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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.