10-05-2010, 02:36 PM
(10-05-2010, 01:57 PM)Ali Quadir Wrote: Yes. Symbolic politics, give people the idea they can get ahead and they'll run the treadmill so much harder. I see it in my friends. A close one, a really nice guy, who joined a major international with dreams of making it to the top is working 60 hour weeks, he doesn't make more money than I do.. The difference is they hold promotion before his eyes. And you ain't gettin' it if you don't excel... If you do excel there's just a tiny chance of moving up.. He's got good university grades too, but it's not actually buying him much.. He makes less than a self employed plumber would. That is if the plumber can work 60 hour weeks. Which they can but burnout is very real there.
leave that aside, my classmates have 'got to the top', getting into 10 top people in various global megacorporations, this and that, with grand figures as salaries and proably stocks, options.
what happened in the end ? they are basically now just henchmen, who has been allowed to sniff some out of the huge stash. their fate still hangs in their overlords' hands.
even when you supposedly achieve the thing the system advertises, its nowhere near being an equal with the power-holding.
Quote:In those politics I agree they're different. But I was referring to broken promises....
I have a colleague who actually fled that country though. The trouble there isn't that the government is intrinsically bad, it's just very corrupt.
Well, that colleague of mine would disagree. There's more to living in a country than having a democratically chosen leader. As I said, a lot of broken promises...
broken promises also hang around the reach a leader can afford. as i learned, he was intending to do MUCH more, yet, the intervention of usa, and the stirrings of the elite that lost the power had prevented a lot of these, and he had to - for now at least - settle with a mixed market economy, albeit much more equalized for the masses. the coup attempt against him showed how far those external sources could go.
in regard to corruption .... leave aside corruption being anywhere, due to their elitist, post-colonial governments, corruption in south american countries is beyond scale, from what i understand. chaves has been trying to handle the corruption and laggardness in police force, by instigating various measures and incentives to make them actually work and not get bribed. they say he has been successful in reducing crime.
Quote:And that's the bottom line, if Venezuela could get it's act together it could end up being the new Sweden. But they're not there yet. Partly because the elected are basically all the same.
venezuela doesnt enjoy the position of being a remote, uninteresting place for international private interests. therefore anything that has been done there, has been harder ...