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Inequality and growth : Comments

By Matthew Smith, published 31/7/2017

The recent public concerns raised by Bill Shorten, leader of the Labor opposition, and others, about the widening income inequality in Australia is not before time.

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no strawman Aiden, for decades the lefist socialist have used what they consider inequality as an excuse for violence, vandalism and abuse. Feeding their warped narrative of victimhood helps no one.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 12:05:44 PM
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Damn for a second there I thought I had found an Alan B post that didnt mention Thorium.
Posted by mikk, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 2:09:30 PM
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runner,
" for decades the lefist socialist have used what they consider inequality as an excuse for violence, vandalism and abuse"?
And who exactly are these "lefist socialist"?
Are they the same imaginary people that "think that those who sit home and smoke weed all day, watch porn and refuse to pick fruit should earn the same as those who get up and go to work at 6 each morning"?

I'm not feeding anyone's "warped narrative of victimhood". I'm highlighting a genuine social problem: the younger generations do not have the opportunities that the older generations assume they do.
Posted by Aidan, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 2:21:46 PM
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As usual the economists do not take into account the changing cost to
the economy of energy. They all think it is cheap now but it is more
than double what it was at the turn of the century.
However the producers of energy are not happy at all with the prices
they can get for their product.

This is felt right through the economy. We are making it worse by
bringing 200,000 plus a year into our economy.
This figure is higher on a per capita basis that the last year or twos
immigration into Europe and look at what that has done to Germany and Sweden.

We will be met with higher energy costs on a continuing basis and
like Rome our declining return on effort is decreasing our standards of living.
Posted by Bazz, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 3:05:51 PM
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leoj,
I'm starting to think that it's a deliberate tactic of the left to field individuals who might be attacked on purpose, and to create controversial headlines.

I think they do it to get attacked, for the purposes of turning the argument around and then being an opportunity to attack everyone else as being racist, sexist, homophobic etc.
Hegelian Dialectic, Problem, Reaction, Solution.

Take Magied and Triggs - Are they over the top and do they blame everyone else when criticised?

Whenever someone screams racist you have to ask yourself if that's exactly what they were placed there to do.
It means they can more or less do whatever they want without being criticised and to turn the blame onto others to push a progressive agenda.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 9:37:13 AM
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Most economists do not even mention energy as part of the economic
scheme of things.
Therefore they ignore totally such foreign concepts as net energy.

http://tinyurl.com/yazhmuka

It never occurs to them that there might be a bigger change going on
under their nose than they even realise.
Posted by Bazz, Monday, 7 August 2017 3:45:44 PM
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