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Nov 2016: I’m worried about your future: Trump in the Whitehouse, Farage causing chaos and Le Pen waiting in the wings. Is history set to repeat itself?
May 2018: Has the situation improved?
Like the 1910s there is record inequality. Like the 1930s we are emerging, if you can call it that, from a huge recession. It’s obvious that traditional left and right answers aren’t working in this modern age. In the UK we've had 12 years of Labour Government as the filling inside two thick Conservative slices and what has it brought?: a disenfranchised and robbed youth, unaffordable housing, no hope for many and yet a quarter of the nation have never had it so good. Mainstream politicians are panicking; of course they are, they don’t know what to do. And now we see a future with robotics taking away jobs, and what about the leisure economy we were promised since the 1970s? What's the point of leisure without money (and purpose)?
You will find the foundation for a fairer economy and one that puts wealth creation with social and natural justice as its cornerstones. Build your answers on these principles and we can wrest our country away from a dark future.
.................Some basics................
1) The elephants of austerity: in which we learn the reasons why some economies are pretty sluggish and see a basis for some wealth redistribution and behaviour change taxation.
2) Good growth, bad growth: in which we discover that some innovative activity needs to be nurtured and other ventures which also get tax breaks need to be halted; its about rebalancing the economy.
3 & 4) Blessed are the meek for they are the wealth creators: in which we discover that valuing nature and human activities we unlock the true wealth in our country. Split into part one and part two.
After these "classes", you are equipped to argue for some wealth redistribution, some taxes on pollutants and products that do harm. For cutting tax relief on some types of business start-up and innovation and can generalise this to all tax breaks. You can also see the foundation of wealth creation and understand the difference between profit (earnings) and wealth.
5) Applying @SageAndOnion Economics - includes food, wages, industrial strategy and now housing ... that one took some time!
Over the coming weeks and months more modules will be posted and announced via twitter @SageAndOnion. Feel free to tweet me links to any short pieces based on this and how it relates to your own expertise and I will post the best.
So follow @SageAndOnion for updates. There are no exams unless you ask for one, perhaps the best exam is how you vote at the next election, this is just to help you collect your thoughts and perhaps save the world a little while you are at it!
Clive Stevens 20th November 2016
Updated May 14th 2018
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