The miserable English novelist Thomas Hardy is credited with teasing out the close connection between comedy and tragedy, writing in a private letter in 1889 that “All comedy, is tragedy, if you only look deep enough into it.” The American humorist Steve Allen popularised the insight as a formula in the 1950s. “Comedy equals tragedy plus time.”
Alas, there are plenty of companies who will snap up a man of Mr Collins moral fibre. Most of them are registered in some Caribbean idyll. Of course, as per PWC's obligations in his contract, he will be richly rewarded for his crimes.
There is, of course, no counterpoint to your conclusion.
But that grinning mug at the top of the piece is trying to pull a John Howard again, and get the middle class (to the extent that it still exists) to hate the poor and immigrant, in the name of dog-whistling up some hard-done-by votes. It's only 27 years, but still most seem to have forgotten how successful that was at turning Australia nasty, the last time around.
Please do not apologize. That this does not arouse more fury flabbergasts me. They are still laughing at us. Collins retires a multi-millionaire after falling on his golden sword.
Your essay, JB, reminds me of this I found a couple of days ago. Created by German film school students in 2009, style of German Expressionism (I think). You can also watch it with Black Sabbath's War Pigs as the sound track, if Metal is in your listening repertoire - but the video says it all.
Pink blush in the western sky as seen from my seat in the sun-room - It's 5.30 pm and the sun goeth down. JB - how clearly you articulate the crimes of the wealthy on behalf of the wealthy. Will PWC not be deregistered - or all their partners forced to pay what should be crippling amounts from their assets since at least 2014 - held in their Cayman Island/other tax-have accounts? As for their clients - the same fate. How can it not be otherwise!
The problem is that the fucking rich do not pay tax.... have to say that's it in a nutshell.
Sorry... What? Can't quite hear you! SHARPENING THE GUILOTINE!
Alas, there are plenty of companies who will snap up a man of Mr Collins moral fibre. Most of them are registered in some Caribbean idyll. Of course, as per PWC's obligations in his contract, he will be richly rewarded for his crimes.
There is, of course, no counterpoint to your conclusion.
But that grinning mug at the top of the piece is trying to pull a John Howard again, and get the middle class (to the extent that it still exists) to hate the poor and immigrant, in the name of dog-whistling up some hard-done-by votes. It's only 27 years, but still most seem to have forgotten how successful that was at turning Australia nasty, the last time around.
Too right. Words of wisdom. I’m sharing with Albanese and Chalmers - time to fix it and tax the rich. Send them all to gaol.
Please do not apologize. That this does not arouse more fury flabbergasts me. They are still laughing at us. Collins retires a multi-millionaire after falling on his golden sword.
Your essay, JB, reminds me of this I found a couple of days ago. Created by German film school students in 2009, style of German Expressionism (I think). You can also watch it with Black Sabbath's War Pigs as the sound track, if Metal is in your listening repertoire - but the video says it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpk7xgCXmOY
Pink blush in the western sky as seen from my seat in the sun-room - It's 5.30 pm and the sun goeth down. JB - how clearly you articulate the crimes of the wealthy on behalf of the wealthy. Will PWC not be deregistered - or all their partners forced to pay what should be crippling amounts from their assets since at least 2014 - held in their Cayman Island/other tax-have accounts? As for their clients - the same fate. How can it not be otherwise!
All the sorrows of the world come back to this
Can't we just harvest kidneys from the wealthy?
Absolutely nailed it. Brilliant.