| From: | Rori Steel cullyn@*****.com.au |
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| Subject: | the value of education (was: Thoughts: Sourcebook Ideas) |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:22:28 +0000 (GMT) |
>Robert Menard writes:
>> Where the hell do you live that corporations fund PUBLIC
>> schooling? The
>> government does a bad enough job of it.
>
>If a corp is the major employer in an area, it could find it very beneficial
>to fund public education to improve the quality of new employees. It is far
>cheaper to teach a nine year old something than a thirty-year old who hasn't
>been in education for fifteen to twenty years. I'm not thinking of 100%
>funding, but certainly assistance. Obviously, this would only happen in
>areas where the corp plans to stay for a long time.
>
>In addition, corps might do it as a tax dodge.
This is where you have the truth of it! And it is happening in
Australia already... the SR Timeline may not be totally correct time
wise, but its got a fair bit of the 'facts' right.
The Australian Government is currently trying to get some of their new
ideas through parliment. These ideas intail big corperations who want
tax let offs to 'sponsor' mental health places, dissabled kids and the
like. It really makes you shudder. If you read SR and think.. 'nah..
this will never happen' think again. Check this out.
It is already accepted that the government is loosing power compared
to the big corps. Now it is openly (is .au at least) asking for
assistance and giving the Corps what they want in return. They get
more power over the masses (sure it aint much atm) and the ability to
use the "You can overlook what we did *here* cant you.. we did give
2bil dollars this year to mentally handicapped kids.. we can very
easily pull our funding if you dont back off" ploy.
The governemts will slowly ask more and more from Corps, and the Corps
will use it to get more power with both the masses and the government.
First its mental health, then unemployed and pensions, then schools,
then roads, then elec and the whole thing goes the way of the
Corperation very easily.
</steps off soapbox>
Ok. This isnt written in concrete (or plascrete ;) but it could very
easily be a way our society does travel through the next few decades.
I am still at my wits end as to whether i should be happy, or waving a
flag. Ahh hell.. it'll probably happen slow enough that the average
pleb doesnt even notice it.
Will we follow the SR timeline in as far as non-magical events? What
parts do you think wont happen, and those that already have? Im
interested to see other points of view, on whether or not we are
heading for a Shadowrun type government/corp structure.
All comments can be directed to the ML, but we should try to keep
on-topic. WEll.. i did say try ;>
Cullyn
cullyn@*****.com.au
