tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3399683118734339286..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Any Experts on the German Economy Out There?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-83585019317270153442010-09-04T08:23:29.654-04:002010-09-04T08:23:29.654-04:00"21.5% of Germans worked in the low-pay secto..."21.5% of Germans worked in the low-pay sector in 2008, up from 16% in 1998. "<br /><br />Globalisation has resulted in the economic elite having access to a much broader/larger pool of labour. They can screw the wages down across the planet that much easier than they could in the past. <br /><br />So it's no surprise to read about the gradually increasing impoverishment of the 'paid' worker in the so-called 'developed' economies.<br /><br />The easiest way to put "meat and potatoes on the table" is to produce this stuff directly. The home economy is real and could be a powerful tool against concentrated wealth, if only people began to realise their power.<br /><br />Consumption politics, it's about time it was used!Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-38092720570738522192010-08-29T14:53:43.496-04:002010-08-29T14:53:43.496-04:00Is it a book ??
Is it FREE ? ;-)
I could MAYBE be...Is it a book ??<br />Is it FREE ? ;-)<br /> I could MAYBE be EARNING A LIVING (yuccky expression, so plebian) by writing IF WE HADN'T MADE IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to put meat and potatoes on the table through "work" of any kind. (It's scrounging for almost everybody these days.)<br />Now... I work for free..<br />What else do you do if you can't EARN A LIVING ?<br />Keep me posted on your.. "work". ;-)Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-58965139685408834772010-08-28T19:26:07.066-04:002010-08-28T19:26:07.066-04:00Debra, I think you will like the Invisible Handcuf...Debra, I think you will like the Invisible Handcuffs when it comes out in January.michael perelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01520556020371833990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-69534844368072300522010-08-28T05:28:47.951-04:002010-08-28T05:28:47.951-04:00Aha..
I am not an expert on the German economy, bu...Aha..<br />I am not an expert on the German economy, but, living in France (the E.U), I can tell you that the general employment trends in Germany are carbon copies of what's going on in France, the uh, uncomfortable REALITY that the American worker has suddenly slammed into at 200 mph, to his great surprise and indignation...<br />There are inevitable long term consequences to the constant denigration of the VALUE OF WORK (as opposed to... the value of stocks, bonds, paper money, etc etc..., and the "rentier" approach to money, which is waiting for it to fall into his lap FROM HIS INVESTMENTS. Careful... aristocracy IN SOME FORM is inevitable, and indispensable for us but some forms of it are more predatory than others...) <br />The long term denigration of work leads to the "less value (as opposed to "plus value") of it, and wage stagnation, if not the outright DESTRUCTION of it.<br />Classic example of HOW WORDS/IDEAS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND (and not money, as many of you seem to think.. )<br />Our current financial crisis is also a crisis of MEANING. We are struggling to give new forms of meaning to the word "work".<br />It would be best if we found ways that allowed us to salvage it AS A VALUED ACTIVITY in our own eyes.<br />If we are going to "use" it to put meat and potatoes on the table, that is..Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.com