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Green Man
hedda wrote: Green Man wrote: We will never have say on 15 min smart cities, cashless society, social-credit score system, green tax.
these alleged smart cities don't sound very capitalistic which drives everything today.
What makes you think the West is now capitalist? Each passing day the public are relying more on the government!
hedda
Green Man wrote: We will never have say on 15 min smart cities, cashless society, social-credit score system, green tax.
these alleged smart cities don't sound very capitalistic which drives everything today.
Oscar Freedom
Wyot wrote: Money does buy social place and connections
Perhaps it did in the past, but - in successful businesses/organisations these days - nobody cares which uniniversity you went to. Or even knows.
Daddy is is irrelevant as the boss Mr Khan (2/Delhi) only needs to know who can solve problems and/or provide ideas for profit enhancement. Not caring about the source of your expertise.
Rewards are good - but replacements are plentiful - ensuring our punctual arrival daily at our office places. At Canary Wharf Tower - there's a random breathalyser check.
Well uni yes but prior to that a state comprehensive GM.
However when at uni I found it usually routine to equal or out perform those from Eton, Harrow, King's or Winchester (I studied law so met a lot of them). Primarily, I think, because of all the books I obsessively read outside of reading lists and for no reason other than love.
I have my dear old Dad to thank for that with his many great books always within reach (Dostoevsky when off ill from school aged 13 set my mind alight, Dickens, Hardy, Tolstoy, Russell, Swift, Dante...and on...).
No education beats a self motivated one. And the home environment, not money, is the main factor.
That said, I didn't - and don't - have the connections of the "posh school" kids and never completely fitted in (not that I tried; while at times I would have liked to, people from privilege can smell when you aren't, and there seemed - and still seems - little point pretending...).
Money does buy social place and connections, and in that sense puts mere education and natural intelligence firmly in its place.
Wyot: "Wouldn't it an absolutely spiffing idea chaps wot, wot,wot; if we pulled our socks up and show the Winchester boys and girls how we study wot, wot, wot?".
You and your class-mate must been like the remove in Billy Bunter books.
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