Telstra sale good news

Telstra sale good news: analysts (17-08-2005):

"'Australia's primary concern is, and should remain, that the telecommunications industry maintains its competitive nature, and we are still a long way from any clarity about how that will be achieved once Telstra is fully privatised,' she said."

I love how people see financial gain for some as "inevitable". Yes, privatisation of a successful company will create a lovely nest egg for some and again, we at the other end of the line, will be paying for it as we are for petrol. As the voters and citizens we are contributing extremely well to those who hold the shares in these companies and play the markets. Telstra is about share holders. Softening the blow with stuff about the country services is only to get it privatised and making an income stream for the shareholders. In that sense it is inevitable because we constantly click over to the dollar and constantly forget people are far more important than money. I am getting tired of a world which just keeps looking at profit and overlooking safety, relationships, service, loyalty, dependability, ownership, belonging, knowledge. Who cares what belongs to whom as long as someone is getting rich out of it? If it costs people more and the service is not quite right, bad luck. The thing is, people can be used to generate profit and as such are replaceable and expendable because you can make more people . They're pretty cheap in that sense, so a world revolving around profit is only playing lipservice to people. People. Not individuals. A world which values individuals will know each person is unique and not replaceable. There was only one Gandhi. One Jacques Cousteau. One Mother Theresa. One Sylvia Pankhurst.