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Porsche has scrapped its sales targets for EVs amid a slump in demand. A previous goal of 80% by 2030 has been watered down and the company now says sales will depend on uptake and how the technology develops.
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Read it and weep: the list of the BBC journalists taking home six figure salaries courtesy of the licence fee payer. Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards came top with £475k despite being off air for nine months of the year.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3"Much of liberal ideology suggests that men are born equal. By this they mean that each of us is capable of the same achievements given that we are nurtured under identical environments. This means that given identical environments humanity can produce endless Einstein and Newtons"
Nonsense --- the liberals of the Enlightenment (we are talking about late 18th/early 19th centuries) meant no such thing by "All men are created equal". I suggest instead of your fantasy version you might instead LOOK at their writings. For example, in one of the more famous documents from that time it is made pretty explicit in what regard the "liberals" thought "all me were equal" (the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness).
"However because of the universal benefits of communism behavioural problems will be significantly less than they are now. On the whole the quality of human life will be enormously better"
I'm not saying that you are wrong, comrade. But that's a matter of faith not unlike a religion. Some behavioral problems will probably be less but others perhaps more severe. The quality of life might be better in some regards but worse in others. Whether the quality of life would be better as a whole would depend on which aspects are most to be valued. It is precisely upon what aspects of life SHOULD be most valued that the "capitalists" and "communists" disagree.
Well regarding the basics of having a roof over your head and food and water on the table, I think capitalism is a spectacular failure. It clearly benefits a highly privileged minority at the expense of the majority, generates endless duplication, waste and built in obsolescence in everything it produces for consumption and rapes the earths resources ruthlessly in doing so. Long term it's clearly a losing strategy for humanity.
Whatever your value system, we all need to eat and drink and have shelter. Making us compete for even those basic things instead of cooperating for a common good has created or magnified (or both?) numerous self destructive psychoses and given full reign to inappropriate vestigial behaviours in humanity.
I think it goes far beyond current corrupt top down political systems.
We really need something better before it's too late. I'm not very hopeful personally. I think we are all doomed to be a small side note on the history of this planet sadly along with all the other blameless species who survived and evolved perfectly well alongside our ancestors for millennia only to be made extinct by our insane destructive behaviour.
if we don't have the sense to collectively put the brakes on and reach some sort of equilibrium then we truly deserve to perish in this new planetary easter island scenario we are in the process of creating.
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?It...id=50
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
( as I've said before, why can't pie in the sky be food for thought )
While searching for anti-war material I found this piece. I think it fits in here. Full text at link.
Engels : The Force Theory of Herr Eugen Dühring
By Thomas Riggins
Chapters two, three and four of Part Two of Anti-Dühring "Political Economy" deal with Dühring's theory that political systems and power are PRIMARY and economic relations are SECONDARY-- both historically and in the present day. Engels says Dühring gives no evidence or arguments in favor of this theory (which he claims is ORIGINAL) but simply asserts it as a given. Engels says this is old hash and has been the way history has been seen since the beginning. The true history of mankind has actually taken place behind the scenes and is the real basis for the pompous doings of the kings and presidents, popes and generals that strut the stage and are memorialized in the history books.
Dühring's idea that all the previous history of mankind is based on man's enslavement of man-- i.e., on force-- and that this is the only way we can explain it is exemplified by his example of Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Crusoe enslaves Friday. But why does he do this? Engels says "only in order that Friday should work for Crusoe's benefit." That is for an ECONOMIC MOTIVE. Dühring has reversed the true relation between political order and economic order and does not see "that force is only the means and that the aim is economic advantage."