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Crisp/incisive and excellent–
Thanks
Prof R.Vaidyanathan
Hmmm.
Not bad at all.
Yes, I agree. Nothing new for me in that I spent 15 years alongside the construction industry worldwide and the UK’s was the most under-resourced, but the 4%/75% comparison was shocking.
One slight quibble which I would like to turn into a positive suggestion, Richard, i.e. “at the
heart” should be rephrased as “in the bowels” as the first circulates life-giving blood while the second evacuates filthy lucre.
I still think financialisation is cruel – so much so I’d pin its origins in evolutionary intellect. Dead bodies and smouldering village remains in the Kivus after the ‘blessing’ of a Coltan find sort of stuff – the horrors of Red Rubber – half-a-million women trafficked in the first 6 months of the fall of the USSR. Centuries of slaving white Europe referred to as the ‘harvesting of the Steppe’. These vile practices were more profitable than farming, building and so on.