tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post8133647584018759966..comments2023-12-30T01:47:45.604-08:00Comments on servethepeople: Clive Palmer’s Christmas PresentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34598853.post-40139846214565718162011-03-09T02:01:17.555-08:002011-03-09T02:01:17.555-08:00A belief in the permanency of a stable, contradict...A belief in the permanency of a stable, contradiction free capitalism ,delivering a secure high waged future to the Australian people just from royalties on resources and incomes from shares they may not even have company shares in, without the need for class struggle or a struggle for national independence is also … “a nice little intellectual exercise” in wishful thinking. “Which is fine.”<br />Just sit back and enjoy the ride ! <br />But ,that’s a bit like believing in faith in capitalist stability in the old days, that all Australians could live forever with high boom time incomes ,with work for all and that everybody could live like fat pigs off the sheep’s back forever. <br />With relative stability of spuds and a 2 mutton chops bonus on every plate!<br /> <br />But practice, reality , tends to trump these nice intellectual exercises of faith in a benevolent capitalism<br /><br /> “Someone will always want to mine our quarries”<br />I suppose all those old time pick and shovel ozzie coal miners thought their incomes were stable and secure too! … <br />“capitalism still has plenty of reserves.” <br />And indeed it does, for example the possibility of capitalists investing competitively in coal and other mineral resources mines in other countries ,like they are doing now building infrastructure in China, and in Africa, complete with that other “resource” it can tap into cheaper labour.<br /><br />But “Someone will always want to mine “OUR” quarries” and the high price boom will last forever!Right!<br />b.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com