In the meantime silver and gold, the raw materials of money, get no more respect from anyone than their intrinsic value deserves — which is obviously far less than that of iron. Without iron human life is simply impossible, just as it is without fire or water — but we could easily do without silver and gold, if it weren't for the idiotic concept of scarcity-value. And yet kind Mother Nature has deliberately placed all her greatest blessings, like earth, air, and water, right under our noses, and tucked away out of sight the things that are no use to us.
Economics should be seen as a sub-field, as a branch of moral and political philosophy.
What's missing is engaging with big ethical questions. Questions about the right way of valuing goods and social practices. So... Why do we shrink from this?
Morally invigorate the terms of public discourse. To overcome the bad habit of outsourcing our moral judgements to markets what we need is a politics of mutual respect that engages with competing views, including competing moral and even spiritual conceptions.
"If you ever get to a situation, where humanity is stood to the side of the production process, letting machines do the job, you will need for knowledge to become social"
[Marx, by Paul Mason]
"If such [automated] machines ever existed, the difference between master and slave would disapear"
[Aristotle]
"The two sources of truth in modern life (universities and the media) are on the systemic attack by the new thought architects of fascism"
"So I always ask the question, 'what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?' Well, it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers, but as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way…"
"Por que é que os camponeses egípcios e os soldados prussianos agiam de forma tão diferente daquela que, com base no Ultimatum Game e na experiência dos macacos-capuchinhos, poderíamos esperar? Porque os conjuntos numerosos de pessoas comportam-se de uma maneira fundamentalmente diferente da dos grupos pouco numerosos." Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
3:40 Why logos are worth more to some companies than others? 5:40 Price the client not the job 7:45 What does Blind charge to design a logo? 8:25 How do you quantify/justify the hours to a client? 9:45 Paula Scher's approach 11:40 Pricing role play 13:20 Most entrepreneurs value time. Symmetry of logic. 21:20 Clients don't choose the best option. They choose the least risky option.
It's no longer about the CEO, it's about the 'Everyday Joe'
It's no longer about fund raising, it's about friend raising.
It's no longer about tags, it's about price less.
What we do for love will always be greater than what we do for money.
"SDT is an organismic dialectical approach. It begins with the assumption that people are active organisms, with evolved tendencies toward growing, mastering ambient challenges, and integrating new experiences into a coherent sense of self. These natural developmental tendencies do not, however, operate automatically, but instead require ongoing social nutriments and supports. That is, the social context can either support or thwart the natural tendencies toward active engagement and psychological growth, or it can catalyze lack of integration, defense, and fulfillment of need-substitutes. Thus, it is the dialectic between the active organism and the social context that is the basis for SDT’s predictions about behavior, experience, and development. [...] research has looked at how controlling versus autonomy-supportive
environments impact functioning and wellness, as well as performance and
persistence."
Mais, aqui
Money desensitizes us:
What motivates us:
Investigação:
Paying more, when paying for others. Aqui
"What is needed is not more moralising, but more money. This kind of talk
makes many environmentalists queasy. Greens generally view biodiversity
conversation as a moral cause, and any discussion of financial mechanisms and marketing schemes arouses strong and principled
opposition. Why should any other species, each with just as much right
to occupy this living Earth as us, be forced to 'pay its way'? This
objection is understandable but wrong-headed: what I am proposing is not
a liquidation of nature to make money, but using money simply as a
convenient means to safeguard its protection. Money is a measure of
value: put a price on wild animals and plants and we will put a value on
them too. This is a pragmatic strategy, only to be used in desperation
because others have failed." Mark Lynas, in The God Species
"Every 30 to 40 years the world has a new monetary system. And, the
thing is that over the years, governments and the banks basically
screwed us more and more. And these new currency systems are always
created by the same idiots that created the last one that fell apart.
It's the central banks and the governments that are creating these new
systems each time. And each time, the system they come up with is a
system that cheats the population more and enriches the governments and
banks more. It's a system that transfers wealth at greater and greater
speeds. This one is going to fall apart just like all of the others.
There's a difference now. There's the internet. People are connected
all over the world. Information is spreading and people are getting
educated."
• Desliguem a TV.
• Conheçam o inimigo.
• Divulguem. Digam aos vossos familiares e amigos e vizinhos o que se passa, para que eles se eduquem.
Porque quando o colapso financeiro ocorrer, os fulanos no topo da pirâmide [Goldman Sacks] imporão mais medidas de austeridade: mais impostos e menos benefícios sociais.
... Que se taxe a fast food. Por acaso até concordo com a medida que tomaram na Islândia ao obrigarem a apresentação de receita médica para comprar tabaco. Por acaso até estou de acordo que se taxe o álcool. Por acaso não me agrada que o meu dinheiro dos impostos seja aplicado em medicamentos e tratamentos daqueles que optam por dar cabo da sua saúde.
Por acaso não acho que medidas deste tipo interfiram com a liberdade de ninguém.
Por acaso também acho que o Estado tem enormes responsabilidades na "educação para a saúde" da sua população.
