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A guaranteed minimum income: faux solution for the new industrial revolution

By / 32 Comments / 12 May 2018

Summary: Solutions are proposed as the shockwave of the new industrial revolution becomes visible on the horizon. Naturally, we first get small and comfortable ones — such as a guaranteed minimum income, which guarantee high and growing levels of inequality. We might even implement these, leaving the resulting social turmoil for the next generation. First …

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The hidden goal of Europe’s leaders. See it and then their actions make sense.

By / 15 Comments / 30 July 2012

Summary:  As the euro-crisis, now in its third year, grows in breadth and intensity, many analysts conclude that Europe’s leaders are stupid. Perhaps not.  Perhaps they pursue hidden goals.  Goals important to them, if not to Europe’s peoples. Many people writing about the euro-crisis conclude that Europe’s leaders are stupid.  How else to explain the …

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