Epicurus says…….
Live justly and obey the laws. Thus you avoid the anxiety of wondering if you will be caught and punished.
Archive of posts filed under the The way we live now category.
Lifestyle topics
Gormless youngsters
56.4% of British employers are concerned that graduates lack leadership skills, literacy, the ability to communicate or manage their own lives, solve problems or motivate themselves. In my opinion leaders are born, not made. (I know whereof I speak, having been on three leadership courses, which only confirmed my firm opinion that I had sparse …
We subsidize all this!
The U.N Food and Agriculture Organization say that livestock on farms account for 18% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, including 9% of all CO2, 37% of the methane and 65% of the nitrous oxide. The warming potential of methane and nitrous oxide is , respectively, 23 and 296 times that of CO2. The problem …
Britain comes unglued, no.2
Families in the U.K now owe a record 173% of their incomes in debt, up from 129% five years ago. This is the highest level of debt a G7 country has ever seen, and it has been largely financed by rising house values, so-called. Meanwhile consumwer cofidence is now a minus figure of 34, the …
Britain comes unglued
James Saft in the International Herald Tribune (July 9th) points out that Britain some years ago (under the superficial Blair) made the decision to base the “new economy” on property (assumed to rise indefinitely) and the financial services industry (presumed to know what it was doing). The country outsourced everything else and saw financial intermediation …