Comments on: Pity the Poor Can https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/pity-the-poor-can/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pity-the-poor-can 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: Fernando Gutierrez https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/pity-the-poor-can/#comment-1051 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:19:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2562#comment-1051 In reply to JLM.

Hope you enjoy it. If you don’t, it wasn’t me who recommended it!

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Just ordered it on Amazon One Click. Thanks for the recommendation. Your recommendation alone is enough to inspire me to read it. Thanks.

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]]> By: Fernando Gutierrez https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/pity-the-poor-can/#comment-1049 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:46:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2562#comment-1049 There is something fundamentally wrong with politicians running the economy. They will always work short term, thinking in the next election. And that is ok because that is what they should do, look after themselves first. That is what every human does, it is in our nature.

The problem happens when they convince us that they are not worring about themselves first, that they are worring about the people. The people, grateful, gives them more power because they are so generous that they worry about the people first. And then you have a mess. The only solution is to avoid the concentration of power into short sighted people. It is ok to be short term sighted. It is not ok to be short term sighted and be able to make decissions with long term consecuences.

A couple days ago I finished a quite interesting book about debt which I find quite apropriate for discussion these days: Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order by Philip Coggan (http://j.mp/19YYAgh). Give it a read if you have time.

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