I hate to admit it, but I quite like Jamie Oliver.
This talk made me like him more- he shows a great amount of passion for his cause. I like how he identifies issues surrounding food on a similar scale to climate change, and he talks about it as solvable, or fixable (which I think it is). On a similar line to thoughts about climate change he talks about global corporations taking responsibility and answering to old models of business, and changing them.
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Pay matters. How much you earn can determine your lifestyle, where you can afford to live, and your aspirations and status. But to what extent does what we get paid confer ‘worth’? Beyond a narrow notion of productivity, what impact does our work have on the rest of society, and do the financial rewards we receive correspond to this? Do those that get more contribute more to society?
A really interesting report conducted by the NEF (the new economics foundation) about how we value worth/wealth. In the reports heavy social weighting it presents an interesting system of gauging wealth- and offers a potentially great alternative to how we value ourselves; in terms of how much societal value we create as opposed to destroy. Unfortunately I cannot see very much of what is suggested being implemented, but perhaps we can see a shifting attitude in the public- the outrage at bankers taking home huge bonuses, despite not bringing very much societal worth.
Our report tells the story of six different jobs. We have chosen jobs from across the private and public sectors and deliberately chosen ones that illustrate the problem. Three are low paid – a hospital cleaner, a recycling plant worker and a childcare worker. The others are highly paid – a City banker, an advertising executive and a tax accountant. We examined the contributions they make to society, and found that, in this case, it was the lower paid jobs which involved more valuable work.
I thoroughly recommend downloading the report and reading at least some of it.
