(December 5, 2011 at 9:17 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:Why would it be a good thing to pay the same number of people to deliver fewer and fewer letters, promising additional cost to get those letters there the next day when an email will cost nothing to get there instantaneously?
I've been thinking the same thing. A book of ten stamps lasts me about a year instead of a week as was once the case. I use email daily and pay most of my bills on line or by direct debit. I tend to use private couriers for parcels because their prices are competitive and they are easily as fast as Australia post.
I can see the public postal service here disappearing entirely by the middle of this century. Its remaining functions will be taken over by the internet or private companies. This is not what I want to happen but I think it's probably inevitable.
Probably quicker in the US:the avaricious and amoral pricks who actually run the country will continue to fuck the ordinary people up the arse. Heaven forbid big business and the rich be taxed at an equitable level or actually pay their workers a decent wage.
Keynes said; for an affluent society to develop ,you need three things: full employment,(which he defined as 97%) high wages and high taxes at all levels.Those things are true of Australia,as well as strict controls over the financial sector.None of those things are true of the US. (OK our national unemployment level is currently 5.2% **)
**source;Australian Bureau Of Census and Statistics figures for October 2011.
Thats just it, we are using the keynesian system of stimulus, but we are not holding the rich to their end of the bargain. We are supposed to be in on it together, which is how keynesian system is supposed to work, but the rich refuse to do their share. They want us to do our share, but they refuse to employ or pay their share of the taxes.
