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Moreover, if a wealthy person does have a particularly strong work ethic, it is likely attributable not just to their genetic predisposition, but also to their upbringing, including whatever privileges, values, and opportunities their background may have afforded them.
It is not as though they were angling for lifetime White House cafeteria privileges, or that having said “yes” to George W. Bush will open any doors for them in the future.
But Trump sees US hegemony as a burden, and seems oblivious to the
privileges
that it affords, not least the many benefits associated with controlling the world’s main reserve currency.
The state also
privileges
some businesses and chokes others through its control of access to the market.
While China and the US battle it out, each trying to retain its own “exorbitant privilege,” Europe seems to be stuck in the middle, suffering from the same disadvantages of the US position, but enjoying none of its
privileges.
We also need a more effective system of social security: after all, 100 million Russians are nowadays entitled to various privileges, and far from all of them are poor.
7.Non-democratic countries cannot count on the same rights and
privileges
in the international economic order as democracies.
Publicly, each claims legitimacy by offering to the wider society dynamic programs of modernization, liberalization and competent economic management; privately they promise their friends that they will promote sectoral interests and preserve social
privileges.
Over the years, corruption has become endemic in China, with regional party leaders and bosses in state-owned enterprises wielding their vast
privileges
and authority to accumulate personal wealth.
Because reform threatens their privileges, it must be resisted.
Instead of innovating or improving productivity, private actors try to beat their market competitors by pursuing special
privileges.
Indeed, equating financial liberalization with
privileges
for cities designated as “financial centers” undermines the very goals of liberalization – namely, to reduce government control and to accelerate the development of financial markets.
It would strongly influence the constitutional drafting process in order to enshrine its
privileges.
Yet many of Trump’s policies – not least slashing taxes for the rich – are intended to perpetuate the
privileges
of the economic elite.
A century earlier, Henry I, by issuing a Coronation Charter, had indicated that he would be more respectful of the nobles’
privileges
than was his predecessor.
Nativist movements that insist on the special
privileges
of blood and soil have invariably been bad for minorities, especially Jews, leading to the kind of violence that drove Miller’s great-grandparents out of their country.
India responded to Pakistan’s gesture by supporting its bid for membership of the United Nation’s Security Council, and by withdrawing its objections to the European Union’s grant of special
privileges
to Pakistani textile exporters.
SOEs were determined to defend their
privileges.
For centuries, sovereign states have regulated their relations – from ending wars and demarcating borders to establishing diplomatic
privileges
and conducting trade – with treaties.
However, as Malaysia engages with the global economy, these
privileges
may eventually be removed in order to heighten the country’s competitiveness.
Another source of fiscal and economic distortion comes from the semi-official merchants, or bazaaris, whose businesses account for 10% of GDP, and who enjoy, together with various bureaucrats, special
privileges
such as access to hard currencies at special rates.
Thus, domestic corporate lobbying often leads to something akin to regulatory capture, whereby the government
privileges
national corporate interests.
Even worse, the banking sector is trying to take advantage of publicly financed rescue packages to protect its privileges, including immorally huge bonuses and extravagant freedoms to create speculative financial assets with no links to the real economy.
But fast liberal reforms, which society did not understand and support, coupled with a basically intact system of social
privileges
and guarantees, quickly incited conflict between the liberal aspirations of the executive power and the paternalistic moods of the legislature.
The next revolution will not abolish the consequences of place of birth, but the
privileges
of nationhood will be tempered.
Such targeted sanctions would affect the power and
privileges
of the key players in this crisis.
Protesters vividly express widespread frustration with deepening inequality, and condemnation of
privileges
of a global financial elite comes uncomfortably close to implicating government.
Although Italian employers have dismissed the proposed employment-law reform as far too modest, Monti’s government has retreated in the face of trade-union opposition and protests from assorted interest groups (like taxi drivers) eager to defend their
privileges.
He also gave the institution many
privileges
and authorities, no less than that which existed under the Byzantine emperors.
According to Brill, this is an upshot of America’s meritocracy: the best and brightest had the chance to climb to the top, but then essentially pulled the ladder up behind them, as they captured democratic institutions and used them to entrench special
privileges
for themselves.
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