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I'm using my quarantine time to read Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century". I'm actually pretty sure I'm _not_ going back to work if it risks my health. And
by 317070 7y ago
I'm using my quarantine time to read Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century". I'm actually pretty sure I'm _not_ going back to work if it risks my health.
And it is obvious that the rentiers of our economy want the non-rentiers to go back to work. The rentiers actually have little to lose. The article states they might get sick, but if we're being realistic, they are very well sheltered against the collapse of the healthcare system when they would, unlike the rest of us.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoAppropriate disaster reading :-). Others have pointed out how the black plague killed off a lot of serfs and really put a dent in feudalism because of it. It is all well and good to own a thousand hectares of land but without the serfs to work it, its just a nice park to go walking in.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoTrouble is, that nowadays the serfs are in China. In the Middle Ages, servants would flee a lord that was too harsh. The Church and the towns with their rising merchant class would be another way out. Instead we have healthcare tied to the job and the tech hiring cartel. Where is the revolution?
- ChuckMcM 7y agoI see a number of serfs driving around my town partaking in the "gig" economy.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoMoving from Deliveroo to Uber isn't an improvement, is it? You'll get shafted either way, but you can choose the colour of the shaft!
- me_me_me 7y ago> Where is the revolution? There was Occupy Wallstreet. It's very interesting how government attacked it. Both internally and externally. One lesson to learn from it is that a movement need few clearly defined goals. And needs to remove/distance any people who try to muddle with that (intentionally or not). Otherwise this will divide people on the inside, create infighting leading to disillusioned rudderless environment soon distant to self implode.
- vavooom 7y agoOne of two books I plan to read as well! Starting with a re-read of Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" as a refresher on the field.
- dorchadas 7y agoHey, I'm reading that too. Definitely making me really rethink leaving my job as a teacher, where at least I'm doing something useful and not just making someone else richer, and which would give me the money for a modest house. The level of inequality is a disgrace, and I wish everyone would read that book.