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En España nadie hace propuestas democráticas, toda vez que España no es una democracia. Venía siendo una partitocracia (en el Congreso, bastaría con sólo el líder de cada partido con representación, con "puntos", en lugar de escaños, para hacer las votaciones. Lo que pasa es que sería demasiado evidente para el rebaño). En un sistema democrático moderno -la democracia pura no es viable- no podríamos hablar de "transfugas", pues cada diputado sería libre de votar como le parezca, de acuerdo a quienes le han elegido y ante los que debe responder.No obstante, con esta última propuesta de "ahora me pongo yo y luego te dejo a ti" ya sería otra cosa. Es como decir, "macho, con la que se nos viene no seas cabrón, vamos a comérnoslo a medias. Empiezo yo, venga". Algo así como declarar a los cuatro vientos que España (en particular la Soberanía) es suya, su huerto, su pvta. Tal es el nivel de degeneración al que se ha llegado, que ya la supuesta élite puede decirlo sin sonrojarse y la mayoría del personal no siente ninguna extrañeza. Es que están negociando, dirán. Es triste, pero creo que lo único que no se permite hacer ni un sólo líder político es apuntar al pisito/pensiones. Eso sí que no. Lo demás da igual, hace mucho tiempo que los partidos políticos no tienen ningún tipo de ideología.
Millennials didn’t kill the ‘organization man’ after all. Federal data reveals it was the boomers all along(...)No more ‘organization man’The data also makes clear that the archetype of the “company man” who stays in a single job for his entire career was well on the decline by the time baby boomers came of age. To be sure, some of the boomer generation who started working in the late 1970s and early 1980s had this experience of stability. But this was also the decade that ushered in massive de-industrialization, the transition from a goods to a services economy, the decline of unions that had protected workers and encouraged company loyalty, and the mass layoff as a corporate strategy. (One of the strategy’s early proponents, General Electric CEO Jack Welch, eliminated a quarter of the company’s jobs in the first half of the 1980s, Quartz notes.)Against the backdrop of this ever-more-uncertain economy, it’s no wonder that younger generations have tended to switch jobs less and less. The decades of the early 2000s, in which workers stayed put more and more, skewed Americans’ perception of what a “normal” job market looks like, noted Indeed’s Bunker. “We got used to such low levels of quitting and job switching, that [after the pandemic] when it went back to where it was in the year 2000, people got angsty,” he said. Outside of a layoff, job hopping has well-documented benefits for workers. Getting a new job is usually the easiest way to get a raise, with pay for job switchers consistently rising faster than for those who keep the same job, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The young boomers who switched jobs nearly every year at the start of their careers saw annual pay jumps of 6.5%, the BLS found. Pay—the reason most humans work—remains a major motivator today. When consulting firm McKinsey earlier this year asked workers why they took a new job, nearly all groups gave the same No. 1 reason: More pay. “Worker mobility—the ability to find and take another job—is at the core of worker power,” economists at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, wrote last year. Not only that, but higher rates of job-switching are associated with a more productive economy overall, according to a recent working paper issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Over the long term, people moving around and finding the best fit for their career is going to be a good thing for productivity,” said Jesse Wheeler, senior economist at the business intelligence company Morning Consult. “Ultimately we want people doing jobs they like as much as possible and they are good at.”
US and India Launch Renewable Energy Action Group – PV MagOfficials from the US Department of Energy are working with their counterparts in India to enhance collaboration on renewable and emerging energy technologiesOfficials from India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) have set up a Renewable Energy Technology Action Platform with counterparts from the US Department of Energy under their Strategic Clean Energy Partnership to speed up India’s transition to clean energy, according to a report by PV Mag, following talks by US President Joe Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi in late June.RETAP, as the entity is known, aims to enhance collaboration on emerging renewable technologies for deployment and scaling, and will focus on green hydrogen, wind power, long-duration energy storage, plus geothermal, ocean and tidal energy, and other emerging technologies, the report said, adding that officials shared information at a meeting in Delhi on Tuesday about clean energy developments in each country.
Y hablando de Las Élites....
...la mezquindad de la clase política, el hijoputismo reinante
Las Élites, ese constructo narrativo-literario para desviar la responsabilidad individual y colectiva de las sociedades, hacia unos entes etéreos, incorpóreos, que escondidos detrás de una cortina, cual Magos de Oz del Siglo XXI, mueven unos hilos invisibles, que solo ven los iniciados. O Las Élites son todopoderosas, dueñas del destino de todos los pueblos del mundo sin que podamos hacer nada para evitarlo; o las clases medias occidentales somos completamente ineptas, estúpidas e incompetentes que no vemos lo que tenemos delante de nuestros ojos.
