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Regular
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Views on more or less flights from Inverness in 2030 ?
More 23
Less 26
1 fewer flights but more passengers
1 same amount
1 nothing marked
Views on more or less purchases coming from the Highlands in 2030 ?
More 43
Less 7
2 nothing marked
In 2030 would people have paid work for longer or shorter hours
Longer 21
Shorter 26
1 don`t know
4 nothing marked
How did you hear about the event ?
From work 1
word of mouth 12
from school 1
Rowan 1
Through TBI 22 (newsletter or email)
last year 1
newspaper 3
posters or fliers 7
nothing marked 4
There were comments from 19
Complimentary thanks 8
1Need more on culture change and using/expecting less
2Fewer panalists -more debate; keep the event going.
3 We ignore nuclear and GM at our peril-SNP view of renewables is cloud cuckoo land.
4Hope to reduce food miles
5Encouraging to discuss and contemplate future moves.
6Do it again. Make the politicians answer the question .
7Frustrating low level of discussion. But thats normal. But thanks.
8 Get ready-it happens surprisingly soon .
9 Not sure what the value of these questions is ?
10 Possibly produce questions for people to see-flip chart.
11 It costs more to shear a sheep than the sheep farmer can earn from the Wool Marketing Board | |
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Veteran
Posts: 275
| This seems a surprising combination of replies - if people are expecting a more localised economy, I'd have thought they would also expect fewer flights. Also interesting that views were divided about working hours - the trend at the moment seems to be for longer working hours, but it would be nice to think that, in the future, more people would feel comfortable earning less but using the spare time to grow food/ process firewood/ make clothes/ other useful things. | |
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Regular
Posts: 63
| Its interesting that the majority think there will be less flights from Inverness. That's pretty radical. There must be some pretty deep thinking going on out there - and some reevaluation of what life will be like in the future. Might this be worth a press release? | |
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Member
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| >>it would be nice to think that, in the future, more people would feel comfortable earning less but using the spare time to grow food/ process firewood/ make clothes/ other useful things.
But earning less may not mean shorter hours. On my questionnaire response I chose 'more working hours' but added that I thought this would be for less money. As things become more manual again, which I guess is what will happen as oil prices and availability change, then the number of hours we work to make the same income is likely to increase. On the other hand, if oil becomes too expensive to buy for transport, then people may be better off in a way - no longer the treadmill of having to have a highly paid job to buy the expensive car to drive to work to earn the money to buy the car so they can get to work to earn the money to buy the car to drive to . . etc etc
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Regular
Posts: 80
| Let's not forget that the current trend has been toward under-employment, indirect pay cuts if you like. The idea being you retain your work force and the skills investment made in them. So when the economy improves your already to go.
Our current economy is based on all of of us spending every penny we earn on the products and services we are employed to provide. We pay our own wages.
It doesn't matter how much you earn, but what you can afford to buy that money that is important.
If you have no money to buy a new car, how many people does that indirectly affect?
Raw materials, manufacture of parts, production of the car, all the transport involved, car sale, maintenance, spare part, petrol station, etc.
I think is was Henry Ford that said "It's important to pay your works enough to be able to buy your product"
The future should involve less paid work ( a job) and more community work (barn raising), because money, using the current model is not working.
When important things like schools and hospitals are allowed to fail but not banks or car manufactures, then you know something is seriously wrong.
Edited by David Franklin 2011-02-11 03:16
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Feedback from questionaires after Energy crunch question time