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** Much appreciated, Jill. I'm sending the whole of it to some friends in
the NZ Greens, including their (co-)leader.
** I presume the:
Title is: The Ownership Solution
Author is: Bill Gates
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At 06:52 23/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Chapter 3 of The Ownership Solution starts ...
>"Capitalism is not designed to create more capitalists; its is designed to
>finance more capital for existing capitalists."
> ...
>U.S. people, Gates thinks, have access to the wrong sort of credit -
>consumer credit, rather than investment credit.
>
>Trickle down economics resulted in cutbacks in public services, ...
>The marketplace is simultaneously disempowering those who work, while
>empowering those who own. The response from the public sector ..."ignoring
>the need for 'upstream' policies that could connect their constituents to
>those income-producing assets that are steadily displacing them" ...
> "This 'symptomatic economics' arises from the same school of
>thought that sees money as a cure for poverty or food as the solution to
>hunger. A lack of money is a symptom, not a cause, of poverty. Poverty
>is cured not with money but by gaining access to the productiveness - the
>skills and the tools - required to earn money."
>
> Jill
>
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David.
(David MacClement) mailto:d1v9d@bigfoot.com
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