Economics
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Better things
I have a friend that is openly a Marxist, but we haven’t delved into the details of his particular flavour of Marxism, because everyone’s is different. I think that’s because Marx is more of a critical analyst than a person wishing for power for himself. I intend to pencil in the day my friend educates… Continue reading
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What have we already been through?
I got talking with my pal Dave at the weekend, he’s often a source for ideas for my writing by providing a secondary and often contrary perspective to my own sometimes skewed and biased opinions. Everyone that thinks and writes must realise that they themselves do not hold all the answers to all the questions,… Continue reading
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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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