Had a read of the paperback version (much more expensive) from bookdepository. Great read.
Probably every Aussie, especially those not playing the Game, would be better off knowing about the Game described in this book.
Just realized you don't need a kindle device to read books with its Free App.
US link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y1WF2BC/
Weird, it shows as $us1.04, then $us7.13 after logging in
Anyway ABC RN’s The Money did a show on this a few years ago. Quite interesting
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/themoney/austr…
Has anyone actually managed to buy it for the price listed on this bargain?
I can't buy it on Amazon AU and like supa said, the price jumps to $7 when you're forced to the US
For me the link goes to the au site kindle addition and displays $1.49 aud
That’s Amazons algorithmic pricing at work. It knows you and applies a different price. It’s crazy
Cheers OP. Required reading.
People didn't already know the world works this way?
I'd love to live in that ignorance.
So. Peaceful
Most people are voting Liberal or Labor as they lose their own wealth.
So no, they are brainwashed morons.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-26/frijters-foster-battl…
Holy shit!
I’m buying the book…
Unfortunately many don't know the exact way of Game in Australia, as far as I can tell. Similarly many still don't know ozbargain is the website to go every now and then :)
The question is: what will the Aussies do about it?
Why are they not changing it?
The trouble is Government has become too big. It means there are endless opportunities for mates in big corporations and big union.
But hey, most people want the government to wipe their bum, and most importantly, free stuff. OPM pays for it. And there are heaps of Other People, eh?
I'm not sure this holds water but I might be naive (also haven't read the book).
My experiences have generally been that government is almost comically careful about being non-biased whereas private companies are horribly wasteful and corrupt to no end. Even if it's illegal, they'll do it if they think it's profitable.
Big union isn't the problem. They're not handing out jobs to people, it's mostly volunteers. The people who are being paid by the unions are making a lot less than they could be anywhere else. They're spending their time trying to get a better deal for the workers AGAINST big corporations and the government handing out favours for mates.
You poor young innocent. The amalgamated super unions are corporations in all but name, hardly any senior staff are from the shop floor, mostly graduates of student union politics with the correct factional allegiance. Perhaps you could look at them as a kind of employment agency. The union bosses have more in common with the corporate chiefs than the workers. They will do a deal with the corporates to further their careers and bugger the workers. Their ambition is either a safe ALP seat or eventual superfund directorship. The uni graduates take lower pay until they get their reward from their ‘mates’. The Australian way.
@entropysbane: If the business "leaders" weren't a bunch of corrupt sociopaths, who work harder to crush workers than to respect & appreciate them, there never would have been a union in the first place. There are always bad apples, but I disagree completely on the broad-brush theory you apply.
@entropysbane: Yeah nah I don't think you know what you're talking about. The union 'corporates' are not the union. The members are. The members vote. The members work. The members take action.
My experience in unions has been nothing like what you described.
@[Deactivated]: I think you dont know what unions have done and do and without them where we would be right now….
@lonewolf: Old style, traditional unions are nothing like these amalgamated monstrosities.
The old ones strove to make life better for the guy on the shop floor. Union’s leadership came from the shop floor. Leadership knew what it as like to be a worker.
The modern ones are all about their political mates. The game is all. They engage in enterprise bargaining and dud the workers to further their own ambitions..
hear hear, the trappings of centralised power - we could do without the monolithic, parasitic, nanny-turning-police state that can only claim to act in anybody's interest other than their own.
This has been on my list for ages, I've been hoping that an audiobook would come out but might have to suck it up and actually read :(
Are you me? :)
You can try converting to ePub using Calbre and then use this app.
Or you could obtain the PDF of their original research paper via a university login or SciHub and then convert to ePub to read using the above app.
It would be pretty dry as an audiobook. It's dry enough to read.
Worth the effort though - some great content, and all voters need to understand how the game works.
BTW this book doesn't do the Liberal vs Labor thing; it's an expose of the ways politicians and power-brokers keep themselves in positions of influence and how they hand out favours to maintain their position and feather their own nests. Lots of real-world examples of "legal" corruption in relatively recent history.
The NBN is a great example of those at the top looking after their mates.
It showing $9.35. Has the deal finished?
The James is strong with the author.
- Bruce.
Those who want more like this, ABC RN has a new podcast
“Who Runs This Place”. Which has more on the subject, Including interviews with some of the former players.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/who-runs-this-…
Great book!