Soc News – What would you do with £45.5 billion?

NB – I’m moving most of the material on here to my new site – ReviseSociology.com – check it out for everything related to AS and A level Sociology

The £45.5 Billion Dollar Question: what would you invest in?

OK you won’t exactly be able to make it, but here’s a link to an interesting event to be hosted by the World Developmen Movement in Glasgow –

What would you do with £45.5 billion? It’s a lot of money – not far off the GDP of Iraq. £45.5 billion is the amount of taxpayers’ money that the UK Government has given to one single British bank to bail them out. That bank is RBS. And RBS is investing that money in projects that are wrecking the climate and abusing human rights. But imagine what else could be done with £45.5 billion. This interactive event will set you thinking about the power of money and how it can be used to make the world a better, or worse, place.

See http://www.wdm.org.uk/events/wdm-scotland-autumn-events

Marxist commentators would probably call these type of activities for being ‘Utopian’ personally I think think Utopian thought is a useful critical tool

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *