bit long but so very true
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Teaching Maths In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit? -
Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit? -
Teaching Maths In 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80.
How much was his profit? -
Teaching Maths In 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20. -
Teaching Maths In 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and
inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the preservation
of our woodlands.
Your assignment: Discuss how might the birds and squirrels feel as the
logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20. -
Teaching Maths In 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be
offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the felling
licence. He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health &
Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut something. He
has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident however he does not
have the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be
a recividest and habitual criminal. His DNA is sampled and his details
circulated throughout all government agencies. He protests and is taken to
court and fined another £100 because he is such an easy target.
When he is released he returns to find Gypsies have cut down half his wood
to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is arrested,
prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further
£100. While he is in jail the Gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell
it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of
squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tonnes of rubbish
and asbestos sheeting. The forester on release is warned that failure to
clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He
complains and is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace
and invoiced £12000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated
government contractor.
Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be arrested
and fined before he realises that he is never going to make £20 profit by
hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for the rest
of his life?
- Teaching Maths In 2010
A logger doesn´t sell a lorry load of timber because he can´t get a loan to
buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money on a
derivative of securitised debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama
and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay a few million
pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the biggest
losses.
The logger stuggles to pay the £1200 road tax on his old lorry however, as
it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions regulations and
he is forced to scrap it.
Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it back
on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash
back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives.
If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport them at the
governments expense. Following their holiday back home they return to the
UKwith different names and fresh girls and start again. The logger protests,
is accused of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of his
old lorry he is forced to pay £1500 registration fees as a gang master.
The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonus’s are
not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the
difference on expenses and allowances.
You do the maths.
(Italy! The land of the laid back, happy people)
