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By Philip Mendes, published 22/8/2005Philip Mendes argues how to measure poverty is a distraction from how we define the causes and identify potential solutions.
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Aspirations to achieve ones full potential start with acceptance of full and total responsibility for oneself.
When you lefty failures get that into your thick heads, you might, just might, start to realise long term welfare just lead to poverty traps.
TUS knows it is true. Since you choke on my words just read his instead.
As for
“The hypocrisy of the neo-liberal ideology is illustrated by their refusal to see that there is an obvious power differential between the consumer and the marketer.”
We have lots of “marketeers” wooing consumers, I have yet to find a consumer “wooing” a particular supplier, excepting the possibly producers of Harley Davidsons motorcycles or Morgan autos but I guess you mean the average consumer, concerned with the overwhelming force imposed upon them to buy “Heinz baked beans”, simple solution buy “Watties”.
Your misguided and deluded misrepresentation of reality and promotion of the "nanny state" ignores the presence of competitors in the market.
What you describe is a monopoly supply market.
The best example of that would be Telstra before Optus & Co.
A circumstance where consumers were held to ransom by an unassailable monopoly run by unions for the benefit of the employees, not consumers.
That is why we are better off without government ownership of commercial organisations.
Umpires are supposed to be neutral. Government ownership is like the umpire owning one of the competing teams. It tends to lead to ethical issues and “conflicts of interest”.
Consumers are not incompetent. We do not need the government to tell us what toilet paper to buy nor how to use it.
Then your moving house rubbish, I have moved continents 3 times now. I suggest if you think moving house is disruptive try doing a real move.
Finally, you have a friend. Bragging? From what you say, he/she is equally recluse from reality but it does confirm “birds of a feather flock together”
Let me assure you I am real. Your feeble attempts at flaming fails, as surely as the demented and debunked socialist theories you bore us with.