Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Letter published in August 31 Financial Times, in response to the 8/29/18 FT article, “Nordic lessons for today’s socialists.”

Voters want decisive change towards a fairer type of capitalism (Letter published in the 8/31/18 edition of the Financial Times)   I liked Martin Sandbu’s article, “Nordic lessons for today’s socialists” (August 29), and its compelling description of the Nordic model. I agree with him when he mentions Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and …

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Of Baby Boomers and Millennials

May 17, 2018 | Social Trends

I am a father of five, six with my stepson, and a baby boomer happily retired from full-time work. Plenty of time to reflect on the opportunities I have had, those that passed me by, and compare them with what is on offer for my children in this twenty-first century. I can start with one …

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Why We Need a Basic Universal Income

May 17, 2018 | Employment

The future belongs to artificial intelligence enabled robots. They clean our homes and hotel rooms. They serve our meals in restaurants and deliver them at home. They stretch their artificial limbs to bring us our medicines when we need to take them. They select in giant warehouses the goods we have purchased online that drones …

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