- Follow A Former Dundee Man on WordPress.com
-
Recent Posts
Former Dundee Man on Twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: Economics
The Deficit: Why our weakest citizens must suffer
What is this deficit we hear about continuously? Why are we driving the weakest people in our society to suicide in order to reduce this deficit? When was the last time someone explained to you exactly what this word and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, United Kingdom
Tagged austerity, Business, deficit, economics, Neoconservative, Neoliberal, poverty, welfare
Leave a comment
The DIY Austerity Experiment You Can Do!
During economic recession should a country increase spending or impose austerity? So who is right in all this? Economists have been fighting over this for centuries and still we have no answer. Surely it must be simple? Do we get … Continue reading
Our Society is Run by Junkies (and don’t kid yourself)
Is society increasingly dominated by people who are for all intents and purposes junkies? Look at the evidence. How do our business leaders and our politicians behave? From a review of the 1992 book When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef: Many politicians behave … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, United Kingdom
Tagged alpha, ayn rand, Business, entrepreneur, neocon, Neoconservative, Neoliberal, self-improvement, welfare
3 Comments
How did Overhead become more Important than Work?
As a modern society we decide that there is a minimum standard of living and facilities that we are prepared to tolerate. If we had not desired this then we’d all still be living in caves and chasing our food … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Poverty, Technology
Tagged Business, economics, freedom, Neoliberal, politics, poverty, welfare
1 Comment
Holistic Politics vs That’s what you are, what am I?
Increasingly I despair when looking at politics. The average politician these days is a simpleton bully, the kind of moron you had at school who would keep yelling the same line over and over again until everyone else was battered … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Independence, Poverty, United Kingdom
Tagged Environment, equality, freedom, independent Scotland, politics, poverty, scottish independence, UK, welfare, workers rights
Leave a comment
Parpcaster – From Broke to $1Billion IPO in 6 months
From its humble beginnings in a student dorm room just six months ago, Parpcaster.com has come a long way. The new darling of the financial markets, this upstart British based technology company is set to sweep the world stage, treading … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Poverty, United Kingdom
Tagged Business, ipo, startup, venture capital
Leave a comment
The Elite Will Destroy Themselves (and take the rest of us with them)
There was a feature length documentary a couple of years back that provided me with one of those paradigm shift things that self-improvement gurus are apt to talk about. The film was called “Surviving Progress“. The premise was that there … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Politics, Poverty
Tagged economics, Environment, Neoliberal, politics, welfare
Leave a comment
It’s not a Referendum, it’s a Revolution
“It’s not a Referendum, it’s a Revolution,” says Mark McGowan, the Artist Taxi Driver in one of his incredibly loud and passionate YouTube monologues. And he is completely correct. To think this question of whether Scotland should be independent or not … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economics, Ethics, Independence, Politics, Poverty, United Kingdom
Tagged Artist Taxi Driver, empire, Environment, equality, freedom, Neoliberal, poverty, Scotland, scottish independence, xenophobia
Leave a comment
Austerity: Keeping Ratings Agencies Happy and Controlling People
Austerity. We heard a lot about that since the Masters of the Universe blew the bloody doors off the world economy in 2008. It’s sold to us minions, us majority of human beings as being the only solution to balancing the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Poverty, Project Fear, United Kingdom
Tagged AAA, austerity, Moodys
Leave a comment
Independent Scotland is not about Nationalism
The new poll putting Yes ahead for the first time appears to have awoken many people down south. Maybe some people in the main stream media and elite of society do get it now and this panics them. And some … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Independence, Politics, United Kingdom
Tagged independence, neocon, Neoconservative, Neoliberal, Scotland, WMD
Leave a comment
A Former Dundee Man 