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    Quote Originally Posted by Rothchild View Post
    'JAMS' are not 'the poor' folk who live in the global-south are poor.
    Sorry, Marc. I haven't a clue what that sentence was supposed to mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Sorry, Marc. I haven't a clue what that sentence was supposed to mean?

    Marco.
    JAM = 'Just About Managing' the current government's preferred version of 'hard working families' (or in as Macca put it, the person trying to keep a 10yr old punto on the road')

    'Global-South' - generally a consensus has emerged / is emerging to use this term rather than '3rd world' or 'developing world' as there are issues with both those naming conventions.

    What I'm saying is that Martin's description of someone who struggles to keep a 10yr old punto on the road as being 'poor' is wrong, by a matter of degree, whilst they are relatively poor in a wealthy nation, like the UK, they are rich beyond belief compared to those living in the slums of the global south, who endure absolute poverty (rather than just relative poverty).

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    Ha - love it (and very apt)!

    Thanks for the explanation. That's the problem with using political buzzwords, only those with an interest in such would recognise.. It's all a foreign lingo to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rothchild View Post
    What I'm saying is that Martin's description of someone who struggles to keep a 10yr old punto on the road as being 'poor' is wrong, by a matter of degree, whilst they are relatively poor in a wealthy nation, like the UK, they are rich beyond belief compared to those living in the slums of the global south, who endure absolute poverty (rather than just relative poverty).
    Obviously there was a context to my example of 'poor'. I am aware of absolute poverty. No matter what anyone says there are no easy answers to that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Obviously there was a context to my example of 'poor'. I am aware of absolute poverty. No matter what anyone says there are no easy answers to that.
    Never the less there are answers.

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    I think that greed as a trait can be to a great extent attributed to Freud's nephew Edward Bernhays, the founder of Public Relations.

    His declared aim was to get people to buy things on the basis of 'want' rather than 'need'.

    His psychology was used to persuade people to smoke cigarettes, particularly women, for whom it became a symbol of emancipation.

    Looking at TV ads. it is apparent that depictions of things are usually in very unrealistic contexts, so they seem to me to be using his principles.

    I bet many here have ended up with a desire for a piece of Hi-Fi which has been implanted by images and concepts rather than auditory evaluation, I know that I have, and later regretted my mistake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    I think that greed as a trait can be to a great extent attributed to Freud's nephew Edward Bernhays, the founder of Public Relations.
    I don't think so. Historically, there has been greed as far back as human history extends. Comparatively recently the 'clearances' suffered by the crofters in Scotland two hundred or so years ago, were driven purely by greed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I don't think so. Historically, there has been greed as far back as human history extends. Comparatively recently the 'clearances' suffered by the crofters in Scotland two hundred or so years ago, were driven purely by greed.
    Not to mention the plundering of whole continents and the enslavement and/or murder of millions of their native inhabitants.

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    There has always been greed to a point, but mostly as a means to power, which is the real riches folk seek. (an not the obvious type now)
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    I still think that point valid, but admittedly it applies to consumerism in which we are encouraged to buy loads of crap, rather than the greater tyrannies of the politics of history.

    I agree with you Walpurgis regarding history, but now we do not invade and take over countries as we did in the past; Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, and of course the British Empire.

    What we have now is capitalism, and its use to allow greed by those running large 'empires' to exploit the masses by the means above. This is in some ways worse because it has the appearance of free will laissez faire transactions, when in fact, the most insidious psychology is used to incite purchases.
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