空: ”statistics are like bikinis”

【現地リポート】アイルランドが超リッチになった理由【町山＆藤谷のアメTube】

アイルランドって今世界で2番目に豊かな国なんですね一番は6000ブルグだからあれは国というより一つのなんていうか町みたいなものだからそれは置いといて実績に世界で一番豊かな国はアイルランドなんですよそれは全世界の多国籍をねアップル

03:17 GoogleねFacebookもう AdobeMicrosoftそういった国の本全部はこのアイルランドに本社を置いてるからなんですよそうなんですかアメリカ企業でそのシリコンバレーに本社あるじゃんと思うじゃないですか Appleとか法律上の本社は全部あれなんじゃあるんですよ ITの大企業はみんな知りませんでした税金安くしてアイランドの人を雇えばここに本社を置いていいっていう風にしちゃったんですよだから全世界のお金特にアップルだとiPhoneの売上っていうのは全部アイルランドに入るんですよ

以前ツイッターでみてこれはネオリベ経済学者の言っていることだけど・・・・大丈夫？みたいなこと書いておいたけど・・・

Why No One Wants To Live in Europe's Richest Country

アイルランドはそんなによくないじゃん？

last year a survey showed that 7 out of 10 Irish people between 18 to 24 are con
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considering permanently leaving the country because they are not happy with the quality of life a big reason is that for a few years now Ireland has been dealing with a notoriously bad housing crisis

Ireland is in many ways a surprisingly badly managed country that's failing at building basic infrastructure and managing key public services for years Ireland has struggled to build roads and energy infrastructure and its National Healthcare System is in a Perpetual crisis as it is constantly massively overcrowded underfunded and its doctors are running away to other
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English-speaking countries

for example it has quite a high average salary but it's not nearly as high as it should be considering its GDP the Irish average salary is lower than in most Scandinavian countries and similar to an average salary in
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countries like Netherlands Belgium or Austria except that the GDP per capita of these countries is barely half that of Ireland and other statistics show a similar Trend the household disposable income which is measuring basically how much money do people actually have at their disposal but Ireland on the 17th Place below the average of the European Union in other words there is a big gap between data showing how wealthy Ireland is and how wealthy the people actually are
the Irish GDP statistics are massively inflated to such an extent that they do not actually reflect reality and that's because Ireland's GDP is driven mostly by global corporations moving their profits to Ireland profits that were not made in Ireland by companies that are not Irish and that are taken out of the country without actually ever entering the Irish economy this has been called
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leprechaun economics

the Magical accounting also hides a lot of flaws in the Irish economy that would be otherwise
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immediately visible and that are well concerning Ireland for example has one of the highest National debts in the world but because a national debt is usually reported in relation to a country's GDP and because Ireland has an insanely High GDP this goes unnoticed

the economists Aaron levinstein once said that statistics are like bikinis what they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is
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vital

　たしかにGDPは高くなったが、平均賃金も家計可処分所得も低い。これは海外の大企業が来てGDPは上がったものの、在アイルランド外資系大企業に務めるアイルランド人は少ないからなんだ、と。さらにインフラは未整備で医療体制も悪い、不動産は高騰しているので、若い人たちの7割が海外に移住したいと思っているんだ、と。

「統計というのはビキニみたいのもので、見えているところは魅力的だが、問題は隠れているところなんだ」と。

　見かけ上のGDPが高いだけなのに大きな借金があってアイルランドやこれからやばいんじゃないか、と。

00:00 look just think about it for a minute almost every everybody spends most of their life living in a totalitarian system it's called having a job when you have a job you're under total control of the of the masters of the enterprise they determine what you wear when you go to the bathroom what you do the very idea of a wage contract is selling yourself into servitude these are private governments they're more totalitarian than governments are but they they can't uh legally murder you or imprison they

00:42 can't legally murder you but they can control everything that you do okay well again the right-wing libertarian argument well you're free to leave at any time yes you're free to starve that's exactly right you have a choice between starving or selling yourself to a tyranny very libertarian the right-wing libertarians whatever they believe are actually deep authoritarians they're calling for subordination to private tyrannies the worst kind of tyrannies

　雇われたら、何を着て、いつトイレに行くなどすべて雇い主の支配下にある。賃金労働というのはそういうもので政府よりも全体主義的だ。自由主義者は辞める自由はある、というが、辞めて飢える自由と暴君雇い主に雇われるかの自由があるだけだ、と。

　賃金奴隷・・・・こういう単純なマルクス主義を若い人がもっと読んだり聞いたりすればいいのに。