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1 May 2012
Workers Day, well, besides enjoying a day off, it provoked some thought too.
Among the confusion in press and news, where the “don’t knowers” are getting more than their fair share of print column space and airtime these days, I would like to add to that space and raise some thoughts:
Point 1:
“Spreading across the Atlantic from Europe is an anti-risk culture,” says Niall Ferguson — the historian and prolific author who holds posts at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford.
This “anti-risk culture” makes itself felt in two ways, he says in a Barron’s interview. “One is the welfare state, designed to remove risk from your life by guaranteeing you an income from the cradle to the grave.”
“That’s great because it means that nobody is starving in the streets for want of work. But it isn’t great if you create poverty traps and disincentives, so that people in the bottom quintile never work, which is the case in much of Europe.”







