Veronika Wild

- Image by Copilot Good Morning/ Afternoon/ Evening Class! Today we are going to talk about Taxes – I can hear your collective eye -roll, and why this specifically concerns you. Before we start, anyone who already understands this, such as any member of the Patriotic Millionaire’s Club , Millionaires Against Pitchforks or Millionaires for Humanity, has a hall pass and may skip this lesson. The rest of you please pay close attention and some of you younger ones, especially you Elon, Mark, Sergey and Larry, and you too Jeff and Gina, and anyone else who skipped History classes or thinks they owe nothing to society at large - proponents of "The Virtue of Selfishness" and all that, please sit closer to the front so that you don’t miss anything. There will be a short test at the end of class. Why we need more Taxes As you know if you have read the previous post (go back and read it if you haven't), governments are already struggling to meet the demands of previous...

Rethinking the way we live in a finite world One of Jay's Murals How ironic that the very virtues which made us wealthy as individuals and societies – hard work, ever expanding productivity and turnover -are the very ones which are likely to bring us undone as a species. I had a lecturer at university who had originally trained as a leisure consultant because in the 80’s it was feared that with increasing automation, untold numbers of people would be left idle with no idea as to what to do with themselves.  It could have been the Golden Age. People could have pursued the Arts, new music, new forms of creativity and entertainment, new Knowledge upon which to create new industries and new forms of finding value and satisfaction from doing the work in society which needed doing, especially as the advent of the personal computer could have made all knowledge available to all. Indeed, there was a brief Utopian flowering as people experimented with other ways of living, then ...