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Mildly interesting article in the smh today about university education, the thrust of which is that too much university education may actually hinder the economy. This ties in with issues around whether our current system creates qualification inflation (devaluing) and creates a dead-weight-loss...

Guns are indeed involved with people dying through murder, suicide and accidents. They are hardly however the only factor. As shown below: Murder = shooting deaths + datbbing deaths + bludgeoning deaths + strangulation deaths + defenestration + etc etc Suicide = people who shoot themselves...

sorry for the spoiler, should have done the spoiler cover thing. My bad.

st8 edge 4 lyf m8

Lesser of two evils in this situation and much closer to capitalism.

Valid point. If you ignore that democracy was imposed on the West by an invading Army.

Yeah I heard that they thrived under communism....

AFAIK pharmacies are a relatively regulated industry. Only so many can operate in a given area, the supermarket chains aren't allowed to compete with them, etc. I think that this is a clear case of if you benefit from government regulation (protectionism) then you must be prepared to comply with...

I know you're not the only one in the thread doing it, but for what it's worth I don't think ad hominem is ever productive.

There is no such thing as 'works in theory doesn't work in practice'. If that happens then there is a mistake in theory, and in the case of communism the mistake is fundamental to the theory. Communism does not work for humans. Communism does not solve the economic calculation problem. So we...

Yeah gotta get me some of that authentic communism.

Noting that I don't accept that Jesus was necasserily a real man, even within Christianity it is Peter who establishes the church, not Jesus. Certainly there is guidance in the bible about the 'spirit' of Christianity however we have no record of Jesus laying out his plan for the Church...

I think you mistake me. Perhaps even seek to paint me as the 'other'. Mankind is collective humanity and indeed is much greater than the sum of it's parts because individuals exercise comparitively low power at an all of mankind level but as a whole mankind can reshape itself and it's...

Good article but I hadn't read it. Motivated by the date, govt responses to the GFC and the ABC doco 'Lost Worlds of Communism'. ;)

On the contrary comrade I am fiercly committed to life and the individual. I support the market because I strongly believe (and the evidence supports me) that the market is better for individuals, far from being cogs in a machine (as they are under communism), they are actors in the system with...

True but should it be embraced and expanded or resisted and minimised. The trend in the corporate world is certainly towards minimisation because of the effeciency/productivity benefits.

Surely you wouldn't be claiming that Christ needs to speak irl to people for it to matter? That rather seems to defeat the omnipresence/omnipotence argument.... and undermine the legitimacy of the papacy as the voice of God on Earth.... Also even if you believe that Christ spoke irl to St...

I hope you enjoy being able to romanticise communism while enjoying the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by anyone, anywhere - courtesy of the free market/free society. Also I note that in 1949 free elections were held in West Germany while the same year in East Germany a socialist...

My understanding is the St Peter and St Paul were the big players in the founding of the church and neither of them were Jesus or God - within Catholicism I understand that they would have been acting under instruction. Similar analysis applies to the Great Schism and the Reformation which both...

The church is a man-made institution :p