Archives for posts with tag: Mutual Respect

Noi traim ca sa mancam sau mancam ca sa traim?

April 6, 2014 //

“Meniul zile cu 11 lei/3 feluri nu e vina patronului de restaurant ci a clientului care strâmbă din nas și pleacă la vecinul care vinde cu 50 de bani mai ieftin. Mâncarea multă, pusă cu lopata pe un platou de lemn încărcat de grăsime nu-i vina patronului ci a clientului care vrea să mănânce 1800 de grame de cartofi țărănești cu ciolan, cu 26 de lei. Colicile biliare de după căruța de mici cu cartofi pai sunt tot vina noastră, pentru că, pentru a putea vinde cinci mici cu muștar, cartofi și pâine cu 11-14 lei, ei bine, micii aceia nu mai sunt ce ar trebui să fie iar uleiul în care au fost fripți cartofii e cel mai ieftin și n-a mai fost schimbat de două săptămâni.”

Amandoi, atat clientul cat si ‘restauratorul’ sunt vinovati de ‘lacomie’. Uita ca ‘banul’ si mancarea sunt doar unelte. Primul masoara cat de eficienta este activitatea noastra iar a doua ne tine in viata.
Din pacate le-am transformat pe amandoua in ‘obiective strategice’.
Si iar imi aduc aminte de bunica-mea care ma intreba “ce crezi tu, noi oamenii mancam ca sa traim sau traim ca sa mancam?”

Iar daca uitam ca scopul primordial al activitatii noastre (actul de a manca este inclus aici) este in realitate “supravietuirea” (atat cea fizica, individuala, cat si cea ‘sociala’ – adica a mediului social si economic care ne face posibila existenta fizica) vom sfarsi prin a da faliment/muri de foame sau din cauza obezitatii. Ca sa nu mai vorbim despre faptul ca asta se va intampla in mijlocul unei gropi de gunoi.

Tags Cooperation, corruption, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories aici sunt banii dumneavoastra

Sitting together on a train were Pres. Obama, George W. Bush, a little old lady, and a young blonde girl with large breasts

April 6, 2014 //

Excellent post.
Obama failed to fulfill, by far, both the promises he made when he run for president AND the hopes/illusions nurtured by those who voted for him but holding him accountant for all the misery that befell on the regular Joe is a little too much.
This kind of mistakes is very costly. Those who forget that the daily actions of each and everyone of us aggregate into our common destiny tend to believe that we might change our fortune simply by changing the leader.
History has proven, time and again, that we’ll keep making the same mistake until we’ll eventually understand what went wrong. And start doing ourselves what needs to be done instead of looking up to somebody above us to direct our actions.

Tags Collective identity, Cooperation, Democracy, herding, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories 1989 and the Global Financial Crisises., politics, Psychology, The world as described in jokes

Noah and the flood.

April 4, 2014 //

I expect you all know the story of the flood.
For those who feel the need to refresh their memories here is the original version.

Lately people have given up reading so some guy felt the need to use another medium in order to convey the essence of this story. Or just saw a good opportunity to make a buck? Maybe both? Anyway…

Reactions have started to flow: “Why our Youth Group won’t be going to see Noah!”
Make an effort and do read that post. It’s really worth it.

Then somebody put THE question: “Does anyone really believe there was an ark?”

Here is my answer:

Yes, I do believe there was an ark, only it wasn’t ‘made out of wood’.
In fact I see the entire Bible as a very powerful metaphor.
Coming back to this particular instance, for a considerable amount of time people thought that children come from God and that intercourse was just for fun.
By specifically asking Noah to bring animals in pairs the Bible makes it perfectly clear that even if God’s will might have something to do with the whole process for a child to appear two parents of opposite sex are a must. Besides ‘the Word being spoken’ some actual, ‘material’ conditions must be met for anything of substance to come into being.
Furthermore, the fact of the matter is that Noah basically saved himself. It was he who build the ark. God could have ‘miraculously’ saved him, alongside some animals but no, he had Noah do all the work.
I understand this passage of the Bible as a warning: don’t expect anyone to do your job for you and it is you who are the sole responsible for the well being of the world around you.

