization has brought, and feel that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks. The findings of the survey fed into...
Post date: February 14, 2013
