Economics
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Cultivate happiness
Toll can write of how we need to be more settled, your therapist can tell you that you’re being destructive, you can realise this yourself, you can buy any number of books on how to change your life, drugs may give you temporary relief, the legal ones can dull your senses, so can alcohol, you Continue reading
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Links in a chain
I’m not going to try to give you, the reader, a business lesson. In this piece we are going to examine a mistake of perception instead. Unfortunately for both of us though, in order to spot the mistake we need to begin by understanding all the individual stopping points along the path between the initial Continue reading
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Street Rangers?
I’m about to make what is called a slippery slope argument. I am aware that this tactic can be rather flawed but I will try to stay away from drawing too much inference from the initial postulate and stick with what is likely in an effort to not appear to be a tinfoil-hat wearing internet Continue reading
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A common thread of focus
A thread of common financial focus runs though the documentaries I am about to write about. As always I have to point out that I do not have all the facts, what is said in this piece is just my thoughts on something that I came to mull after watching these and other documentaries that Continue reading
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Be shit, it works
A shittier service at a higher profit margin, this is what rationalising causes. The economic model serves the vendor/supplier and screws the customer. If you can save 20% of costs, and lose 5% on service then you’ll very likely go for it. The customer has no choice because it is not their choice to make. Continue reading
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The boss’s son effect
A long time ago a co-worker told me “there’s no asshole like the boss’s son”, though I cannot remember now who I am quoting. What he was saying was that the boss made the business what it is now, it’s success is their success. The boss’s children, if they have become involved in the business, Continue reading
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Nothing random
I’m going to have a go at something tough, free will verses determinism.. Some folks think we make choices and decisions, some think we are merely reacting to stimulus and our choices are predictable, as if we would always do the thing we think we are choosing, and some believe that everything is determined because Continue reading
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Facade
“This is what real police men look like, this is what real policemen smell like” – Whitechapel, TV series Soldiers don’t polish boots and iron clothes and clean rifles and paint tanks because they need to go into battle looking good, it is for 2 distinct reasons that this tiresome drudge of never ending attention Continue reading
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Wrongly aimed sympathy
A farming lad or lass, she grows up in the countryside surrounded by nature, the job is hers for life if she wants it and is willing to work hard, the house to live in is free. Her parents will build a bungalow on the land somewhere, no planning permission required just building regs, and Continue reading
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No thanks Nige
William Patterson founded the bank of England in the reign of king William III (him of Orange). A central Bank enables certain financial mechanisms, economists generally agree that having one is a mighty good thang.. Nige, the son of a stock trader, educated at a private school, and himself previously a broker in financial markets, Continue reading
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