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- We must demand a referendum to end this madness.
We either do the right thing or suffer in crime and disharmony
DEAR EDITOR,
In the 1990’s the statisticians stopped including people not looking for jobs and part time workers as unemployed. This paradigm shift indicates that globally, political leaders will pay little regard to the marginalized and still have relatively low unemployment rates like Guyana currently has. I’m a mathematician, so I know the power of numbers to sway the populace. This deliberate manipulation of facts needs to be corrected.
Secondly, success in a country must not be measured by GDP (gross domestic product) but by the percentage of the population with disposable income – people who exist above mere survival and can fully express their humanity.
Thirdly, the education system needs to prepare students for the future. The public school system was introduced around 1900 and has barely changed in curriculum or methodology. Technology is the future. Students must be taught using technology, and designing technology must be added from primary school. Failure to add designing technology will make the children obsolete in a modern technology world. Technology must be applied to improve the quality of life of the citizenry, not just to make a few rich on the backs of the many.
Building a just society is difficult, but living in an unjust society like most countries of the world is more difficult. The laws are usually made to benefit the elites in a society because they have a lot of political clout. We either do the right thing or suffer in crime and disharmony. To solve the crime and other social ills, a more inclusive economic and political system must be implemented or else Guyana will go around in circles. You reap what you sow
Yours truly,
Brian Plummer
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