tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post12613703325205262..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: A Sixth Week of Wonderszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-57767441338517663412015-07-25T20:13:15.366+02:002015-07-25T20:13:15.366+02:00You have to like going to work &, when you get...You have to like going to work &, when you get there, you have to like "managing" people, which so often is another way of saying "pissing people off". In other words, you have to be pretty peculiarzmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-73494896992515034972015-07-24T19:42:09.307+02:002015-07-24T19:42:09.307+02:00Re: your final sentence, it's something that h...Re: your final sentence, it's something that has always perplexed me. Whenever I read the profiles of leading business people in the Sunday Times, I never ceased to be horrified by their appalling taste in books, music and films - Jeffrey Archer, Dire Straits and Forrest Gump seem to be recurring favourites. Perhaps these people's absence of intellectual curiosity and apparent lack of self-doubt is the secret of their success.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-48750271842840995602015-07-24T09:32:21.733+02:002015-07-24T09:32:21.733+02:00Your pedagogical style is so polite, George, I alm...Your pedagogical style is so polite, George, I almost think you might believe my erudition is such that I know about the East-Elbian landowners. Thus, once again I go meekly away to self-educatezmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-37807149902116179512015-07-24T01:29:25.838+02:002015-07-24T01:29:25.838+02:00Post pre-war, Romania managed to be not on the los...Post pre-war, Romania managed to be not on the losing side (except, of course, in the matter of longitude), while Austria lost for the second time in a generation. I know nothing about the policies of the occupying governments in Austria; yet I suspect that if they did not engage in reform of land ownership they ensured that the post-occupation government should manage it thoroughly but peaceably. And I wonder whether WW II shouldn't be considered in the quantity of violence.<br /><br />It strikes me that the whole matter is odd, for agriculture as owned by magnates has for generations required high tariffs or subsidies. Think of the Corn Laws in England, or the shifts necessary to keep the East-Elbian landowners solvent before 1932. Or for that matter think of the complicated bills on agriculture that pass the U.S. Congress and leave all but a few in doubt whether anyone makes money raising crops and cattle. Were it not for the social prestige, the landlords of the old Hapsburg Empire would have seen that it was better to sell out to the tenants and put the money into city real estate or industry.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com