mavisdavis wrote on Feb 26
th, 2011 at 8:51am:
Equitist wrote on Feb 24
th, 2011 at 10:35pm:
laborfornever wrote on Feb 24
th, 2011 at 10:22pm:
How many shops/businesses will fold when the carbon tax comes in. This is just the tip of the ice berg.
After all it will cost households plenty and no way will the gov compensate you for all costs so you'll have less money than you do now??
As I have said before, unemployment will sly rocket ppl will be living in cars and you'll get mugged for your big mac.
This country is 10 years away from being like Sth Africa, every man for himself???? I see events like this already when homeless people roll people for phines shoes wallets etc, just wait til we have 30% unemployed 100s of thousands homeless with no money who have not eaten for 3 days, see how good things are then
Oh FFS, peoples, get over yourselves!
There will be a steady range of adjustments within the economy - and one possible positive result is that some passive shareholder parasites addicted to big-polluting industries will need to lower their expectations on their profit growth - to either sustained profits or single digit profit growth...
Meantime, there will be many renewable industries popping up and flourishing...
How could that possibly be a bad thing!?
Which translates to : "I`m alright Jack, so why should I care if lives are ruined?".
Ironically, you are a proponent of ruining lives - it's just that you seem to think that the elite few are worthy of disproportionate income and wealth and that it is somehow acceptable for large corporations (and their parasitic CEOs and shareholders) to ruin the day to day lives of the disempowered majority (including SMEs) because they don't matter as long as unbridled 'competition' prevails...
Socio-economic and environmental change and evolution go on every day out there in the name of 'competition' - but regulated change and regulation is somehow considered taboo!? Go figure, eh!?
Seriously, you don't think that the socio-economic changes brought about by the much-vaunted 'competition' dogma of unbridled capitalism and corporatism don't evolve to ruin lives on a daily basis!?
Where is your venom, for those multinational corporations who systematically-undermine our national prosperity by declining to train local workers, offshoring jobs and importing cheap labour!?
Have you not noticed that 'competition' eventually comes full-circle into 'consolidation' - and the inevitable exploitation that comes with triopoly, duopoly and monopoly control!?
Have you not noticed that: in practice, 'foreign investment' = 'foreign ownership'!?
Get over yourself and start looking at the bigger picture - and consider the broader ramifications in the future if we continue to allow exponential growth in parasitic and destructive industries and entities (and of CEOs in particular)...