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The CEO of General Motors takes home (I avoid the word “earns”) about $22 million a year in compensation (don’t you just love the American use of the word, “compensation”?). He had been laying off thousands of employees who, surprise, surprise, have had enough and are now on strike, nearly 50,000 of them. They are …
We’ve heard about sweatshop factory collapses and fires in countries like Bangladesh. We’ve seen stories about labour conditions abroad and we should by now be aware that the people who make our clothes earn so little they can barely, if at all, afford to feed their families,. On top of that people are dying slowly …
Many arguments are made with minimal understanding, or are based on false premises. Simply asking for more detail and forcing someone to take you through their thinking step by step can expose this. It’s not enough just to give evidence that something is false. To convince the other party, provide an alternative explanation to fill …
Imagine lining up all the riches in the world and distributing them evenly to adults across the globe. Every adult on Earth would end up with $63,100, according to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from the Swiss bank Credit Suisse. The figure puts global adult average wealth at a record high. But, of course, our …
“Below are comments from the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, in his article in the June 2015 edition of “Prospect” magazine, the British magazine designed for those who think and who have a sense of humour, under the title “If I ruled the World”. “Teachers too would have their authority returned to them. Children would be …
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