Salmon Arm couple urges businesses to put dignity before differences - Kelowna Capital News

The trouble with economists, Isabella Weber believes, is they do not behave like dentists. They obsess over ideological purity and are inflexible when searching for solutions, regardless of society’s symptoms. Dentists have no such pretensions – patients have little patience for dogma when in insufferable pain. John Maynard Keynes, Weber clarifies in the canteen of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study), was the first to draw this dental comparison – and she is running with it. As she sees it, the symptoms could not be more severe. “The status quo for the majority is entirely unbearable,” while extreme inequality and corporate concentration has reached levels “simply incompatible with democracy” worldwide. This is exacerbated by a climate crisis that “generates massive windfall profits” for big business as the “ecological foundations of our lives disintegrate”. All the while the far right is making hay. This analysis echoes much mainstream liberal and left-leaning thinking. But Weber is concerned that her peers in the economic establishment act as if they are oblivious.

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Smashed, stuffed, or dipped, the burger gauntlet has been thrown down with the ChamBURGER challenge. The Salmon Arm Chamber of Commerce initiative, ChamBURGER Month, was grilled up to encourage residents and visitors to “explore local restaurants, enjoy some creative burgers, and support businesses that contribute to our local economy.”