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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri This past week it appeared that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) aimed to distinguish their actions through the pandemic from those of the wicked. Dr. Lowe’s contrition did not exercise my thoughts, however, in partContinue reading “Guardians Of The Gulf Between Virtuous And Wicked”

In recent decades Australian politicians have been delinquent in their leadership* and this means that the Australian public has been slow to understand the myriad issues surrounding the energy transition even if recent election results show that concern over the climate crisis is growing rapidly.  Perhaps the most critical aspect of the energy transition is thatContinue reading “Australian Gas Asset Ownership Through The Energy Transition”

The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your whole life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life Katsumoto from the motion picture ‘The Last Samurai’​ from Warner Bros I am not the writer who coined the term ‘the Great Resignation’. More significantly, I am the writer who sortContinue reading “The Great Reset Era At Work”

In latter years I have occasionally wondered at how in some ways my life has resembled Forrest Gump’s, though at a lower profile, and I have never bared my rump to a national leader on television. 🙂 I have found myself at the cross-roads of many of the important social trends of our times, andContinue reading “Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates”

Quiet Quitting – An employee doing what they are paid to do to the best of their ability, but doing no more. At its basis this is about a worker setting boundaries to not be exploited by an employer and is thus a rejection of Extreme capitalism that assumes an employee will accept any andContinue reading “Quiet Quitting, Quiet Firing and Loud Quitting: Explainers”

Quiet quitting – the term – is a misnomer.  Most assume that it is about quitting on a job. It is not. It is about quitting, or refusing to participate, in a system that has progressively become unsustainable because it is unfulfilling and unhealthy to those within it. Extreme capitalism is what is being quit!Continue reading “Quiet Quitting”