- Australia in declineShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
After climbing the entrance steps, the group will be at the first or second table on the right.
Do you want your children's lives the be substantially poorer than yours? Do you want your grandchildren's lives to be even worse than that? That is trajectory we are on at the moment and have been for several decades. Unpleasant as it sounds, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics clearly demonstrates this. This is liberalized Capitalism, Capitalism at it's worst. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the dominant ideology was the same and produced the same extreme inequality, monopolies and ultimately culminated in the Great depression. The Capitalists don't have any plan to fix this, they are just junkies addicted to money and power and all they care about is getting their next fix.
Democracy has been in decline in Australia since the 1970s. This country has become substantially less politically, socially and economically equal during this time period. The vast majority of the population, the working class, have become more and more politically impotent, their standard of living has grown worse and worse and our society more and more atomised, individualistic, hierarchical and fiercely competitive. All this has had a terrible effect on the mental health of the population. There are now much fewer working class people sitting in parliament and much fewer elected representatives of working class/left wing political parties. Union membership has shrunk substantially. The number of democratic businesses has also greatly reduced. Public services are in decline, with greatly reduced funding, much fewer employees, and inferior quality. The economic situation for working class has also greatly worsened, the cost of living has grown hugely, housing, electricity, petrol, childcare, education and many other necessities of life have grown much more expensive. Wage growth has stagnated for the last decade. Economic inequality has increased substantially, the top 10 and 1% most wealthy members of our society claim a much larger share of the nations wealth than they used to. The influence of money over the political system has also grown, with the amount of money spent on elections growing steadily for the past few decades, making political campaigning less and less accessible to the working class. The social life of most Australians has also declined, membership in social clubs and groups has diminished, larger numbers of people report feeling loneliness. The political, economic and social aspects of our lives are all heavily interconnected, a decline in one causes decline in the others. Australia is becoming less and less humanistic with each passing decade, this is a disturbing and sad phenomenon that must be rectified. However, the are some exceptions to this overall trend, the status of women and LGBTIQ+ people has improved substantially although there is a long way to go before these groups are truly equal, and working class people within these groups have experienced same worsening political and economic conditions as all other workers. It's great gay people can get married and adopt kids but they largely cannot afford to buy homes for their families or afford childcare for their kids. The health of the population also seems to have improved in many ways, life expectancy has increased but also chronic illness has increased. There are probably three main reasons for the trend of declining humanism, the undemocratic nature of our mass media and education systems that spread anti-human propaganda, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has conspired to destroy the labour movement and our political system is heavily biased in favour of the rich.
If we had responsible leaders, there are relatively straightforward measures they would take to restore power to the people like banning the ownership of investment properties, providing subsidies to help form co-operative businesses, nationalising core industries and greater public investment in these industries(particularly banking), developing the general political/social/economic consciousness of the population with classes in school and promotional information throughout the mass media. Money should be taken out of the political system entirely by banning donations to political parties. ASIO should be dismantled and rebuilt with a more democratic organization so that it actually functions to defend the population. These are probably not the only possible solutions, but they are one's that history has proven to be effective and practical, resulting in a measurably more humanistic system.
Here is the full article.
https://sydney-humanism-group.weebly.com/blog/australian-democracy
- Co-operative EconomicsShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
When you arrive, if you go up the entrance steps and look right, you will see us at one of the first few tables.
Running a business in a democratic way has numerous benefits. Worker Co-operatives are less risky to startup, tend to have a longer lifespan, the workplace environment is more friendly because there aren't really "bosses", workers are better paid and less likely to be fired. The Mondragon Co-operative in Spain even has their own university with which to retrain workers if any jobs are made redundant for any reason, perhaps because of automation or the market naturally has less demand for certain goods or services. I've linked some videos below with more information about Co-ops. You don't have to watch them all, but a few of them should be enough.
There is a variety of different kinds of cooperatives. Some are direct democracies with an assembly that all members can vote in on any issue, others are more like representative democracies, others are a hybrid of both. The proportion of the revenue to re-invest in the company and how much to pay to the workers can vary, usually decided by a vote of the members. The exact procedures of voting, methods of initiating referenda or elections can vary and may be easier or more difficult.
Co-operatives can also behave more or less like Capitalist corporations. In some cases there may be a group of workers who partially own the company but they become somewhat oligarchic and start hiring labourers who are not shareholders. In some cases Capitalist companies may decide to start selling stocks to their workers in order to become somewhat like Co-operatives.
Some countries have even experimented with making co-operatives the dominant form of enterprise, often with great success. We will discuss this further at later events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbfOxUx8ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyepUAtHAL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoI0C1mPek&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvlVIXETd0&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oD9oeut7U
- Australia in declineShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
After climbing the entrance steps, the group will be at the first or second table on the right.
