The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 23rd July 2019

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  1. There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent ( Property speculation for capital gain ), second the creation of money by privately owned banks ( Answer public banks), and the third is rent-seeking that is used to juice profits out of intellectual property through copyright and patents ( TPPA ).
    But the political class, supported by lobbying, continues to avoid addressing these issues. So monopolies grow larger and larger, and as they do, more and more people are excluded from the economy.
    To really address the root causes, why don’t we start by calling out the rentier economy as a structural issue that no progressive society can actually afford?
    Renegade Inc: Rentier Britain: all the rent goes to the 1% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03gYq2o-acM

    • Yes but Jay11, what is your alternative? As physical labour becomes automated other types of labour are coming into the workforce which are more intellectual. I’m not sure going back to the cultural revolution China ideals and send everyone to the fields for re education, the government owning all the land, worked either!

      • Contradictions of Neoliberalism: The Corporation
        Today I’m discussing the corporate contradictions of neoliberalism. First, I will demonstrate how the corporation is anti-free market and therefore goes against neoliberalism’s most basic premises. Second, I will look at the myth of the free market and explain why it is inherently utopian and unrealistic. FInally, I will discuss how the corporate contradictions of neoliberalism have led to increased inequality, corruption, and endless accumulation of debt.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhinGNsQKTo

  2. Age discrimination is rife, under neoliberalism, (young workers, cheap workers, less regulation, less experience). Google has now settled it’s age discrimination lawsuit.

    Older jobseekers to get $52,000 each after Google turned them down
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/114433009/older-jobseekers-to-get-52000-each-after-google-turned-them-down

    The IBM Age Discrimination Lawsuit Sheds Light On A Harrowing Employment Trend
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2018/09/18/the-ibm-age-discrimination-lawsuit-will-shed-light-on-this-harrowing-trend/#b4e9ea85ce13

    Why being made redundant in NZ is so tough
    Axed over the Christmas break, told to be out by lunchtime after 50 years’ loyalty – this is redundancy in New Zealand, where there’s no mandatory notice period or compensation payments and little support for those searching for new work.

    The reality is that being laid off in NZ is rampant in many industries and after a while people don’t return to the work force. Aka someone was posting about having 20 years experience in forestry in NZ, but after being made redundant 3 times, they quit the industry…

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/365540/why-being-made-redundant-in-nz-is-so-tough

    Rampant Rogernomics has hit NZ hard, and that is why we have a broken workforce that is paid much lower wages than Australia, and we have a lot of experience missing from the industries because there is a glass ceiling.

    As the boomers are retiring the Gen X that was forced into the student loan debt and worked through 30 years of lay offs are either quitting the industry or constantly passed over so never get to put their experience into management.

    NZ now has both major gaps of experienced people in NZ and without enough local experience not to make a total wreck of business here (think Fonterra and all the wealth lost during the Theo Spierings reign) and the government does nothing to retain local experience in the work force, in fact it is more popular to bring somebody in from overseas at great cost who has zero experience here! Aka Chch council CEO !

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