tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post4695005698731838107..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Book Discussion on Confronting Capitalism: Professor Philip Kotler [Video]mike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-26353826728670687682016-08-27T05:30:57.497-04:002016-08-27T05:30:57.497-04:00«Being happy at work is important, says Philip Kot...«Being happy at work is important, says Philip Kotler, as well as having sufficient leisure time.»<br /><br />The problem here is who should be «happy at work», who "deserves" that happiness, and leisure time.<br /><br />What so many don't realize is that 30-35 years of neoliberalism have made a lot of people happier: managers, executives, finance speculators, house owners, who can also often retire quite early and enjoy a lot of leisure time in comfort or luxury.<br /><br />In particular consider house owners in "prime" locations like the UK's south east: they have enjoyed very much 100% per year profits on cash invested, effort-free and usually tax-free, by "working hard" every day at waiting for the government to push up prices and rents.<br /><br />All those people are fully persuaded that it is *their* happiness that matters, not that of "looters and moochers"/"scroungers" like low-wage employees and servants.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com