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Avoiding the dis-empowerment traps

Guest post by: Ian Berry

Article Overview: Stupidity and idiocy are the great dis-empowerment traps. Ensure you don't get caught in either in 2012.

Avoiding the dis-empowerment traps

I think this is priceless:

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credit, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism. " (Das Kapital, 1867)

My thanks to colleagues Paul Lange who tweeted about this and Ann Andrews who unearthed this quote.

Reminds me of a sign I saw on a office wall a decade ago.

"Someone said that the definition of stupidity is:

Expecting a different result by continuing to do the same old thing.

Someone else sadi that the definition of idiocy is:

Doing something different and still getting the same result"

Stupidity and idiocy are the great dis-empowerment traps.

Ensure you don't get caught in either in 2012.

Ian

No BS differencemaker

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