I will never understand a world that beats up a doctor to prevent him from selling sunglasses in a train station. The same world that pushed that doctor away from home and into selling those glasses, fleeing from war, corruption, misery. The world is far from a Paretto efficiency, and it should be our responsibility to improve it, maximizing every single person's potential and recognizing they are human beings
Friday 18 December 2015
Wednesday 16 December 2015
Is the European Left focusing on the right battle?
Over the past few years i have seen a striking silence
over one of the biggest changes the world is seeing.
Over the past decade, the weight of Labour in countries'
income has been shrinking considerably, while Capital has been gaining steady
ground. And this under a complete silence from the educated european left (not
Syriza and Podemos, but the socially educated left that is the backbone of
Europe's social status and welfare state) that prefers to focus on Greece's
debt (mainly caused by a poor economic management from the country at micro and
macro-economical levels).
This is a global trend, let's be honest. The world global
population still grows faster than global gdp, and this drives a Supply surplus
on the economy, that tends to be compensated by Labour costs. Not even the fact
we currently claim we are in a talent economy disguises it - that is true for a
short number of professions (IT engineers are typically the best example) and
countries (niches in south-east asia, africa...), but not for the whole
population that fits in Labour extensive production networks).
But the silence that we all hear on this subject is
deafining. Instead of renewing their approach to focus on salary gains indexed
to productivity gains, we all tend to focus on less working hours, high
pensions or fixed salaries - that are impossible to bear on the long term. And
this puts in an extra weight on the global economy, that depends greatly on the
economical power of the masses for Consumption.
Enviado do meu iPhone
Monday 7 December 2015
2014 CO2 evolution in EU
The European Union has managed to cut CO2 emissions by -5.4%, in which is a huge hope signal to the world in terms of climate changes limitation. But EU is not alone in the World, and if the USA speech is increasingly moving in the right direction, China and India's (that, together, comprise 37% of world's population) is not. The focus of these tow nations should not be to have a modernization plan whose energy side replicates the XIX and XX centuries ones from EU and the USA, it should be to enhance the existing and short-term coming technologies to speed development in a cleaner, more efficient way.
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