Reduction vs alleviation
IN MY old columns, you will see that I have practically dismissed poverty alleviation as unimportant, compared to poverty reduction which I thought was...
Tech morals
MANY years ago, the government bought a very expensive traffic management technology from Australia, and the word in the street at that time was...
Slaves, 2
WE MAY not have noticed it because it has been going on for so long in so many places, but many of our farmers...
Slaves, 1
BASED on available references, “compelled labor” appears to be the most definition of modern slavery, as we know it today.
“Human trafficking” also appears to...
Labor / capital
I HAVE always thought that drivers who are working under the “boundary” system are more of businessmen rather than employees, but I learned from...
Worker
THE TERM laborer usually denotes “worker”, hence the general understanding is that only the “real” laborers could be considered as “blue collar workers”.
In modern...
Energy
OUR ENERGY supply chain is fragmented into the generation, transmission and distribution components.
As everyone knows, the distribution component in the major cities is handled...
Knowledge and economy, 3
THE SO-CALLED Internet of Things (IOT) is actually a relative term, being relative to the supposed term Internet of People (IOP).
The legal fiction here...
Knowledge and economy, 2
MANY of the original Disk Operating System (DOS) users before were so impressed when the Windows operating system came out, only to realize that...
Knowledge and economy
I HAD NOT imagined that there could be a connection between Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) and Internet of Things (IOT).
Sad to say however, there...