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Tag: Wealth

Harvest and Hunger: Brainstorming the future of the world food system

November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 Ben Harack 1 Comment

Harvest and Hunger The Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation is hosting an event in Saskatoon on November 10th called Harvest and Hunger. The event sets out to answer three questions: Who controls the world’s food? Who has power in the global food system? Who doesn’t? What are people doing – both in Saskatchewan and around […]

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How much would it cost to end extreme poverty in the world?

August 26, 2011August 25, 2011 Ben Harack 51 Comments

Ending extreme poverty in twenty years is very feasible if the developed world delivers on their promises. The United States alone could end world poverty with a fraction of their military budget.

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Story Of Afghanistan That Everyone Should Know

August 24, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

The US sent huge sums of money to support freedom fighters in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union during the 1980’s.

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Wage reduction through inflation

August 23, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Inflation means that a dollar is worth less at the end of a year than at the beginning. Real wages go down when raises are not higher than inflation rates.

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Voted for Koch on the Corporate Hall of Shame

August 21, 2011August 23, 2011 Ben Harack Leave a comment

I voted for Koch Industries in the Corporate Hall of Shame. They push toxic political and economic agendas that hurt the world.

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Critique of Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s video featuring Dan Mitchell

May 29, 2011April 18, 2019 Ben Harack Leave a comment

This piece is a critique of a video featuring Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute created by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Our conclusion is that this video utterly fails to demonstrate the truth of its claims, and instead relies on psychological manipulation to try to ‘win’ the argument in the minds of viewers

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Capitalism’s Labour Transitions – An Argument for Social Welfare

March 7, 2011April 18, 2019 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Capitalist labour transitions are a heavy burden on the working class and society in general, but they are also one of the cornerstones of progress. We can solve this problem in an economically practical as well as morally and socially desirable through the creation of a strong social welfare system.

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Time Perspectives, Global Stability, and a Future Worth Living

January 16, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

How do we end the era of suicide bombers? We must give them a future that is worth living for. Currently we are destroying their futures, leaving them with only their hope of taking a shortcut to heaven.

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Curtis Dorosh: Green living, building, and volunteering

December 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 1 Comment

How to live green? Build green buildings? Put our efforts towards a better future? Curtis Dorosh has spent much of his life trying to answer these questions. Collected here are some of his answers.

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How to argue with trolls and extremists

December 11, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 2 Comments

How to argue against those who will never change their mind, and who will undermine your attempts to discuss things meaningfully. These are our best tips for how to deal with trolls and extremists.

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Demand side management to help build a renewable power grid

December 8, 2010June 10, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Demand side management helps make our power grid more cost-effective and aids in the transition towards renewable energy. It can also be considered as a very green policy on its own, as it reduces the amount of power we need to produce, and thus our impact on the environment.

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Lifestyle brands: Selling people a constructed dream

November 13, 2010February 23, 2016 Kyle Laskowski 6 Comments

Lifestyle brands are designed to create the impression that their product is part of a way of life that is desirable. They do this through connection to people’s employment, ethnicity, religion, class, region, etc. Lifestyle brands are artificially created value design to allow inferior or average products masquerade as superior ones.

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Science denial: Vaccines, vitamins and GMOs

November 2, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Michael Specter delivered a clear and powerful message in his talk at TED in 2010. Vaccines save lives, yet people fear them. GMOs are primarily opposed for reasons unrelated to the method of their construction.

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Jeffrey Sachs on the high price of ignoring poverty

October 28, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 6 Comments

We can end poverty in two decades. HIV/AIDS has reached a steady state in the world. Military spending is 25 times aid spending. We can achieve peace through shared prosperity.

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How the common explanations for poverty are incorrect

October 26, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 6 Comments

The common ideas that purport to explain the fact of poverty are in fact not the primary causal factors of poverty.

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National and cultural issues that contribute to poverty and hamper development

October 23, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 6 Comments

Now we are going to discuss the issues that shape the development of extremely poor nations and cultures.

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What keeps communities locked in the extreme poverty trap?

October 22, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 8 Comments

Extreme poverty is a state of subsistence living in which most, if not all, efforts are directed towards survival. Extreme poverty has many direct consequences. What we are discussing here are the direct feedback effects that tend to cause cycles of deepening poverty on a community level.

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Hans Rosling: Health, wealth, and progress of the world

October 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

While demonstrating the changes on his graphs, Rosling delivers a rapid-fire description of the major political choices and world forces that are driving the change.

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RSA Animate on what motivates us

October 14, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

The first time I saw the RSA Animate video on motivation, I was impressed and fascinated. This was the first video I had ever seen done in this style. I was absolutely transfixed for the whole ten minutes, riveted by the literal ‘illustration’ of ideas. The combination of a well-delivered speech with excellent contextual visual representation blew me away.

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Voluntary and collaborative sustainable development

October 6, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack Leave a comment

We believe that voluntary collaborative efforts towards SD are more effective than personal or involuntary efforts towards SD, and this article is intended to describe the major reasons why.

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