About to start a 2.5 day conference at Vic Uni.
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner lovely. I am getting interested in "folk indicators of economic performance", and this is a good one. My favourite so far is "how long do I have to wait for a visit by a specialist", like a dermatologist or some such.
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
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@Phil_Tanner
That's really insightful -thanks.@GreenChristian to be clear, this is a quote from an ex-Green MP here in Aotearoa NZ, giving a speech at a conference I attended, it's not a quote from me.
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@GreenChristian to be clear, this is a quote from an ex-Green MP here in Aotearoa NZ, giving a speech at a conference I attended, it's not a quote from me.
@Phil_Tanner
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner
"A rich city is not one where the poor have cars, it's one where the rich ride public transit!"I forget who said it -- pretty sure it was some South American statesman with a keen eye.
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner With all of the sub-messages: girls have access to education, and are free to circulate without harassment, ...
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@Phil_Tanner With all of the sub-messages: girls have access to education, and are free to circulate without harassment, ...
@erik indeed
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner This whole thread is fascinating, thank you for sharing!
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner That's a really good metric. I like it.
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner ...distances to the next school...
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About to start a 2.5 day conference at Vic Uni.
Really looking forward to it
️@Phil_Tanner
Thank you for taking us along on this journey and letting us be a part of it.
There’s a lot I haven’t understood (yet?
), but much of it has inspired me and brought me a sense of inner peace, because it feels good to know that my horizons have been broadened.
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner The difference being that I understand what GDP measures (and that in 90% of articles it's a wrongly chosen metric), but I have no idea what your metric says about anything.
In my country:
- access to education: spectacular
- gender equality: about EU average
- road safety: good
- environment: goodStill I haven't met a single girl riding her bike to school during my whole life. And only a small handful of boys, me being one of them (long time ago).
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"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.
It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...
@Phil_Tanner Social safety for girls and those who identify as girls.
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@HeavyMetalWings the concept of the whole conference was about building a fair and just society - not about building a country. So i don't think we're in any disagreement here
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@Phil_Tanner The difference being that I understand what GDP measures (and that in 90% of articles it's a wrongly chosen metric), but I have no idea what your metric says about anything.
In my country:
- access to education: spectacular
- gender equality: about EU average
- road safety: good
- environment: goodStill I haven't met a single girl riding her bike to school during my whole life. And only a small handful of boys, me being one of them (long time ago).
@chrastecky to be clear, it's not "my" metric. This was a quote from a conference i was attending and "live tooting".
But that aside, I'm interested to hear why you think the number of children cycling to school is so low in your country?
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There is no point claiming the purpose of a system is to do what it consistently fails to do. A system is what it does.
The economy is not a law of nature, it is a system designed to keep power concentrated.
The economy is presented as an external force, we need to do X to appease it. It is us and our decisions we make. We designed it, we can redesign it. But the master's tools cannot dismantle the master's house.
@Phil_Tanner the economy is downstream of politics but the financiers and politicians like to pretend the opposite
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