Do you want your children's lives the be substantially poorer than yours? Do you want your grandchildren's lives to be even worse than that? That is trajectory we are on at the moment and have been for several decades. Unpleasant as it sounds, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics clearly demonstrates this. This is liberalized Capitalism, Capitalism at it's worst. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the dominant ideology was the same and produced the same extreme inequality, monopolies and ultimately culminated in the Great depression. The Capitalists don't have any plan to fix this, they are just junkies addicted to money and power and all they care about is getting their next fix.
Democracy has been in decline in Australia since the 1970s. This country has become substantially less politically, socially and economically equal during this time period. The vast majority of the population, the working class, have become more and more politically impotent, their standard of living has grown worse and worse and our society more and more atomised, individualistic, hierarchical and fiercely competitive. All this has had a terrible effect on the mental health of the population. There are now much fewer working class people sitting in parliament and much fewer elected representatives of working class/left wing political parties. Union membership has shrunk substantially. The number of democratic businesses has also greatly reduced. Public services are in decline, with greatly reduced funding, much fewer employees, and inferior quality. The economic situation for working class has also greatly worsened, the cost of living has grown hugely, housing, electricity, petrol, childcare, education and many other necessities of life have grown much more expensive. Wage growth has stagnated for the last decade. Economic inequality has increased substantially, the top 10 and 1% most wealthy members of our society claim a much larger share of the nations wealth than they used to. The influence of money over the political system has also grown, with the amount of money spent on elections growing steadily for the past few decades, making political campaigning less and less accessible to the working class. The social life of most Australians has also declined, membership in social clubs and groups has diminished, larger numbers of people report feeling loneliness. The political, economic and social aspects of our lives are all heavily interconnected, a decline in one causes decline in the others. Australia is becoming less and less humanistic with each passing decade, this is a disturbing and sad phenomenon that must be rectified. However, the are some exceptions to this overall trend, the status of women and LGBTIQ+ people has improved substantially although there is a long way to go before these groups are truly equal, and working class people within these groups have experienced same worsening political and economic conditions as all other workers. It's great gay people can get married and adopt kids but they largely cannot afford to buy homes for their families or afford childcare for their kids. The health of the population also seems to have improved in many ways, life expectancy has increased but also chronic illness has increased. There are probably three main reasons for the trend of declining humanism, the undemocratic nature of our mass media and education systems that spread anti-human propaganda, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has conspired to destroy the labour movement and our political system is heavily biased in favour of the rich.
If we had responsible leaders, there are relatively straightforward measures they would take to restore power to the people like banning the ownership of investment properties, providing subsidies to help form co-operative businesses, nationalising core industries and greater public investment in these industries(particularly banking), developing the general political/social/economic consciousness of the population with classes in school and promotional information throughout the mass media. Money should be taken out of the political system entirely by banning donations to political parties. ASIO should be dismantled and rebuilt with a more democratic organization so that it actually functions to defend the population. These are probably not the only possible solutions, but they are one's that history has proven to be effective and practical, resulting in a measurably more humanistic system.
Here is the full article.
https://sydney-humanism-group.weebly.com/blog/australian-democracy
- Co-operative EconomicsShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
When you arrive, if you go up the entrance steps and look right, you will see us at one of the first few tables.
Running a business in a democratic way has numerous benefits. Worker Co-operatives are less risky to startup, tend to have a longer lifespan, the workplace environment is more friendly because there aren't really "bosses", workers are better paid and less likely to be fired. The Mondragon Co-operative in Spain even has their own university with which to retrain workers if any jobs are made redundant for any reason, perhaps because of automation or the market naturally has less demand for certain goods or services. I've linked some videos below with more information about Co-ops. You don't have to watch them all, but a few of them should be enough.
There is a variety of different kinds of cooperatives. Some are direct democracies with an assembly that all members can vote in on any issue, others are more like representative democracies, others are a hybrid of both. The proportion of the revenue to re-invest in the company and how much to pay to the workers can vary, usually decided by a vote of the members. The exact procedures of voting, methods of initiating referenda or elections can vary and may be easier or more difficult.
Co-operatives can also behave more or less like Capitalist corporations. In some cases there may be a group of workers who partially own the company but they become somewhat oligarchic and start hiring labourers who are not shareholders. In some cases Capitalist companies may decide to start selling stocks to their workers in order to become somewhat like Co-operatives.
Some countries have even experimented with making co-operatives the dominant form of enterprise, often with great success. We will discuss this further at later events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbfOxUx8ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyepUAtHAL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoI0C1mPek&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvlVIXETd0&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oD9oeut7U
- Australia in declineShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
After climbing the entrance steps, the group will be at the first or second table on the right.
