Comments on: Jeanette Winterson http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Valerie Anne http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-110242 Valerie Anne Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:54:11 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-110242 This is one great article about capitalism. This is one great article about capitalism.

]]> By: maitresse http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107640 maitresse Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:26:26 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107640 Oh, get off it, Dick. The popular conception that the city traders are rolling in it is just hysterical. If Winterson had any idea how little the average trader actually makes in return for his labor she'd understand the pet theory that Kerviel rigged the whole thing as part of a plot to bring down the system. The farmer and the cowman should be friends. Oh, get off it, Dick. The popular conception that the city traders are rolling in it is just hysterical. If Winterson had any idea how little the average trader actually makes in return for his labor she’d understand the pet theory that Kerviel rigged the whole thing as part of a plot to bring down the system. The farmer and the cowman should be friends.

]]> By: Dick http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107638 Dick Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:05:13 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107638 If bollocks, it's my kind of bollocks. Preferable, in any event, to the special pleading above. If bollocks, it’s my kind of bollocks. Preferable, in any event, to the special pleading above.

]]> By: "Mindles H. Dreck" http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107636 "Mindles H. Dreck" Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:36:44 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107636 It's bollocks, but not because of my love interest. Making Money simply signifies that <i>someone</i> places a high value on their service or they have traded assets well. Much of the time those skills deserve respect. It's extraordinary how one can leap from the simple observation that money isn't everything to a desire to create a penal colony for financiers. Apparently money is more important to Winterson than she'd like to admit. Leave me out of Winterson's post-monetary fantasies. As history has shown, they will be post-growth, post-progress and life will return to being nasty, brutish and short. <strong>jb says</strong>: Much of the time, Mindles, those skills deserve no respect whatsoever. Think about it. It’s bollocks, but not because of my love interest.

Making Money simply signifies that someone places a high value on their service or they have traded assets well. Much of the time those skills deserve respect.

It’s extraordinary how one can leap from the simple observation that money isn’t everything to a desire to create a penal colony for financiers. Apparently money is more important to Winterson than she’d like to admit.

Leave me out of Winterson’s post-monetary fantasies. As history has shown, they will be post-growth, post-progress and life will return to being nasty, brutish and short.

jb says: Much of the time, Mindles, those skills deserve no respect whatsoever. Think about it.

]]> By: maitresse http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107633 maitresse Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:39:21 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107633 I love JW but this article was a load of bollocks. I would be very peeved indeed if my partner were taken from me and placed in a penal colony and forced to cook rice in a dung oven because he has committed the egregious sin of being a trader at a bank (SG, no less!). He's ridiculously good at math and they pay him well to be so. Well, but nowhere near as well as JW imagines he is paid. After French taxes he probably makes less than she does per year. The system may be corrupt, but don't hold the cogs responsible for the designers. I love JW but this article was a load of bollocks. I would be very peeved indeed if my partner were taken from me and placed in a penal colony and forced to cook rice in a dung oven because he has committed the egregious sin of being a trader at a bank (SG, no less!). He’s ridiculously good at math and they pay him well to be so. Well, but nowhere near as well as JW imagines he is paid. After French taxes he probably makes less than she does per year. The system may be corrupt, but don’t hold the cogs responsible for the designers.

]]> By: Jim Murdoch http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107627 Jim Murdoch Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:39:24 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107627 Not that that wasn't interesting but I much preferred young Eleanor's virtual Hell. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Jim. Yeah, the nice touch was Bernard Matthews turkeys. Not that that wasn’t interesting but I much preferred young Eleanor’s virtual Hell.

jb says: Hi Jim. Yeah, the nice touch was Bernard Matthews turkeys.

]]> By: Tommi http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/comment-page-1/#comment-107626 Tommi Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:16:20 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/jeanette-winterson/#comment-107626 Thanks for link. Great article. I recently read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine". Lots of great stuff in there about "capitalism". Thanks for link. Great article. I recently read Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”. Lots of great stuff in there about “capitalism”.

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