“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.”
Source : TheGuardian
Tag: capitalism
Capitalism vs. the Climate
“A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent —well under half the population.”
Source : The Nation
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Quote of the week
“Brazil was the first country to pass a law guaranteeing a minimum income: in 2004, President Lula signed the law guaranteeing “an unconditional basic income, or citizenship income” for every Brazilian citizen or foreigner resident for five years or more. The payment will be of equal value, payable in monthly amounts and sufficient to cover “minimal expenses in food, housing, education and health care,” taking into account “the country’s level of development and budgetary possibilities.”
— Living in the End Times :by Slavoj Zizek
1.Sweden’s free school experiment
“Osterman also doesn’t believe it’s necessarily a bad thing. “We are becoming a school for ambitious immigrants,” he said.
But as I was leaving his school, one of his students, Mohammed Mahmoud, put it differently. “This is a school for criminals,” he declared, to laughter. “Nobody’s working in this school, because no one here has any future.”
education,sweden,policy,culture
Source :The Guardian
2. What Do You Want to Say You’ve Done?
“Instead, base your career decisions (at least in part) on what hope to say when you look back on your life. You may not always succeed, but are unlikely to look back with regret on those decisions that gave you the opportunity to reach your aspirations.”
culture,life
Source : Harvard Business Review
3. Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
“I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day. Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends.”
media,culture,usa
Source :New York Magazine
4. UK riots were product of consumerism and will hit economy, says City broker
“The dominant ethos of ‘I buy, therefore I am’ needs to be challenged by a shift of emphasis from material to non-material values.”
capitalism,uk,riots,culture
Source : The Guardian
5. NYTimes: Where Pay for Chiefs Outstrips U.S. Taxes
“The authors of a new study said their findings suggested that current United States business policy was rewarding tax avoidance rather than innovation.”
economics,policy,tax rate,usa
Source : The New York Times
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– Kaushik
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