Do you want your children's lives the be substantially poorer than yours? Do you want your grandchildren's lives to be even worse than that? That is trajectory we are on at the moment and have been for several decades. Unpleasant as it sounds, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics clearly demonstrates this. This is liberalized Capitalism, Capitalism at it's worst. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the dominant ideology was the same and produced the same extreme inequality, monopolies and ultimately culminated in the Great depression. The Capitalists don't have any plan to fix this, they are just junkies addicted to money and power and all they care about is getting their next fix.
Democracy has been in decline in Australia since the 1970s. This country has become substantially less politically, socially and economically equal during this time period. The vast majority of the population, the working class, have become more and more politically impotent, their standard of living has grown worse and worse and our society more and more atomised, individualistic, hierarchical and fiercely competitive. All this has had a terrible effect on the mental health of the population. There are now much fewer working class people sitting in parliament and much fewer elected representatives of working class/left wing political parties. Union membership has shrunk substantially. The number of democratic businesses has also greatly reduced. Public services are in decline, with greatly reduced funding, much fewer employees, and inferior quality. The economic situation for working class has also greatly worsened, the cost of living has grown hugely, housing, electricity, petrol, childcare, education and many other necessities of life have grown much more expensive. Wage growth has stagnated for the last decade. Economic inequality has increased substantially, the top 10 and 1% most wealthy members of our society claim a much larger share of the nations wealth than they used to. The influence of money over the political system has also grown, with the amount of money spent on elections growing steadily for the past few decades, making political campaigning less and less accessible to the working class. The social life of most Australians has also declined, membership in social clubs and groups has diminished, larger numbers of people report feeling loneliness. The political, economic and social aspects of our lives are all heavily interconnected, a decline in one causes decline in the others. Australia is becoming less and less humanistic with each passing decade, this is a disturbing and sad phenomenon that must be rectified. However, the are some exceptions to this overall trend, the status of women and LGBTIQ+ people has improved substantially although there is a long way to go before these groups are truly equal, and working class people within these groups have experienced same worsening political and economic conditions as all other workers. It's great gay people can get married and adopt kids but they largely cannot afford to buy homes for their families or afford childcare for their kids. The health of the population also seems to have improved in many ways, life expectancy has increased but also chronic illness has increased. There are probably three main reasons for the trend of declining humanism, the undemocratic nature of our mass media and education systems that spread anti-human propaganda, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has conspired to destroy the labour movement and our political system is heavily biased in favour of the rich.
If we had responsible leaders, there are relatively straightforward measures they would take to restore power to the people like banning the ownership of investment properties, providing subsidies to help form co-operative businesses, nationalising core industries and greater public investment in these industries(particularly banking), developing the general political/social/economic consciousness of the population with classes in school and promotional information throughout the mass media. Money should be taken out of the political system entirely by banning donations to political parties. ASIO should be dismantled and rebuilt with a more democratic organization so that it actually functions to defend the population. These are probably not the only possible solutions, but they are one's that history has proven to be effective and practical, resulting in a measurably more humanistic system.
Here is the full article.
https://sydney-humanism-group.weebly.com/blog/australian-democracy
- Co-operative EconomicsShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
When you arrive, if you go up the entrance steps and look right, you will see us at one of the first few tables.
Running a business in a democratic way has numerous benefits. Worker Co-operatives are less risky to startup, tend to have a longer lifespan, the workplace environment is more friendly because there aren't really "bosses", workers are better paid and less likely to be fired. The Mondragon Co-operative in Spain even has their own university with which to retrain workers if any jobs are made redundant for any reason, perhaps because of automation or the market naturally has less demand for certain goods or services. I've linked some videos below with more information about Co-ops. You don't have to watch them all, but a few of them should be enough.
There is a variety of different kinds of cooperatives. Some are direct democracies with an assembly that all members can vote in on any issue, others are more like representative democracies, others are a hybrid of both. The proportion of the revenue to re-invest in the company and how much to pay to the workers can vary, usually decided by a vote of the members. The exact procedures of voting, methods of initiating referenda or elections can vary and may be easier or more difficult.
Co-operatives can also behave more or less like Capitalist corporations. In some cases there may be a group of workers who partially own the company but they become somewhat oligarchic and start hiring labourers who are not shareholders. In some cases Capitalist companies may decide to start selling stocks to their workers in order to become somewhat like Co-operatives.
Some countries have even experimented with making co-operatives the dominant form of enterprise, often with great success. We will discuss this further at later events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbfOxUx8ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyepUAtHAL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoI0C1mPek&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvlVIXETd0&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oD9oeut7U
- Australia in declineShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
After climbing the entrance steps, the group will be at the first or second table on the right.
