... the economic problems of the future will not be about growth but about something more nettlesome: the ineluctable increase in the number of people with no marketable skills, and technology's role not as the antidote to social conflict, but as its instigator.
The battle will be over how to get the economy's winners to pay for an increasingly costly poor. ... In a future with higher taxes, the divide between rich and poor would be the central economic challenge.
- Economist's View
We're in for a big theoretical debate with highly practical consequences. Liberty, individualism, redistribution of wealth, where the wealth comes from in the first place, what is the Good Life... There must be somewhere between Goldman Sachs and Karl Marx. I don't like the two-party State (cosy-cosy) and I don't like bipolar philosophy.
There's always the Brazilian model, which is where I fear that we are headed.
ReplyDeleteI thought Brazilian models were dazzlingly good-looking.
ReplyDeleteThey are, although the only South American model that I saw was from Colombia, and also beautiful beyond words.
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