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Work (1) [Written in memory of Sayagyi Dr. Thein Aung (Lecturer, Institute of Economics)]

 Defining "work" is actually very simple. Work is simply "work." Yet, despite its simplicity, many people—from state leaders to those idly chatting at roadside tea shops—get confused and go around in circles asking, "What is work?" About 50 years ago, people thought working meant taking off your shirt and sweating profusely. However, in this modern era, work is defined by "Job done" (successful completion). That is why concepts like "Work from Home" have emerged. I witnessed something strange in Myanmar, where I used to live, about 20 years ago. It was a signboard raising ceremony at a factory owned by the Ministry of Industry (1). The text on the signboard read: "Double the Productivity." It was a massive signboard. The person coming to inaugurate it was Secretary-1 (equivalent to a Prime Minister in today’s terms). For a whole month prior to the opening ceremony, the factory was busy: young female staff practiced pom-pom dan...

အလုပ် ( 1 )

အလုပ် ( 1 ) [ ဆရာကြီး ဒေါက်တာသိန်းအောင် (စီးပွားရေးတက္ကသိုလ် ကထိက) အား အမှတ်ရလို့ ရေးပါသည် ] အလုပ်ဆိုတာ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ရတာ အရမ်းရိုးရှင်းပါတယ်။ အလုပ်ဆိုတာ "အလုပ်" ပါပဲ။ ဒီလောက် ရိုးရှင်းတာကိုမှ "အလုပ်ဆိုတာ ဘာလဲ" ဆိုပြီး တိုင်ပတ်နေကြသူတွေ များတယ်။ တိုင်းပြည်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဆိုသူကနေ လမ်းဘေးလက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင်ထိုင် လေကန်နေသူများ အထိပါပဲ။ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ နှစ် ၅၀ ခန့်က အလုပ်ဆိုတာကို အင်္ကျီချွတ်၊ ချွေးတွေထွက်အောင် လုပ်နေမှ အလုပ်လုပ်တယ်လို့ ထင်ခဲ့ကြပေမယ့်၊ ယနေ့ခေတ်မှာတော့ အလုပ်ဆိုတာ "Job done" (ပြီးမြောက်အောင်မြင်ခြင်း) ကိုပဲ ကြည့်ပါတော့တယ်။ ဒါကြောင့်လည်း Work from Home တွေ ပေါ်လာတာပေါ့။ ကျွန်တော်နေခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ လွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ အနှစ် ၂၀ ခန့်က ထူးဆန်းတာတစ်ခု မြင်ဖူးတယ်။ အမှတ် (၁) စက်မှုဝန်ကြီးဌာနပိုင် စက်ရုံတစ်ခုမှာ ဆိုင်းဘုတ်တင်ပွဲ လုပ်တာပါ။ ဆိုင်းဘုတ်မှာ ဘာရေးထားလဲဆိုတော့ "လုပ်အားနှစ်ဆ တိုးမြှင့်ကြ" တဲ့။ အတော်ကြီးတဲ့ ဆိုင်းဘုတ်ပါ။ လာဖွင့်မှာကလည်း နိုင်ငံတော် အတွင်းရေးမှူး (၁) (ယနေ့အခေါ် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဆိုပါတော့)။ ဖွင့်ပွဲမတိုင်မီ ၁ လကြိုတင်ပြီး စက်ရုံဝန်ထမ်းတွေထ...

Democrats and Republicans Be Held Accountable if They Fail to Address the Debt Issue Now?

Yes, if both the Democratic and Republican parties fail to cooperate and resolve the current debt ceiling issue, leading the U.S. government to "default" (fail to pay its debts), they could indeed be considered historical culprits. Here's why: Political Brinkmanship In debt ceiling crises, both parties often push the situation to the brink to gain political leverage. Republicans typically demand cuts to government spending, while Democrats strive to maintain or increase funding for social programs and other expenditures. These differing stances often lead to difficult and prolonged negotiations. If both parties prioritize their political interests over the nation's economic stability, ultimately leading to a default, they would undoubtedly face public outcry and historical condemnation. Severe Economic Consequences A U.S. government default is not merely a political problem; it's a major economic catastrophe that could shake the global economy.  * Glob...

It's American's Economic are Driving by Capitalism?

Several years after living in America, I reflect on my youth in Burma, where I learned socialist ideals, Socialists are criticizing capitalism’s selfishness. In Myanmar, we valued social equity and collective support, but I found socialism’s vision often failed in practice. Surprisingly, I discovered that many of these ideals thrive in the U.S. Here’s what I’ve learned: The United States has never been purely capitalist or "laissez-faire." From its founding, the U.S. Constitution enabled a mixed economy by empowering the government to regulate commerce, issue currency, and promote general welfare. Over time, especially during the Progressive Era and the New Deal post-Great Depression, government involvement grew through: Regulation : Breaking monopolies, protecting workers, consumers, and the environment. Social Safety Nets : Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment benefits. Public Goods : Education, infrastructure, defense, and postal services. Econ...