whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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How does your arithmetic work? For every day worked in future the worker earns 1,5% extra due to the strike, (7,5%-6%). For every day lost he therefore has to work 100/1,5=66,6 days to make up the

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...ne such a protest taking place in Zimbabwe? Do you think Mugabe\'s police would be as generous? And a strike is no more effective than a war. Sooner or later an agreement requires dialogue. An...

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...matter in the world are economic decisions, and these are not controlled by parliament. That\'s why a strike is more powerful than a vote....

4. The tragedy of Burma, should we help, how to help
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...rs can be jailed for shoddy construction. Wealthy nations are more able to help themselves when disaster strikes. Yet none of that is relevant here. The people who suffer during such disasters are ...

5. Atlas Shrugged at 50
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...incing the most ambitious and able industrialists and thinkers in America to abandon their work and go on strike. They do and society collapses leaving a world free for the endeavours of Galt and his ...

6. How every day on strike left civil servants permanently worse-off
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...favour of their revised offer of 9%. The government originally offered 6% triggering the (now) one-month strike. Consider this: for every day on strike, workers will have to work another 40 just to...

7. Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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...erty It is the South African union movement who came up with a unique mechanism for job creation. They strike for jobs. Millions of people across the country march and toi-toi (a peculiar dance-fo...

8. Unions, the leverage of the highly skilled, and the future of work
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...e brand they work for.  If an entire factory hates the conditions of their work and decides to go on strike then that factory will suffer.  A well-organised company simply moves the manufact...

9. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
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...class warriors.  Politicians were preoccupied by the distribution of wealth, not its creation.  Strikes were as crippling as taxes.  Industrial jobs were going to lower-cost countries a...

10. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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... for these services comes down it gets easier and easier to use the new online services. Joost will soon strike deals with news services like CNN and the BBC.  It makes sense for the producers s...