Propongo este;Adoptar un baremo institucional, quizás supra-estatal, donde el coste de ocupar una vivienda esté vinculado a una normativa del Estado de bienestar
German business urges help for crisis-hit building industryRising rates, skills shortages and inflation have pushed developers into insolvencyBusiness groups and economists have called on the German government to intervene to help the crisis-hit construction industry, as a wave of insolvencies claims a growing number of high-profile property developers.Builders are facing a perfect storm of rising interest rates, more expensive construction materials, a dire shortage of skilled workers and slowing demand for new developments that has led to financing problems across the industry. “We are at the end of a 10-15 year property boom,” said Moritz Schularick, head of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. “The financial cycle is now such that every day another property developer is going bust . . . The old funding models are no longer sustainable.”A number of developers have filed for insolvency in the past few weeks, among them three Düsseldorf-based firms Gerch, Centrum Group and Development Partner, as well as Euroboden of Munich and Project Immobilien Gruppe of Nuremberg.Meanwhile, big landlords such as Vonovia and Aroundtown have announced big writedowns of their property portfolios.“With interest rates rising so quickly, a lot of projects are just not profitable any more,” said Clemens Fuest, head of the Ifo institute in Munich, a think-tank. “Demand in residential housing has just collapsed.”Some experts think the situation could deteriorate. “With developers that bet on rising prices I expect to see an increasing number of insolvencies in the market,” said Dirk Salewski, head of BFW, the German association of independent real estate and housing companies. “The most highly-indebted are the most vulnerable.”The crisis in the housing sector is a problem for Olaf Scholz, chancellor, who came to office vowing to build 400,000 flats a year. Just 295,300 dwellings were built last year and industry executives expect the numbers for this year and next to be even lower.Ministers have adopted measures to help the sector. At its two-day retreat in Meseberg palace last week, Scholz’s cabinet passed a €7bn package of corporate tax relief that included new rules on the depreciation of investment costs for builders. Building minister Klara Geywitz said they should help “really rev up” housing construction in Germany.But Salewski of BFW called the rule change a “drop in the ocean”.“It doesn’t solve the main problem, which is a lack of liquidity,” said Tim-Oliver Müller, head of HDB, the central federation of the German construction industry.Müller called for more low-interest loans for homebuyers, a relaxation of tough energy-efficiency standards in new buildings and investment allowances for publicly-owned housing associations to help them complete stalled construction projects. He said he hoped Scholz would adopt some of these suggestions at a planned construction summit in the chancellery later this month.Construction, which accounts for 12 per cent of Germany’s gross domestic product and employs nearly 1mn people, is seen as a key pillar of the German economy. But it is stuck in a deep recession.Only 135,200 flats were permitted in the first six months of this year, 27 per cent or 50,600 fewer than in the same period last year. According to Ifo, in July 40.3 per cent of construction companies complained about a shortage of orders. Some 18.9 per cent said projects had been cancelled and 10.5 per cent said they had experienced financial difficulties.Schularick called on the government to intervene in the sector, saying it should usher in a big housing construction programme which would have the added advantage of stimulating Germany’s weak economy.“Private developers are not going to be building any housing in the next couple of years, so the state, the municipalities, the public sector should be going in there and financing construction,” he said, adding that Germany’s many publicly-owned housing associations could be used to drive the programme.“We urgently need new flats, not just as a short-term fiscal stimulus but as a long-to-medium term growth programme,” he said.
Martinsa-Fadesa: la liquidación imposible quince años despuésDesde 2015, cuando se aprueba el plan de liquidación definitivo de Martinsa-Fadesa, la administración concursal pide cada año una prórroga para saldar activos de un grupo que en 2020 perdió 205 millones y todavía debía 3.895 millones de la financiación de la “opa” de Fernando Martín sobre la antigua Fadesa(...) Los casi 4.100 millones de euros de la opa lanzada por Martinsa y su socio Martín Criado sobre la inmobiliaria gallega de Manuel Jove le permitían acceder a una bolsa de suelo de 26 millones de metros cuadrados, activos cuya valoración el propio Fernando Martín situaba entonces en 10.536 millones de euros. Este importe representaba casi cinco veces más que el que se reflejaba en el balance del grupo que rodeaba a Martinsa antes de la adquisición. El pez chico se comía una ballena. La indigestión continúa quince años después del concurso de acreedores que dio la alarma de la crisis del ladrillo.