tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5739045767554293821..comments2024-03-29T15:34:55.287+11:00Comments on loon pond: Ground control to major Caterists ... put that subsidised helmet on ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29621245426836973562016-01-13T08:14:17.620+11:002016-01-13T08:14:17.620+11:00:)³ you can tell that to truck, bus and taxi drive...:)³ you can tell that to truck, bus and taxi drivers for starters DW. Every so often the pond wonders what happened to those agile futurists spruiking the notion that technology would allow everyone to work a ten hour week and devote the rest of their time to the y'artz, stamp collecting and other mind elevating activities ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13758152145111608532016-01-13T07:49:26.834+11:002016-01-13T07:49:26.834+11:00Actually Mish, it seems that VC is the winner, but...Actually Mish, it seems that VC is the winner, but the pond felt that in its aged bones when its eyes squelched on "juicy irony" ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-31867829917936210602016-01-12T22:52:18.780+11:002016-01-12T22:52:18.780+11:00And thank you, DP, for the opening nod to the Thin...And thank you, DP, for the opening nod to the Thin White Duke :)Mishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15739039921358799040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75095954166275849762016-01-12T22:48:33.920+11:002016-01-12T22:48:33.920+11:00And we have a front-runner already!And we have a front-runner already!Mishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15739039921358799040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66274363503077316042016-01-12T19:45:41.214+11:002016-01-12T19:45:41.214+11:00"Cater waffles on ...
Indeed he does, DW, in..."Cater waffles on ...<br /><br />Indeed he does, DW, indeed he does. Now basically I think that you are a rational person, so I'm sure you won't object if I pass on some useful advice: attempting to project your own rationality onto the majority of humanity is a fool's errand.<br /><br />In short, there's no rationality or reason to whatever Cater says, it is a catechism he's learned by heart (what you have to do when you have no brain) and he ritually recites it at every available opportunity.<br /><br />And that is Cater's understanding of the dignity of work.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50163090671940914242016-01-12T13:38:30.653+11:002016-01-12T13:38:30.653+11:00So, there is nothing (c)overtly political about a ...So, there is nothing (c)overtly political about a Leisure Class lackey's recursionary policy prescription of living to work and working to live as the end of welfare, the beginning of dignity, and the (un(re)formed meaning of (human) existence(s); because no-one can see the challenge(s) or the moral hazard(s) of the fundamental flaw(s) of the deformist design of the Righteous; and certainly none on, or of, or aware of the Left, for whom social, and other environmental, justice measures of poverties, and their possible solutions, might be marginally more extensive, and so too consideration(s) of intensive (de(de)funding(s), then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18490023727784257492016-01-12T13:17:09.985+11:002016-01-12T13:17:09.985+11:00Hi Dorothy,
“It is far better that people be in c...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />“It is far better that people be in charge of their destiny, with the dignity that comes from work.”<br /><br />Cater is peddling the usual canard that unemployment is a moral failing and something that the Great Unwashed needs to be cured of. <br /><br />No mention that long term employment in once labour intensive industries like manufacturing have all but disappeared in Western Economies. Either these jobs have moved abroad where pay and conditions are lower or have disappeared completely as they have been replaced by technology.<br /><br />Cater is not alone in ignoring the profound changes that technology is going to make to the job market and indeed our whole notion of work and pay. It would appear virtually nobody in politics can see what is coming.<br /><br />https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961#.afcvh7by2<br /><br />It won’t just be unskilled manual labour that will be replaced either. A lot of the research that companies like Google are working on will lead to the end of many white collar positions as well. The “offspring” of software like SIRI will soon be able to do much more than suggest a nearby Thai restaurant. They will be able to automate virtually nearly every task carried out nowadays in business offices. Offices themselves will probably cease to exist as there will be nobody required to fill them.<br /><br />This could be a great tragedy but in other ways it could be a great triumph. Surely progress and technological innovation should be leading us to a society where we work less not more.<br /><br />https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/07/why-are-we-still-working/<br /><br />Unfortunately our current economic model does not equitably share out the spoils and it would appear that in the last 40 years the much vaunted Free Market model has not been “a rising tide that lifts all boats”. <br /><br />Cater waffles on about how reforming the welfare system is a long term task without even making even the most cursory examination of what the future of employment is going to look like. <br /><br />There are going to be huge social and economic changes in the near future and we will have to make profound changes to how we share resources. The current model that is just enriching a tiny minority is untenable if we wish to retain anything resembling a democracy.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75025563126020172432016-01-12T10:52:57.127+11:002016-01-12T10:52:57.127+11:00Okay, happy to have a try. Love a summer competiti...Okay, happy to have a try. Love a summer competition.<br /><br />I propose that the disclosure line at bottom of Caterist screeds is revised in a 2016 refresh:<br /><br />"Nick Cater is Executive Director of The Menzies Institute. Yes, he is aware of the juicy irony of writing about beneficiaries of government welfare while being a beneficiary of government welfare himself. Please, we've heard it all before".via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82573237725678205252016-01-12T10:11:22.729+11:002016-01-12T10:11:22.729+11:00"Commissioner Dyson Heydon taught the subject..."<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/dyson-heydon-goes-to-oxford-as-royal-commission-hearings-have-a-rest-20150417-1mno41.html" rel="nofollow">Commissioner</a> Dyson Heydon taught the subject <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2016/jan/11/tory-assault-on-labour-funding-ignores-its-own-corruption" rel="nofollow">hearsay</a> during Hilary term at <a href="http://idu.org/" rel="nofollow">Oxford</a>, which runs from January to March."<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com