It would require a total re-write of how companies function.
I don't hink we are yet any where near being in a position to have such a radical shake-up.
In the meantime, all the more reason why as individuals we should support locally owned non-shareholder businesses.
Big businesses' legal raison d'etre is to maximise profits for shareholders within the law, or if regulation is weak, within the regulation of the law.
The idea that business should be ethical is wrong. The time a business is successfully ethical is when there is a market niche for that.
This is @UKLabour’s chance to show us they are made of the stuff we’d hoped for in the Summer of 2024…
Excellent points
And a good example ["traditional"] of why my IF may not be a valid assumption.
Thanks.
Yes but presumably there's a strong correlation between happiness and survival?
IF happiness were what determines the survival of a relationship (IDK if that's correct) then we might find observable relationships to have approximately similar happinesses whatever the category of the relationship (NB this principle isn't limited to the categories in the study).
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
We probably need to ban 'pedestrians' from wearing shoes.
An angry walker might kick the side of a (on average much richer) person's 4-wheeled material-love with their shoe-weapon.
Get rid of all objects except the almighty car, blessed be the car.
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Thank you.
What's the point of social media if we're going to waste time arguing with bots?
I agree - balance is necessary - it's not all or nothing
Overtaxing is by definition, OVERtaxing
Progressive tax need not be OVER the top.
UK taxes the wealthy less than in Thatcher's times
There is a lot of headroom before it is OVER taxing
No need to worry about the wealthy not being wealthy
Taxes aren't "punishment".
They can be used to:
a) reduce inequality back to the same levels we had in the mid 20thC
b) fund services eg NHS, education, military, public transport, libraries, infrastructural investments.
It's an interesting and blatant double-think for Reeves to say that the world has changed but we're not going to.
It's called "foot-fall" for a reason!
If only there were some people or companies who had great wealth that could be used.
Alas it's "will" rather than "could".
Any uncertainty surrounds the speed and extent.
Time for local communities to get resilient.
"Distributed network" systems of food, energy, information have an inherent resilience about them.
Another form of pollution, to add to brake dust & tyre wear, that won’t be solved by EVs
We need fewer cars and less driving
grease proof paper
For every mortal-victim there are many injured victims.
and...
For each injured victim, there are many children & adults whose freedom to walk & cycle is impinged through fear (parents' fear or their own).
Mourn the dead, and the iceberg that they represent.
"biogenic" carbon is taken up by plant growth & re-released in decomposition or other oxidation all the time, & has been for 10k yrs of climate stability (until oil, gas & coal)
A focus on increased efficiency could reduce demand & then we'd be in an easier & more hopeful position to avoid burning
Please read economists like Stern & Raworth to understand the fallacy of this.
Don't be hoodwinked by the misguided cult of GDP
We can't eat money
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Irrespective of whether we want "novelty" we're going to be getting it unless we start listening to the science.
The majority of humans alive today haven't, for example, experienced community-level food scarcity before in our lifetimes.
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Even more important than the money:
There's our shared blue home too
Listened to Hugh Grant's plea on Radio 4 for Labour to deliver on its promises to tackle press abuses. But a political party whose leader attacks identifiable private individuals in the Mail and describes The Times as the "paper of record" is not the solution but the problem.
Map of January's Critical Mass ride route. The route goes from the Meadows down Leith Walk and then up Easter Road, finishing on Bristo Square.
Here's a map of tomorrow's route! Join us on Middle Meadow Walk at 2pm!
Jill, your link has an extra "co" on the end.
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Protect Scottish walkers, cyclists & riders & say
'No' to ⬆️HGV speed from 40 to 50mph on single carriageways in consultation. At 50mph HGV travels 53m (175 feet) before stopping, at 40mph 36m (118 feet). That 17m could cause hurt/death for active travellers.
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🚎 We need to go further to deliver a truly affordable, reliable and accessible bus network across Scotland.
What more is the Scottish Government doing to cut the cost of buses and to support workers and commuters?
A vote for this bill is a vote for a liveable future & I urge every single MP to join me in passing this historic piece of legislation. Those who vote against must look to their consciences & ask why they're prepared to squander this historic opportunity #CANBill
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