Monday, January 21, 2019
Fatcheck
You have heard of ABC fact check , Its where according to the apostles and the new pedantry we find the truth in mere facts. Pity there is too much fat , Such adventures seldom go more than skin deep In the internet age they keep people busy and listening . Thats enough for our misleading media empires .
Why stats and facts won't improve health care for example.
Managers don't know staff or trust them and any out like the monitoring out is easy for such characters- in a more completely respeonsible structure such lost people would drop out .With cyicsism and a ne job to do they have work to do.
Pity it breeds cynicism and abandonment to cynicism . That wouldn't worry Insiders and Innocents
We have lost sight of how individual inspiration to care can be fostered and encouraged - the way that marked many of our forebears way of thinking and sense of freedom, hierarchy and responsibility. We have replaced it with something that can "works" in industry but never works in community- distrust, a preoccupation with dumb mechanistic efficiency ( from the market ) and force. what a mess http://govisnotbusiness.blogspot.com
Why stats and facts won't improve health care for example.
Managers don't know staff or trust them and any out like the monitoring out is easy for such characters- in a more completely respeonsible structure such lost people would drop out .With cyicsism and a ne job to do they have work to do.
Pity it breeds cynicism and abandonment to cynicism . That wouldn't worry Insiders and Innocents
If I don't want to , you can't make me. and worse if you need statistics to prove to you that I have a problem - the problem is yours (as a leader,)
Labels: cassidy innocents fact checking
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Giving freedom and avoiding Cliffs is productivity modelling
Sach and Ross Gittins are in the news this week
(SydneyMH) talking about big picture economic policy . About time I say ; Many economists haven't really factored scarcity and regeneration elements into their plain 2 dimensional ledger sheet modelling. That doesn't help our leaders who really need a good lead here !
The real world is more than supply and demand control but you wouldn't know that listening to the desperate and careless talk of leaders and the majority of the audience at the moment .The Free marketeers need a good kick where it hurts !( I am talking about their simple mind games mostly)? Below is a piece I posted elsewhere . Feel free to join me on ecomia anytime .
Sound big picture economists and practical ecologists have always started with a conversation about elasticity .Bigger picture discussions must move from plain elasticity to resilience assessment.
Resilience assessment
tells you how close to the cliff others are and if you don't factor that in,
people will fall off!! This cartoon I drew in 2007 .
Everyone tells about my old work even though "noone
", I know anyway , is still doing much at its edges . Resilience is a key
consideration in eco -nomics and one of its measures is elasticity. Elasticity
in connections .
The blunt nature of the current fiddling with the old S&D
instrument is blatantly obvious in the present Australian govt's ham fisted attempts to
increase energy prices to reduce demand (a very thick trick)and their careless
feather bedding of the already rich water and other resource industries by
talking up the need for water demand control .
Tax is a win win thing under their simple and simplistic choices.
Tax is a win win thing under their simple and simplistic choices.
Putting prices up,( and giving handouts) is something polys and S&D freaks understand
, which means they might think they know what they are doing--- if Sir Humphrey
is not present -
Until you show them the effects of in-elasticity and steep
loss of control at the intersection of the 2 curves and how that can create
wars, and bring down governments they get" intoxicated by their own wisdom
"; They, like the media and the
game audience will play with things they don't really understand -our
shared resources ( oikonomia) It all
seemed like some power over people at last !!!!
It seems to me that good economic management is a bit like
parenting in relation to S&D . You make distinctions about when and when
not to interfere ( Good governance was Sachs point) Morally and materially you
don't want to stop how your kids spend money( eco freedom ) but you may
influence how much disposable they have ( role of govt )
Let’s not pretend we should ditch what worked OK in the past
( Oikonomia and professional study of these matters ) for a dangerous media led
game which plays around at the edges of cliffs ( and doesn’t know it ) With cliffs – someone needs to know just how close they are and it
isn’t fair to expect the children to know !
Labels: cliffs, economics environment, good governance, household, resilience, sachs, scarcity, short term gain long term pain, supply and demand, wisdom
Monday, August 20, 2012
Red tape and relying on the unreliable
Politicians don't like to point to it ,but all parties rely on advice from others . All parties have made the grand mistake that they should include/increase the amount of business advice they get from parties outside their own . Now all parties and Shires are overwhelmed , even snowed by these indigestable documents from business but asked for by the bureau . Unless the States go back to ensuring that shires and enviro departments have staff to digest this stuff they will continue to get snowed by them . Now Abbott thinks that Canberra can help . The only way it can help is to stop the snowing.
As the coal stuff shows, if you have a got a big budget ,even the biggest media campaign can't win against a pile of sacred PAPER which only the rich proponents can understand .And it doesn't stop there . Every sentence is grist for the lawyers mill so that the productivity of the process is clearly the lowest in the OECD . Low point too in the liberal mind of 2012.
The only way Canberra and the party can help is to stop the snowing . Their own operatives used to be able to resist the snowing by setting the brief and limiting the bull . Now the huge bureaus just gets swamped by it .Radical thinking BEFORE falling for radical surgery.
As the coal stuff shows, if you have a got a big budget ,even the biggest media campaign can't win against a pile of sacred PAPER which only the rich proponents can understand .And it doesn't stop there . Every sentence is grist for the lawyers mill so that the productivity of the process is clearly the lowest in the OECD . Low point too in the liberal mind of 2012.
