Category: Business
Business has evolved from just being one person's vocation, to rivaling nations, so how do we make sure that that genie is still the servant.
- Business
- The latter few centuries have seen the rise of non-human entities – businesses – with their own legal rights, powers and obligations, with some being comparable in stature to states.
- A new retail model
- With the increasing internationalisation of the clothing and other manufaturing sectors, mainly to take advantage of cheap labour, bricks-and-mortar retail stores in developed countries have taken a hit.
- Business will not save us
- Constitutionally, businesses are not set up to help anyone except themselves make more money.
- Fake inflation solutions
- The typical measure taken to alleviate inflation is to increase bank borrowing rates to curb the business activity that would tend to riskier investments, but is that really working?
- Hardworking is propaganda
- An adjective often used by politicians trying to influence us to support their policies is hardworking, but what are they really doing by using it?
- Innovation
- There is much talk about promoting innovation, but do governments really get how innovation occurs?
- Sales tax - The middle class con
- Sales taxes – variously known as VAT or GST – provide governments with extra revenue. They have usually been imposed instead of the politically unpalatable action of raising personal taxes.
- Small business should not be exempt
- Small businesses are often exempt from a lot of industrial relations and tax laws because they are likely to be swamped in red tape or go under. But that often puts their employees at a disadvantage.
- The future for business
- The current neoliberal politico-economic regime in vogue around the world favours businesses, especially the larger and more exploitative ones, but this is not working for humanity or the earth.
- The jobs spin
- When politicians and business leaders talk about creating jobs, activate your spin radar, because they are not likely to be talking about well paying ones.
- The stock market
- The stock market is the official way that people provide finance for companies in return for a share of the profits. Speculation destabilises this process.
- Trusting in big business
- Governments are placing a lot of trust in businesses being the powerhouse of our economies, but investigations into the operations of big businesses show that that trust may be misplaced.