The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th August 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
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https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/08/13/just-listen-to-matthew-hooton-and-apply-market-based-technology-to-solve-complex-social-problems/#comment-871911
People put a lot of thought and effort into getting something or stopping something and then on a whim another lot of burblers come to power and change it all. And yet their main rule is to maintain the economy and manage the country, not do anything or change anything for the people’s general benefit! This political system is impossible to right. The trivial are embedded in a sick system and running the show.
Marx’s words come to mind.
Eight Marxist Claims That May Surprise You By Mitchell Aboulafia
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. . . . Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
https://jacobin.com/2019/01/karl-marx-engels-capitalism-political-economy
and
https://theconversation.com/what-karl-marx-has-to-say-about-todays-environmental-problems-97479
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/524971/why-have-we-started-outsourcing-almost-everything
Sarah Greener has made a business out of paying other people to do chores she doesn’t want to do – or that will slow her down.
She doesn’t clean her home or hang out laundry. She doesn’t do the grocery shopping or meal planning. She enlists a stylist to help plan her wardrobe. Someone else does the gardening.
Instead, she focuses her energy on business coaching and helping other entrepreneurs, mainly women. A lot of her conversations are encouraging those clients to free up time and brainspace so they can accelerate their business and make more money.
(Who does her long hair – must be time-consuming? Be like Luxon and get famous and rich after shaving your scalp.)
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE2408/S00039/in-womens-health-week-the-selwyn-foundation-urges-older-women-to-put-their-health-and-wellbeing-first-for-a-change.htm
The Bust Foundation advises younger women, especially mothers, to put their lives, health and those of their unborn babies first. It is also recommended that they make friendly connections with older women who have time to spend helping the younger generation with their experience and the knowledge gained, and able to help discuss fears of the younger women.
‘There is something magical about holding a baby again, and I am more relaxed now as when my children were young, right from the start it was a busy and overwhelming time for me.’ one older woman remarked. (I have been listening to The Onion on the internet and that explains if I am a little mixed up here. But it would be a good idea, and if started early in retirement, older women need never be lonely.)