I had a nice surprise when I put fuel sin plomb into my car.
An attendant pumped the gas for me. I've become so used to pumping gas that I had to actively fight back the impulse to grab the fuel pump.
So after getting us to pump gas the latest wheeze in supermarkets is outsourcing the check-out function to the customer.
You know the kind of thing that caused Mr Worrall Thompson such embarrassment.
Apparently a store is about to open in London which has no staff on the check outs, you just push everything through the bar code reader yourself and type your pin number into the debit card reader.
I find this trend deeply disturbing I can only hope that it is capitalism's last fling.
Capitalism suffered a typo in my last post sadly it wasn't fatal.
I have corrected it, a before p especially after C unless its pc or should that be PC?
Capitalism is clearly the economic system de jour of those who run our public affairs, how else are they or their friends to make any money?
It makes sense, Adam Smith said so. Apparently?
Capitalism is the economic system that inspires achievement, success and profits.
How are people ever going to be motivated to make enough money to make themselves rich with enough left over to trickle down to the rest of us?
Adam Smith did however warn against Capitalists.
He saw them engaged in a collusive relationship against working people.
When I lived in Bradford I lived in a house built over a charnel pit where the bodies of children who were killed in the Mills were buried in Lime.
It wasn't a healthy place to live.
Protecting those children cost the capitalist mill owners time and time was money, so the children who cleaned the machines were often killed or maimed when the machines were switched back on with them still inside.
Child Labour Laws, Education and School Meals were pioneered in Bradford against opposition from the capitalists whose vested interests were threatened.
It is usual in the Church to read a Lent book. The book I am reading is called The Christian Consumer by Laura M Hartman.
The author is American she is writing about shopping and a lot more.
The principal argument is that our consumption should avoid sin, it should embrace creation, it should love neighbour and envision the future, so it is no surprise that after various discussions about the ethics of consuming that the author brings into her discussion the first co-operators, often referred to as the Rochdale pioneers. The author credits them with introducing the principles that underpin most if not all co-operatives today.
Capitalism proved in 2010 that it no longer offers a way forward for community, enterprise or human well being.
The sight of disconsolate traders leaving Canary Wharf with their card board boxes made it clear that making money out of money is an ultimately foolish and unfulfilling enterprise if that is what capitalism is, then it is a failed scheme.
This year is the International Year of co-operation.
After a hundred years mutualism is positioning itself as a credible alternative to capitalism.
So when you go shopping consider the positive impact that your spending decisions can make, be a cheerful shopper, thank the person on the check out, shop locally, buy fair trade goods and things made, reared and produced in your area, support farmers markets and make sure that what you buy is renewable.
An attendant pumped the gas for me. I've become so used to pumping gas that I had to actively fight back the impulse to grab the fuel pump.
So after getting us to pump gas the latest wheeze in supermarkets is outsourcing the check-out function to the customer.
You know the kind of thing that caused Mr Worrall Thompson such embarrassment.
Apparently a store is about to open in London which has no staff on the check outs, you just push everything through the bar code reader yourself and type your pin number into the debit card reader.
I find this trend deeply disturbing I can only hope that it is capitalism's last fling.
Capitalism suffered a typo in my last post sadly it wasn't fatal.
I have corrected it, a before p especially after C unless its pc or should that be PC?
Capitalism is clearly the economic system de jour of those who run our public affairs, how else are they or their friends to make any money?
It makes sense, Adam Smith said so. Apparently?
Capitalism is the economic system that inspires achievement, success and profits.
How are people ever going to be motivated to make enough money to make themselves rich with enough left over to trickle down to the rest of us?
Adam Smith did however warn against Capitalists.
He saw them engaged in a collusive relationship against working people.
When I lived in Bradford I lived in a house built over a charnel pit where the bodies of children who were killed in the Mills were buried in Lime.
It wasn't a healthy place to live.
Protecting those children cost the capitalist mill owners time and time was money, so the children who cleaned the machines were often killed or maimed when the machines were switched back on with them still inside.
Child Labour Laws, Education and School Meals were pioneered in Bradford against opposition from the capitalists whose vested interests were threatened.
It is usual in the Church to read a Lent book. The book I am reading is called The Christian Consumer by Laura M Hartman.
The author is American she is writing about shopping and a lot more.
The principal argument is that our consumption should avoid sin, it should embrace creation, it should love neighbour and envision the future, so it is no surprise that after various discussions about the ethics of consuming that the author brings into her discussion the first co-operators, often referred to as the Rochdale pioneers. The author credits them with introducing the principles that underpin most if not all co-operatives today.
Capitalism proved in 2010 that it no longer offers a way forward for community, enterprise or human well being.
The sight of disconsolate traders leaving Canary Wharf with their card board boxes made it clear that making money out of money is an ultimately foolish and unfulfilling enterprise if that is what capitalism is, then it is a failed scheme.
This year is the International Year of co-operation.
After a hundred years mutualism is positioning itself as a credible alternative to capitalism.
So when you go shopping consider the positive impact that your spending decisions can make, be a cheerful shopper, thank the person on the check out, shop locally, buy fair trade goods and things made, reared and produced in your area, support farmers markets and make sure that what you buy is renewable.
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