Do you want your children's lives the be substantially poorer than yours? Do you want your grandchildren's lives to be even worse than that? That is trajectory we are on at the moment and have been for several decades. Unpleasant as it sounds, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics clearly demonstrates this. This is liberalized Capitalism, Capitalism at it's worst. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the dominant ideology was the same and produced the same extreme inequality, monopolies and ultimately culminated in the Great depression. The Capitalists don't have any plan to fix this, they are just junkies addicted to money and power and all they care about is getting their next fix.
Democracy has been in decline in Australia since the 1970s. This country has become substantially less politically, socially and economically equal during this time period. The vast majority of the population, the working class, have become more and more politically impotent, their standard of living has grown worse and worse and our society more and more atomised, individualistic, hierarchical and fiercely competitive. All this has had a terrible effect on the mental health of the population. There are now much fewer working class people sitting in parliament and much fewer elected representatives of working class/left wing political parties. Union membership has shrunk substantially. The number of democratic businesses has also greatly reduced. Public services are in decline, with greatly reduced funding, much fewer employees, and inferior quality. The economic situation for working class has also greatly worsened, the cost of living has grown hugely, housing, electricity, petrol, childcare, education and many other necessities of life have grown much more expensive. Wage growth has stagnated for the last decade. Economic inequality has increased substantially, the top 10 and 1% most wealthy members of our society claim a much larger share of the nations wealth than they used to. The influence of money over the political system has also grown, with the amount of money spent on elections growing steadily for the past few decades, making political campaigning less and less accessible to the working class. The social life of most Australians has also declined, membership in social clubs and groups has diminished, larger numbers of people report feeling loneliness. The political, economic and social aspects of our lives are all heavily interconnected, a decline in one causes decline in the others. Australia is becoming less and less humanistic with each passing decade, this is a disturbing and sad phenomenon that must be rectified. However, the are some exceptions to this overall trend, the status of women and LGBTIQ+ people has improved substantially although there is a long way to go before these groups are truly equal, and working class people within these groups have experienced same worsening political and economic conditions as all other workers. It's great gay people can get married and adopt kids but they largely cannot afford to buy homes for their families or afford childcare for their kids. The health of the population also seems to have improved in many ways, life expectancy has increased but also chronic illness has increased. There are probably three main reasons for the trend of declining humanism, the undemocratic nature of our mass media and education systems that spread anti-human propaganda, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has conspired to destroy the labour movement and our political system is heavily biased in favour of the rich.
If we had responsible leaders, there are relatively straightforward measures they would take to restore power to the people like banning the ownership of investment properties, providing subsidies to help form co-operative businesses, nationalising core industries and greater public investment in these industries(particularly banking), developing the general political/social/economic consciousness of the population with classes in school and promotional information throughout the mass media. Money should be taken out of the political system entirely by banning donations to political parties. ASIO should be dismantled and rebuilt with a more democratic organization so that it actually functions to defend the population. These are probably not the only possible solutions, but they are one's that history has proven to be effective and practical, resulting in a measurably more humanistic system.
Here is the full article.
https://sydney-humanism-group.weebly.com/blog/australian-democracy
- Co-operative EconomicsShark Hotel, Sydney, NS
When you arrive, if you go up the entrance steps and look right, you will see us at one of the first few tables.
Running a business in a democratic way has numerous benefits. Worker Co-operatives are less risky to startup, tend to have a longer lifespan, the workplace environment is more friendly because there aren't really "bosses", workers are better paid and less likely to be fired. The Mondragon Co-operative in Spain even has their own university with which to retrain workers if any jobs are made redundant for any reason, perhaps because of automation or the market naturally has less demand for certain goods or services. I've linked some videos below with more information about Co-ops. You don't have to watch them all, but a few of them should be enough.
There is a variety of different kinds of cooperatives. Some are direct democracies with an assembly that all members can vote in on any issue, others are more like representative democracies, others are a hybrid of both. The proportion of the revenue to re-invest in the company and how much to pay to the workers can vary, usually decided by a vote of the members. The exact procedures of voting, methods of initiating referenda or elections can vary and may be easier or more difficult.
Co-operatives can also behave more or less like Capitalist corporations. In some cases there may be a group of workers who partially own the company but they become somewhat oligarchic and start hiring labourers who are not shareholders. In some cases Capitalist companies may decide to start selling stocks to their workers in order to become somewhat like Co-operatives.
Some countries have even experimented with making co-operatives the dominant form of enterprise, often with great success. We will discuss this further at later events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbfOxUx8ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyepUAtHAL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoI0C1mPek&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvlVIXETd0&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oD9oeut7U