http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/08/the-uk-is-keeping-it-real Comments On: The UK Is Keeping it Real by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by sarah70]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:05:25 -0800 The Stranger they're/ ...grr.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:27:34 -0800 The Stranger
For CEOs and captains of industry (the job with the most psychopaths), I'm sure they feel no empathy for the "less fortunate", and have no real compassion or understanding of how bad some people have it. So their are ideally suited to fuck people over even more. It's kind of a self-perpetuating feedback loop.

What we need, what economies have gotten away from by using interest-bearing currency exclusively, is economics that reinforce circles of trust, reputation, and interdependence. Non-anonymous money. Money that encourages trade and cooperation, not greed.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:26:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:04:26 -0800 The Stranger I am posting far less as of late. I trust you're well and Happy New Year to you and yours.

I must say I'm a tad startled at the date, July 21, 1996 of the article. It struck me as odd that Thatcher & Reagan were mentioned. How relevant is this? Couldn't something more current be used? And, how well has the US fared under Obama vis-a-vis "inequality" using this standard (discount Obamacare. My understanding is the UK has universal healthcare or the National Health Service). A good friend of mine just returned from an extended stay in the UK (he now has a British bride) and said to me that he thought the British seemed happier with their quality of life.

"Inequality" here seems quite loaded and the article/study quite dated.
Posted by lark]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:55:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by England]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:11:06 -0800 The Stranger European Journal of Sociology on American exceptionalism in income and wealth distribution, among other sources -- but I believe that, thanks to exceptionally weak labor standards, dramatically less progressive fiscal policy, and race-to-the-bottom free trade, the United States is now the most financially unequal country in the developed world. And I vaguely remember from the infamous Citibank/Citigroup "plutonomy memos" cited in Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story that the UK comes in at number two and Canada at number three. (It could be the other way around, with Canada at number two and the UK at number three, but I want to think that the UK was the second most unequal.) It's interesting to note that all three countries use first-past-the-post voting and have been run by economically neoliberal governments for some time.

*As my New Year's resolution, I turned off the automatic display of unregistered comments ... but my curiosity got the better of me.
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