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In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, folks take a government-issued pill whenever they feel less than 100% happy, to keep them in line.
In Albo’s Brave New Australia, he has inverted this paradigm to provide a fiscal incentive to feel sick so that folks can tap a similar government-supplied narcotic to feel better.
I refer, of course, to Ritalin, or methylphenidate, otherwise known to drug dealers as “speed”, “goey”, “whiz”, “uppers”, “ice”, “glass” or “base”.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.