[bct] Re: changing business world

I still believe education can improve things and its very important to
work towards improving the average level of education within the
population. Its one reason I believe two of the main roles of
government should be to ensure equal access to education and health
care regardless of socio-economic status. 

Its also the main reason I'm very disapointed with current political
directions in Australia, which over the past 20 years has been moving
towards a 'user pays' model for both education and health. Guess what,
the health and education levels of the wealthy are still increasing.
Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the less wealthy.

Tim


Mike writes:
 > I had this idea that people would become better through industrialization 
 > and the
 > educational opportunities that would bring. Education was to bring about a 
 > great
 > tolerance for difference and once people got a close look at the fact that 
 > people
 > were smart all over the world, then they would leg go their fear of people 
 > who seemed
 > different, and they would travel partly to experience difference. But it is
 > disillusioning when you discover that horrible movements and fantastic 
 > corruption in
 > the world has been firmly in the hands of people who were, well, educated.
 > 
 > So next, a grip on reality finding optimism in the hope for an incremental
 > improvement in people, the kind of thing you have to wait around you know, 
 > maybe 50
 > thousand years before finally seeing something
 > measurable.
 > 
 > The good old days of the 60's is fair, if you were happy being with people 
 > who seemed
 > to make an effort to be accepting. But then I have women friends who said 
 > all that
 > friendly stuff starting looking like a scam to, well you know.
 > 
 > Lucky the world is complicated enough we can find things to entertain us 
 > while we try
 > to remain economically viable.
 > 
 >  Mike
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: blindcooltech-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > [mailto:blindcooltech-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of The Scarlet
 > Wombat
 > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:42 PM
 > To: blindcooltech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > Subject: [bct] Re: changing business world
 > 
 > 
 > Curt, being a student of history, I gently disagree.  There may have seemed
 > to an observer to have been a time when people were more honest, but a bit
 > of digging will put pate to this belief.  There were no good old days of
 > any kind.  Human nature has remained the same for hundreds of thousands of
 > years.
 > 
 > Sometimes, people think that the fifties and sixties were a more gentle
 > age, but they were only a more secretive age, not more gentle.  People
 > working in the social fields will tell you readily that the rates of
 > spousal and child abuse have remained the same for at least a hundred
 > years, probably longer, but we know for sure nothing has changed since Jane
 > Hull founded the modern science of social work.
 > 
 > We have more people now, and thankfully, people are more willing to explore
 > unsavory habits of humans.  This exposure may result in diminishment of
 > these problems.  Remember the days of the robber barons of the 19th
 > century, they were every bit as bad in terms of business as we see today in
 > corporate America.
 > 
 > I do not mean to cast a pall on the discussion, but I must note that the
 > human condition has never been better than it is now, nor much worse,
 > either.  One hopes that we can improve.  Because, if we do not, one day, we
 > may find that we have destroyed our planet and ourselves along with it.
 > 
 > Dan
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >

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