- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
I am not sure that there is quite as substantial an overlap between the new CEO robber-barons and the old money robber barons
You raise a good question for research. I personally do see the connection, but it would be difficult to substantiate, although I suppose it is about family wealth, which could be somewhat discernable. But another point is that even among the robber barons, there is infighting and some level of turnover, no? The problem with robber barons is that they undermine democracy. So all this talk about reforming the system through government regulation is already somewhat compromised because of the influence of the robber barons themselves and the corporations they control (as managers, owners, whatever). Fox, chickencoop, etc.
So all this talk about reforming the system through government regulation is already somewhat compromised because of the influence of the robber barons themselves and the corporations they control (as managers, owners, whatever).
'somewhat compromised' wins the understated euphemism prize, jjellin!
they'll just have to spin the lies harder and harder, and keep coming up with guileless-looking cherubs like cameron to spin... and the public in our discomfort will be ever more motivated to decipher the bullshit, blogging will continue to grow to facilitate this.
eventually the lies will become so flimsily outrageous tha a tipping point of trust will come, things are speeding toward that convergence mostly in italy and the UK, imo. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
to decipher the bullshit, blogging will continue to grow to facilitate this
You're really on to something there. Well, I suppose deciphering the bullshit sounds a little more discerning than what the stenographers of the media do. We might comfort ourselves with that.
