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I studied accounting at uni, worked for a large global accounting firm in the private client wealth creation department which made rich people richer, have been contracted to do work for both sides of state and federal governments, contracted to do work for numerous arms of the government at state and federal level for strategic planning and business analysis. My interest is economics and economic systems.
Ideologically speaking I am socialist motivated, however, like Thomas Sowell, once you see and experience how the public service works you can't advocate the system, there are chronic flaws with every attempt to redistribute the decision making and the wealth to the people.
Capitalism puts the decision making into the hands of the competent yet psychologically deranged, there isn't one ridiculously wealthy person (that hasn't inherited that wealth) that is of sound mind.
Systems aren't flawed, it is people that are flawed. We can't get enough good people to make the right decisions for the right reasons, as soon as someone is put into power they go troppo and it is the psychologically deranged that go looking for that power and are addicted to it and they will destroy their lives, their families lives and humanity if given the opportunity to in the search for more power. They are sick people, they need to be in an institutionalised and treated, not running our companies and our governments.
As soon as Bill Gates had the power taken from him he realised what a colossal campaigner he was and now devotes his life to giving away a significant portion of his wealth and to use the rest to try and do some good.
What we need to do as regular joes is to realise anyone we put in power is stuffed before they even get into power, these old farts who have been in politics their whole life are gone, we need to find young people who haven't been exposed that long who are motivated by pushing for political reform and more importantly educating the masses as to what is going on because what people should be concerned about is how many people were conned by the mining industries ad campaign against Labor when they wanted to introduce the mining tax.
Both parties have created this system of scaremongering as a political tool for advantage rather than being honest and looking to educate the public about how things work and why. Despite our national wealth, people are dumber, they don't question authority, they don't educate themselves about politics or economics or finance so when politicians talk it is like the adults talking in the Peanuts comics, nobody knows if someone is full of shit or not and the media has long ago given up being that intermediary which informs the public.
Ideologically speaking I am socialist motivated, however, like Thomas Sowell, once you see and experience how the public service works you can't advocate the system, there are chronic flaws with every attempt to redistribute the decision making and the wealth to the people.
Capitalism puts the decision making into the hands of the competent yet psychologically deranged, there isn't one ridiculously wealthy person (that hasn't inherited that wealth) that is of sound mind.
Systems aren't flawed, it is people that are flawed. We can't get enough good people to make the right decisions for the right reasons, as soon as someone is put into power they go troppo and it is the psychologically deranged that go looking for that power and are addicted to it and they will destroy their lives, their families lives and humanity if given the opportunity to in the search for more power. They are sick people, they need to be in an institutionalised and treated, not running our companies and our governments.
As soon as Bill Gates had the power taken from him he realised what a colossal campaigner he was and now devotes his life to giving away a significant portion of his wealth and to use the rest to try and do some good.
What we need to do as regular joes is to realise anyone we put in power is stuffed before they even get into power, these old farts who have been in politics their whole life are gone, we need to find young people who haven't been exposed that long who are motivated by pushing for political reform and more importantly educating the masses as to what is going on because what people should be concerned about is how many people were conned by the mining industries ad campaign against Labor when they wanted to introduce the mining tax.
Both parties have created this system of scaremongering as a political tool for advantage rather than being honest and looking to educate the public about how things work and why. Despite our national wealth, people are dumber, they don't question authority, they don't educate themselves about politics or economics or finance so when politicians talk it is like the adults talking in the Peanuts comics, nobody knows if someone is full of shit or not and the media has long ago given up being that intermediary which informs the public.
I am a major critic of the influence of the fourth estate (Mr Edmund Burke here) on influencing the policies and ideologies of parties since the late 1970s as the media power grows. Instead of holding the government accountable, they sensationalize everything, leaving those few journalists who actually have integrity (like the future Spitta2Azza) out in the cold so to speak.
I may disagree with socalist ideology being a Burkean style neo-conservative, but all systems have their values, socialism in giving some power and sharing the power with the people more, liberal capitalism in generating economic grow, conservatism in instilling positive traditions and highlighting the importance of tradition in the education system. We keep trying as a people to take the best bits and try to mash it together, but so far its failed in the Australia, because simply, Australian's are politically lazy and to a degree stubborn about change.
I may also disagree with some of Kimbo's political leanings, but l see value in all political ideologies and too much power has been given to those who don't deserve it and l am far, far away from being a socialist, so that tells you something. Economic regulation, taxation and protection of certain industries (especially for manufacturing because we can't compete) and having the guts to tax certain companies (without seriously harming their growth potential) and use that to invest firstly in infrastructure and manufacturing as l believe manufacturing is the cornerstone of any strong economy (look at how well Germany is doing and is now the leader of Europe because of manufacturing).

