GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wendell Berry, Thomas Piketty, Bill Mckibben
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What about the 20% (from min. wage to no wage) (henry rempel, retired. Dead money: trillion hidden from taxes; huge amounts of money not being. When and how did this recent phase of astronomical income disparity begin: dead money does not create jobs, emphasis on shareholder value" cut costs to increase profits, and. Should we try: there is very simple divide on charity right side, left side forget the charity. Change the structure so that people don"t need charity. Citizens: your rights and responsibilities as citizens! Why is this important? (p. 88); how is it different from biocentrism: steger"s division of categories doesn"t quite fit, especially when measured against wendell berry, bill mckibben and others. Impact of birth control (jennifer worth: from 80-100 births per month to 4 or. Why: quebec pays families to have more children. Distribution of resources (steger: us is 6% of world"s population but consumes 30-40% of world"s resources).
