I remember hearing about how everything on the planet should be privitised - e.g meaning that someone would have an inherent interest in a specific cubed foot of water in the ocean.
Even though this exists already and is known as worldwide commons. (2) (3)
This did happen before but people were not too happy because all these common areas were given/ bought to people who could afford them- leaving the public in debt to these new owners.... the result of this was known as the land reform act or soemthing like that- I honestly think we are revisiting this area once again.
Where all this privately owned commons wil be reclaimed by the people.The thing that I have thought about history is that we can repeat history indefintely- because new generations make the same mistakes as past generations.
We only learn from our own mistakes- not others... meaning we will repeat history time and time again.
Anyways thats thought for the day..
Friday, April 22, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005
UK Election 2005 - Sensible Party Policies
So, what would a sensible party's policies be for this election?
As food for thought, there's some policy areas to consider -
Crime - Policing, Anti-Social Behavior, Immigration and Asylum
Public Services - NHS, Council Tax, Education
Finance - Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Red Tape, Families, Transport, Pensions
Foreign Policy - Israel/Palestine/Iran/North Korea, Terrorism, EU
Government - Constitution, Reform, Monarchy, House of Lords, Parliament,
Devolution
The BBC list of issues is here
So, what would a sensible party's policies be for this election?
As food for thought, there's some policy areas to consider -
Crime - Policing, Anti-Social Behavior, Immigration and Asylum
Public Services - NHS, Council Tax, Education
Finance - Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Red Tape, Families, Transport, Pensions
Foreign Policy - Israel/Palestine/Iran/North Korea, Terrorism, EU
Government - Constitution, Reform, Monarchy, House of Lords, Parliament,
Devolution
The BBC list of issues is here
Opinion - Tesco's UK Record Profit
I'm generally a patient man but I dislike waiting around because of other people's incompetence. So, taking into account Tesco's record 2 billion pounds pre-tax profits , have a think about this next time you are standing in a queue at a Tesco store looking at empty, un-manned checkouts :
Teso annual Pre-tax profits - 2.03 billion pounds.
Number of seconds in a calendar year : 31449600
Therefore, Tesco pre-tax profit per second is 64 UK pounds and 54 pence.
From what I could find via a quick google, Tesco checkout operator hourly rate of pay (For over 18's), is : 5.65 quid
Therefore, if Tesco spent even a quarter of these profits on more staff, they could employ 3 man hours of checkout staff per second... Why do they not do this?
a) Sheer greed - our current economic system compels companies to make as much money as possible. If you haven't seen it, go and see / rent or buy the DVD of The Corporation for a thorough look at how psychopathic companies are.
b) Incompetence - If some customers are put off by hanging about and spend their money elsewhere on other visits, or even walk out and abandon their trolley, then Tesco lose profits from this. But, they spread their greed ethos down to their management. So what do the management do? They try and get by on as little budget as possible so they can increase their bonus / get a promotion / salary increase. They reduce their staff budget to the minimum they think they can manage on.
Result - You get left standing around, and every second you stand there the directors and shareholders are clocking up as much profit per second as you are probably going to spend when you eventually get served at the checkout.
The reason there are so few manned checkouts in the quarter following Christmas is that the managers used up all their budget on extra staff over Christmas trying to get as much of your cash as possible in their tills during the busiest period.
I wonder how much money Tesco would make if they were smart as well as enormously greedy?
"Our market share of UK retailing is 12.5 per cent - that leaves 87.5 per cent to go after.",
Tesco Chief Executive, Sir Terry Leahy
I'm generally a patient man but I dislike waiting around because of other people's incompetence. So, taking into account Tesco's record 2 billion pounds pre-tax profits , have a think about this next time you are standing in a queue at a Tesco store looking at empty, un-manned checkouts :
Teso annual Pre-tax profits - 2.03 billion pounds.
Number of seconds in a calendar year : 31449600
Therefore, Tesco pre-tax profit per second is 64 UK pounds and 54 pence.
From what I could find via a quick google, Tesco checkout operator hourly rate of pay (For over 18's), is : 5.65 quid
Therefore, if Tesco spent even a quarter of these profits on more staff, they could employ 3 man hours of checkout staff per second... Why do they not do this?
a) Sheer greed - our current economic system compels companies to make as much money as possible. If you haven't seen it, go and see / rent or buy the DVD of The Corporation for a thorough look at how psychopathic companies are.
b) Incompetence - If some customers are put off by hanging about and spend their money elsewhere on other visits, or even walk out and abandon their trolley, then Tesco lose profits from this. But, they spread their greed ethos down to their management. So what do the management do? They try and get by on as little budget as possible so they can increase their bonus / get a promotion / salary increase. They reduce their staff budget to the minimum they think they can manage on.
Result - You get left standing around, and every second you stand there the directors and shareholders are clocking up as much profit per second as you are probably going to spend when you eventually get served at the checkout.
The reason there are so few manned checkouts in the quarter following Christmas is that the managers used up all their budget on extra staff over Christmas trying to get as much of your cash as possible in their tills during the busiest period.
I wonder how much money Tesco would make if they were smart as well as enormously greedy?
"Our market share of UK retailing is 12.5 per cent - that leaves 87.5 per cent to go after.",
Tesco Chief Executive, Sir Terry Leahy
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Coming Home from Iraq
No matter what your position on the Iraq war, surely anyone would think what has happened to the US soldiers in this Guardian story is a disgrace. Homelessness is a blight on society at the best of times, that people who have offered up their lives should be let down so badly by the system that sent them to war is unforgivable.
No matter what your position on the Iraq war, surely anyone would think what has happened to the US soldiers in this Guardian story is a disgrace. Homelessness is a blight on society at the best of times, that people who have offered up their lives should be let down so badly by the system that sent them to war is unforgivable.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)