Tags Collective identity, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories 1989 and the Global Financial Crisises., Psychology, The world as described in jokes

“We’ve moved from a cost culture to a customer culture,”

April 2, 2014 //

“During the hearing, a lawmaker read out an internal company e-mail saying that a 90-cent per-piece increase that would have fixed the flawed part wasn’t justified by the offsetting 10 cents to 15 cents in warranty savings. Barra, 52, said the GM she inherited three months ago would never condone executives opposing fixes that might have saved lives because they’re too expensive.”

We all know were the ‘cost culture’ has taken the ‘old’ GM: into the ground.
I’ll be blunt on this one. In fact it is not about minimizing the costs. That is not only rational but also natural. The real problems arise from ‘maximizing profits’, sometimes at “all costs”. Non financial costs that is. I.e. lives. Human lives in this case.

And this will keep on happening until we’ll finally understand that profits are good – inexorable even – but only as long they are an indicator for being on the right track towards long time survival (sustainable growth if you want to call it that way).

Allowing for the customers to get killed just for the sake of some pennies shaved from the costs is an extreme but compelling symptom of the present confusion. Short time profits, made at the expense of the customers, can be extremely dangerous.

Eventually they’ll kill the business itself, not just the customers.

PS Click on the highlighted quote, or here, and read the entire Bloomberg article. It’s worth it.

Tags confusion, corruption, GM, herding, Long time survival., Mutual Respect, responsibility, Short term-ism.

Categories 1989 and the Global Financial Crisises., Economy, Psychology

Innocence

April 1, 2014 //

Some believe innocence is lost when becoming sexually active.

Some others understand, mostly the hard way, that being innocent means not being able to discern crooks from trustworthy people and that sometimes this condition cannot be cured.

Tags Cooperation, corruption, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories 1989 and the Global Financial Crisises., Psychology, yes but

History repeats itself

March 28, 2014 //

Not that simple…
Those who have understood something from studying history already know that eventually people will learn to avoid repeating the same mistakes… or else…
It is true that new mistakes appear all the time!

Tags Cooperation, Long time survival., Mutual Respect, Too big to fail

Categories 1989 and the Global Financial Crisises., Psychology, The world as described in jokes

‘NSA proof internet platform’?!?

March 28, 2014 //

“MIT researchers built NSA proof internet platform.

Major online security and data hacks exposing sensitive user information have become commonplace in the digital age thanks to criminals and governments alike, but researchers at MIT think it’s time to change that….”

I have a strong hunch that if those guys at NSA weren’t so ‘aggressive’ at collecting all kind of data all from all over the world it is highly possible that people wouldn’t have gotten so pissed off about the whole thing as to invent this contraption…
Now, with this new tool at their disposal, conspirators have gotten a gulp of fresh air at the expense of the rest of us…

Tags authoritarianism, Cooperation, Democracy, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories politics, yes but

Pe ce se bazeaza increderea

March 26, 2014 //

Pe timp si pe experienta lucrului facut asa cum trebuie:

“Surowiecki ne spune că un sistem fiscal eficient se bazează în primul rând pe încrederea contribuabililor: în primul rând în Guvern că foloseşte banii judicios şi, în al doilea rând, în faptul că toată lumea respectă regulile jocului şi nu încearcă să trişeze. Dacă această încredere este erodată, atunci întreg sistemul se clatină şi merge către colaps”, punctează Gabriel Sincu.”

http://www.money.ro/aletra-72prc–dintre-antreprenori-considera-ca-mediul-fiscal-s-a-deteriorat_1257701.html

Tags Collective identity, Cooperation, Long time survival., Mutual Respect

Categories aici sunt banii dumneavoastra, Culture, Economy, politics, Psychology, Tara din care traim

Nedumeriri conjugale…

March 24, 2014 //

“Cum se ceartă femeile cu bărbații.”

Cica ‘barbatii sunt de pe Marte iar femeile de pe Venus’ dar daca tot s-au hotarat sa traiasca impreuna pe Pamant de ce nu se adapteaza oare noilor conditii?