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On Objects and Branding
It has been a while since the last post, but here is a thought that needs to be recorded in the cloud by Kevin McCloud (the presenter of “Grand Designs”) on “Objects” When someone gives you or sells you an object they have made [personally], like a pot, or a chair, or a building, there is […]
Posted in: Capitalism, Social Justice
The Six Headwinds to Growth in the USA
October 20, 2012
The world is going to look completely different in the coming years as our economic growth based model shifts down by a couple of gears. Here is a wonderfully written piece from Robert J Gordon: “Is US economic growth over? Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds“. Get ready for GDP of <1% as the United States (and the […]
Posted in: Capitalism, Steady State Economy
The Answers
June 11, 2012
If you are sick of having the obvious shortcommings of “The System” identified and need some answers then this post is for you. If the structure of the existing Capitalistic system does not change rapidly with a good deal of the reformist policies noted below then the only other option is violence towards the elite class, even now the guillotine is being sharpened, […]
The Definitive Simple Living Guide
May 17, 2012
If you’re interested in simplifying your life, this is a great guide (it’s all based on the 2 golden principals of simple living: Identify what’s most important to you by making a list of 4 or 5 priority things, Eliminate everything else), here it is: Evaluate your commitments. Look at everything you’ve got going on in your life. Everything, […]
Posted in: Simple Living
Race to the Bottom
March 23, 2012
One intrinsic problem with our competitive profit driven system: It is a “race to the bottom”. The question that must be asked by the Capitalist is, “how hard can I drive my workers?”, “How much of their life force can I squeeze out of them?”… For the maximum output of labor power. It’s not always that the […]
Posted in: Capitalism, Greed
Take Life Less Seriously
February 25, 2012
Here are a couple of great posts about how to lighten up…. and some inspiration to take a vacation to Carnival. 1) Life has a sense of humour – the world has an astounding way of playing with us. If you take things too seriously this can be very stressful, if you play along and laugh about it […]
Posted in: Simple Living
Simple Living Wisdom – Smile and Do Nothing
February 14, 2012
Smile and do nothing, these two principals provoke simplicity at its best – contentment and serendipity or whatever other advanced words you want to use. You have a lot to be happy about so smile, you smile and you feel happy its a non violent vicious cycle. And while just sitting and do nothing is wonderful, if your a task orientated sort […]
Posted in: Simple Living
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