The only way Canberra and the party can help is to stop the snowing . Their own operatives used to be able to resist the snowing by setting the brief and limiting the bull . Now the huge bureaus just gets swamped by it .Radical thinking BEFORE falling for radical surgery.
Monday, August 06, 2012
sycophants to big money interests in compete denail
One can only wonder why Bob Katter got a guernsey to appear on qanda tonight . One presumes the god makers thought he would make enough gaffs to make him only entertainment value . The last thing anyone in the wannabe famous audience wants to do is to take him seriuosly .
He doesn't know everything, but he was the one who started the selling the farm debate that has dragged all the participants in tonight.
Our societies failure to invest in the capital and run on the cash is the truth - terrible for us that we don't want to hear it .
Hope some young people in the audience will recognize a genuine bloke who has faithfully sought alone to represent the minority view.
Silly old fabians can't even see why they are becoming increasingly irrelevant , they talk big about big interests but follow, as Bob said tonight , the conservatives down the sycophants road to market driven exploitation and nirvana (depending on which silly extreme nonsense chair you sit on )
if you live on the earth , not just talk about the earth , you learn these things and you build, not end up with egg or some now well dated old reactionaries tune on your lips /face.
He doesn't know everything, but he was the one who started the selling the farm debate that has dragged all the participants in tonight.
Our societies failure to invest in the capital and run on the cash is the truth - terrible for us that we don't want to hear it .
Hope some young people in the audience will recognize a genuine bloke who has faithfully sought alone to represent the minority view.
Silly old fabians can't even see why they are becoming increasingly irrelevant , they talk big about big interests but follow, as Bob said tonight , the conservatives down the sycophants road to market driven exploitation and nirvana (depending on which silly extreme nonsense chair you sit on )
if you live on the earth , not just talk about the earth , you learn these things and you build, not end up with egg or some now well dated old reactionaries tune on your lips /face.
Labels: bob katter, fabianism, humor, qanda, ridicule
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Nothing will change in the West till the West takes Weber seriously
If ecology, we talk about drivers . In economics of today there is no contest; there is only one driver and its name is "the market" ; very dumb ( monocultural)and almost religiuos in nature
This weeks WEF ( World Economic Forum ) be just another waster of time unless there is a bit more diversity in the discussion about who drives what when and where. If we ecologists did business like most wannabes do business we wouldn't have one to run .
Woosy governnments are partly a product of their own stupidity - created as they often now are - in the image of the market.
One hopes the hit to the fanatasy of faith in real estate values will shake them
This weeks WEF ( World Economic Forum ) be just another waster of time unless there is a bit more diversity in the discussion about who drives what when and where. If we ecologists did business like most wannabes do business we wouldn't have one to run .
Woosy governnments are partly a product of their own stupidity - created as they often now are - in the image of the market.
One hopes the hit to the fanatasy of faith in real estate values will shake them
Labels: economic ecology, WEF, world economic forum
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
There are some people who know how to make a green economy
But they don't work for Julia and Greenlabor . Chris Ullman (ABCTV )hosted a most welcome discussion tonight that finally let a few experts speak . Jeff,Ian and Judith were so good and reminded us that Greenlabor were more interested in some esoteric kindergarten acccountancy than the stuff that has made this country as good as it is.
Friday, May 06, 2011
Governments across the West stuck in rut of their own making
Do I believe in capitalism ?
Yes provided it believes in supporting water treatment - purification . Clarity of its benefits and clarity of its limits.
As a production ecologist to the rural sector I say, remember what really works hidden inside the cooperating ecosystems inside us and around us (so much more efficient in energy use than we ever will be )
Compare our brilliant invention in capitalism which I have to say, a la Churchill ," works quite well amongst all those that have been tried ".
BUT The unthinking acceptance of capiitalism ( rife now in government on both sides of politics) is making the rich richer and the poor poorer ......and suits those who love to play exploitative games and have the capital ( and the deterministic mindset) to back them.
Capitalism is not balanced in the same way as a focus on mere competition is not balanced . A mere standard tax on carbon for the poor is a much bigger burden to them than it is those with big cash flows .( not a feature of rural economy)
We must, for those in rural areas esp ,who manage these sensitive ecosystems with more tools than an accountant has seen numbers , stop bundling economic and ecological issues into old wineskins of categories and take seriously the diversity of genuine physical and technological forces and worldviews which together shape sound sustainability.
Yes provided it believes in supporting water treatment - purification . Clarity of its benefits and clarity of its limits.
As a production ecologist to the rural sector I say, remember what really works hidden inside the cooperating ecosystems inside us and around us (so much more efficient in energy use than we ever will be )
Compare our brilliant invention in capitalism which I have to say, a la Churchill ," works quite well amongst all those that have been tried ".
BUT The unthinking acceptance of capiitalism ( rife now in government on both sides of politics) is making the rich richer and the poor poorer ......and suits those who love to play exploitative games and have the capital ( and the deterministic mindset) to back them.
Capitalism is not balanced in the same way as a focus on mere competition is not balanced . A mere standard tax on carbon for the poor is a much bigger burden to them than it is those with big cash flows .( not a feature of rural economy)
We must, for those in rural areas esp ,who manage these sensitive ecosystems with more tools than an accountant has seen numbers , stop bundling economic and ecological issues into old wineskins of categories and take seriously the diversity of genuine physical and technological forces and worldviews which together shape sound sustainability.
