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Living Wages - The world turned upside down
Sat, 08/10/2013 - 10:04 — admin
- "Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions to forgoe:
- They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in thereat.
- They count it a sin, when poor people come in.
- Hospitality it selfe is drown'd.
- Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down."
- The dialogue on poverty is now where it's a sin for poor people to come in.
- One of the things that imprinted on my teen years was my grandfather telling me about how Conservative governments always create wars to keep down wages.
- Of late, it's been something of a eye opener to discover the broad spectrum of organisations including social enterprises and mutuals who employ staff under zero hours contracts.
- The paradox deepens when we're encouraged to pay attention the the man behind the curtain as a secretive social enterpreneur asks why it's not all that social.
- Ed Miliband jumped the bandwagon, perhaps as part of his borrowed thinking on responsible capitalism
- David Cameron wanted to recapitalise the poor, or at least that was what he said before being elected.
- I'm now gobsmacked to learn that it's a Conservative MP who's championing the call for a living wage
- We've now got billionaires who opine on poverty. Of all opinions however, it's those actually in poverty who have no opportunity to speak.
- The "porter at the gate" stopping poor people coming in today may very well be the social enterprise community and their alliance.with social impact investors. The key words "serial social entrepreneur" will identify the gatekeepers.
- They won't want to know the story of social enterprise in the struggle for a living wage, so this is between me and you.