Economics
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The Refusal to measure…
The wannabe king has replaced anyone that disagrees with his vision of how things are, not how things should be, bear in mind that these are very different things. One is something we could prove, the other is a trajectory wish. The reason he does this is he wants to be able to say things… Continue reading
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A Strategy…
It’s just my opinion but…. There’s maybe never been a better incentive for improving the energy efficiency of your domicile, collecting rain water, supporting a party that has green and renewable energy policies and a progressive tax position in their manifesto (the Greens), recycling absolutely everything, supporting energy independence nationally, ending fossil fuel dependency with… Continue reading
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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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