Posts by giovanni tiso
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It's a commandment for our times. But we're all such imperfect beings...
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I think as in most things it can be boiled down to "try not to be a dick". (Updating Saint Augustine - but only slightly.)
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Short version. Don't offer advice. Not even if you mean well. Just don't do it.
Er... my partner suffered from very debilitating OOS. She had seen all manners of physiotherapists until a friend suggested she try this particular osteopath she was seeing, and she did and boy did that help. So it's not as simple as "don't offer advice" I would suggest.
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Not at the UK retailer John Lewis Partnership (operator of Waitrose) where the employers own the business and split the profits. Or at many other cooperatives.
It's a diligently maintained myth that capitalism is the only effective way to organise an economy.
I think it would be fair to say that in a free market economy you need some form of enterprise. Capitalism isn't at all in contradiction with cooperatives - it doesn't much care about how you structure a business or divide the profits.
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Yes, you could equally say that Labour was re-elected twice after having abolished it.
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Meanwhile, on Kiwiblog, DPF leads his defence of the changes with the expert commentary of ... Kerre Woodham.
That's just because Torqeumada had to cancel due to a clashing engagement.
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It's the money they're paid from the turnover of the business that *literally* does that, if we're going to be fiddly about it.
Which in turn is created by the work of the employees, who otherwise wouldn't be employed. We could play this game of chicken and egg forever!
I don't find it useful to see people who create businesses and employ other people as the enemy.
I'm with you in principle, but people really don't do that anymore. To the point that you could be excused to think that there is no exploitation in New Zealand. (Nor sheep in our farms, etc.)
The pendulum seems to have swung to the point where employees are the enemy somehow.
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It's a nuance that seems to get lost sometimes, though, doesn't it?
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The enterprise and willingness to embrace risk of employers literally pays the rent of millions of people.
I think you'll find that it's the work that employees do for those employers that *literally* pays their rent.
This is, of course, all just a run-in to this week's round of explaining stuff to Kerre Woodham.
Heh.
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The other stuff about cancer in particular which soundly pisses me off is all the battle talk.