What Price Life? Why is everything so expensive? Is the new book by Robert Sudha Hamilton. 350 pages PDF version
Putting on his economist hat to do justice to explaining the prevailing headwinds we all face in the current climate. It appears that living is becoming prohibitively expensive and this is not happening by accident. There are sections of our population who are hell bent on stealing your lunch or at least making it too bloody pricey. We are supposed to be living in a democracy but it is actually a 2 speed economy. Many of us are getting left behind, when it comes to the wealth stakes. What can we do about it?
Why Is Everything So Expensive?
A little thing called the profit motive has moved into every neighbourhood. Under the guise of an economic theory entitled neoliberalism what used to be owned by the citizenry is now in private hands. Roads, parking places, airports, hospitals, schools, telecommunication infrastructure, digital networks, energy providers, utilities, airlines, banks and more are now all run to make ever greater profits. Shareholders are king and workers and consumers are well down the list of their priorities. We are all getting shafted so that a few can get filthy rich at our expense. Profitability should not be the driving force for everything on planet earth.
How Come Stuff Costs A Lot Now?
What Price Life? Why is everything so expensive? This book explains some of the main causes driving the bus. If we continue to blithely let ourselves be pushed around by big companies and billionaires we are all going to end up in the dog house. Our politicians are less than useless, as they are operating out of yesterday’s perspective.
“Many people are wondering this. Why is everything so expensive now? The answer is because of American capitalism and how it has manipulated things to achieve extreme wealth for its investors. There is more than US$100 trillion under asset management and this includes a great deal of infrastructure that we all use in our daily lives.
350 pages PDF version
What Price Life? Why is everything so expensive? Is the new book by Robert Sudha Hamilton
