Volume 2, Issue 3
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Around 50% of the population cannot contribute to the production of our goods and services: the young, old, incapacitated and their unpaid carers, as well as a small percentage ‘between jobs’.This is not a fixed group. The people in it constantly change: the young grow up and babies are born. The old and disabled die and their carers get new jobs; others age or become incapacitated, requiring new carers. The unemployed find new paid work, as other people lose their jobs.The group is ‘us’ over time.It goes without saying that the people in […]
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