Capitalism will save this world

[petros]

When a Corp invests in training someone they have created human capital that becomes equity for them and the person.

 

[Angstrom]

When a Corp invests in training someone they have created human capital that becomes equity for them and the person.

Knowlage is power

 

[petros]

Knowlage is power

And money. Just think how many hundreds if thousands of people who gained trades and skills from working the oils and alone. How many took them home back east thus raising the human capital of the Maritimes?

 

[Angstrom]

And money. Just think how many hundreds if thousands of people who gained trades and skills from working the oils and alone. How many took them home back east thus raising the human capital of the Maritimes?

I don't think human capital is as valuable as you seem to think.

They just want someone smart enough to pick up the telephone.

Not someone smart and knowledgeable who can become their competition.

 

[petros]

A welder trained to journeyman by a Corp is not bound or obligated to stay with that Corp. The skills are for life and portable and owed solely by that trained welder not the Corporation.

That person can walk into a bank for a loan on that human capital and start a welding business. An untrained worker cant.

 

[HarperCons]

Human Capital.



OH dear....

95% of Scientists are employed by Capitalists creating 99% of vital discoveries many of which they don't make a dime on that change life for the better for 100s of millions of people.

Any idea how much Merck charges for HIV meds for Africans? $0.00.

OH THOSE NASTY BIG PHARMA PIGS....

oh **** he's going to defend big Pharma now

 

[Cliffy]

 

[Ludlow]

I wonder how many un named employees busted their azz for JPMorgan

 

[mentalfloss]

I assume the reward you mean is profit, which you've said before. The problem is that if something were more profitable than innovation, capitalism would reward that instead. If a way to help the environment wouldn't turn a good enough profit, capitalism wouldn't motivated it. The most profitable corporations don't innovate, they expand vertically and laterally.

Bingo.

Which is why we need regulatory measures that price carbon, for instance, and use that revenue to deliberately move industries in a direction that accounts for climate change.

 

[Cliffy]

Bingo.

Which is why we need regulatory measures that price carbon, for instance, and use that revenue to deliberately move industries in a direction that accounts for climate change.

Good luck.

 

[mentalfloss]

Good luck.

BC already does it with their carbon tax.

Also, one of the side benefits of regulation is that it provides certainty to the market, which is something businesses like.

 

[Cliffy]

BC already does it with their carbon tax.

Also, one of the side benefits of regulation is that it provides certainty to the market, which is something businesses like.

BC is pushing carbon industries like LNG, coastal super tankers and tar sands pipelines. Crispy Clark is a hypocrite and a menace to society and the environment.

 

[mentalfloss]

The province is reducing carbon emissions.

 

[petros]

Bingo.

Which is why we need regulatory measures that price carbon, for instance, and use that revenue to deliberately move industries in a direction that accounts for climate change.

OH? Like using carbon tax to fund transit expansion and upgrades to NG buses and LRT projects?

That kinda thing?

 

[mentalfloss]

Yes.

 

[petros]

The province is reducing carbon emissions.

No its not. If so please explain how in detail. Even Suzuki says it's a lie that carbon taxes have lead to reduced emissions.

Why is that?

Yes.

B.C. government ‘underfunding’ of transit to blame for traffic congestion: report | Vancouver Sun

They consistently keep say no to transit funding.

 

[mentalfloss]

Yes, they have reduced their emissions.

They already made their first emissions target in 2012.

 

[petros]

How?

Give me details of how they did it.

 

[mentalfloss]

Tax incentives to larger emitters who pollute less.

 

[petros]

That isn't details. Give the bread and butter.