Below are listed the titles and descriptions of all the Footnote Articles in this chapter. Click on a title to access the Footnote Article of the same title. [Chapter Text]
| 001 | Critical Mass: To Survive in a Global Market, You Have To Start Big |
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| Without enough uranium you can't start a chain reaction. Without enough capital you can't start a business. And the critical mass needed grows with the market. | |
| 002 | DSS Savings Limit Grid-Locks The Poor Into Permanent Poverty |
| The upper limit on savings, imposed on those dependent on state welfare, deprives them of a means by which they could escape their economic inactivity. | |
| 003 | Energy Barrier: Analogy for The Cause of Free Market Exclusion |
| It is the force that favours the status quo. It is the latch on the door to the free market that ensures that all whom misfortune casts out, become locked out. | |
| 004 | High Cost of Marketing Relegates Most Good Products To Oblivion |
| Developing what technically may be the perfect product is fine. But if you don't have the money to market your perfect product it'll never see the light of day. | |
| 005 | Instruments of Acquisition by Which The Favoured Few Grow Rich |
| All of us were born on this planet. But most of us own none of it. Ownership of the Earth is a privilege of a few, which is naively upheld by a stupid majority.
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| 006 | Living on Benefit: My Struggle with The DSS Savings Limit Penalty |
| Commentary on my accounts for 1991 to 2001 during the debilitating Thatcher-Major era when it cost the unemployed more to save money than the rich to borrow it. | |
| 007 | Lost Inheritance: Chapter 06: Poverty Sticks: Blaming Society |
| Blaming yourself for your predicament is easy. Nobody will condemn you for that. But blaming society takes courage, for it will provoke the indignation of all. | |
| 008 | Means of Exchange: The Nebulous Nature of The Value of Money |
| People see the value of money as absolute: a fixed frame against which anything can be valued. But perception is relative including that of the value of money. | |
| 009 | Poverty: Resulting Social Isolation Erodes One's Ability To Reconnect |
| The severe poverty, to which state welfare subjects the unemployed, forcibly isolates them from the very society to which they are accused of not contributing. | |
| 010 | Short Wave Broadcasting as an Analogy for Free Market Competition |
| The short wave bands are a cacophony of competing signals from all over the world. Only the powerful stations of the rich nations can be heard above the noise. |