Tag Archives: The Great Reset

Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first

All employers are in the extraction business, not just those in the ‘resources’ industry. The resource all employers mine is their people  – specifically their ideas, energy and time – ‘just’ the most personal and precious of our resources which define us as human beings. Some workplaces have a culture where this mining is doneContinue reading “Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first”

The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces

Three years on from writing “The Great Reset at Work“, readers will be saddened and shocked to learn the progress or fate of my connections that I mentioned therein, because my greatest concerns did not take long to manifest and in the most tragic ways. I fear that the threat to their psychological safety thatContinue reading “The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces”

The Only Sustainable Strategy For An Authentic Centre Left

If it still exists … The following submission is written in full sincerity to be considered at Per Capita Australia’s “Community” Tax summit as a follow on to a debate I had with Emma Dawson, director of PCA, on LinkedIn on 6 Feb 2025 (my post was removed that evening for reasons and in aContinue reading “The Only Sustainable Strategy For An Authentic Centre Left”

Xcap

Noun. Short for Extreme capitalist. Antonym of woke. Someone with an unshakeable faith in and support for: manipulated markets to transfer wealth from the poor and vulnerable to the wealthy Elite; small government and thus limited to zero social safety nets and social justice programs (such as universal health and DEI initiatives); greed and selfishnessContinue reading “Xcap”

Shrinking Islands Of Prosperity

I wrote the following article a fortnight ago and, as I do sometimes, I sat on it to ponder whether I might just be going ‘too’ far and that I might be seen as ‘extreme’ … and then news of this breaks on 6 December Australian time … Brian Thompson’s killing sparks outrage over stateContinue reading “Shrinking Islands Of Prosperity”

Applying The Unity Bell For Cohesion and Productivity

In “The Unity Bell” I discussed how the forced grading of employees’ work performance into a normal distribution bell curve to reward and punish the few deemed by their managers at either end of the distribution is well known to demoralise the majority thereby worsening productivity instead of improving it. Moreover, I stated that aContinue reading “Applying The Unity Bell For Cohesion and Productivity”

The Great Reset: Investment implications

The investment strategy is the same irrespective of whether our socioeconomic system is now ‘Extreme Capitalism’ or ‘Technofeudalism’ In founding MacroEdgo my intention was that investment analyses and macroeconomics would be major themes of my writing along with general observations on socioeconomic and broader philosophical themes. COVID-19 changed that as investing took a back seatContinue reading “The Great Reset: Investment implications”

Pernicious Envy

“The world is not driven by greed. It is driven by envy”. Charlie Munger, Feb 2022, aged 98, Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway, Chairman Daily Journal Company, Billionaire, Genius. The pandemic-time reflecting that I first foresaw in February and March 2020 and discussed here at MacroEdgo revolves a great deal around envy. Envy has become integralContinue reading “Pernicious Envy”