Free Markets and Meritocracy (2 Viewers)

[yoddle]

The vast, vast bulk of people are where they are because of their talent and hard work or lack thereof.

This statement makes my 'utter tosh' on company directors look like the word of God.

 

[yoddle]

This is just utter tosh. Ansett died because Air New Zealand mismanaged them terribly and Qantas' economy of scale (along with other loss-making start ups) drove them out of the market. If you're bad at your job and you're in the public eye, you get sacked. Sometimes you go to gaol. But you almost never get re-hired.

That's highly debatable, Ansett was a sick puppy long before Air New Zealand took them over in an attempt to rebrand their international wing and overhaul their expensive staffing structures. If they were threatened by new start ups then they had to do what they had to do to match them, that's what competent businesspeople do, and there's numerous examples of it in the modern aviation industry, of airlines still surviving and employing people.

 

[withoutaface]

What if you were born an indigenous Australian on palm island?

Whether indigenous communities would exist in such backwaters without the government pumping fucktonnes of welfare into them is debatable. A lot of problems associated with 'environmental disadvantage' and parental abuse could be solved if we were willing to take on a few of the sacred cows (and this is not just limited to indigenous communities, we should seriously look into moving spending on roads and infrastructure in all areas to a per capita basis over the next 20-50 years).

 

[SylviaB]

so i'll just say life isn't fair, governments have the ability to make it a little fairer.

I can see why you would think that, but how could the government be able to do this in an even remotely, realistically feasible way?

 

[russs]

The picture above says it all - its the people who want something for nothing that ruin it for the people who are willing to work, achieve and rise above.

Everybody has the potential to make it in a free market.

 

[Iron]

Haha. Did Franklin really say that?

 

[SylviaB]

Franklin is amazing.