Some time ago I saw a documentary about a Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban, because she actively defended girls right to school education. I had heard news about that before, but they didn’t stop me like the documentary, which brought the whole thing nearer. Malala survived the attack. It…
The strong belief of Alan Greenspan to the free capitalistic market economy is based on his perception of human being as a rational thinking creature. The core idea of capitalistic market economy and free competition is incorporated in the term homo economicus. A human being has rational mind and when homo economicus makes rational choices…
It remains to be seen how Ilkka Paananen and Co. can maintain their operational principles in the long run when interests divide. It is sure that there will be partners, who think that paying taxes is stupid when on can avoid to pay them. However the viewpoint Paananen and Co. put forth strengthens my impression…
In the middle of October I was very surprised to read news about the acquisition between a Finnish video game development company, Supercell and a Japanese telecommunications and Internet corporation SoftBank and a video game company GungHo. The acquisition brought the Finnish counterparts 1,1 billion (11*100 million) euros. The news surprised me, because I had…
[image source_type=”attachment_id” source_value=”1559″ effect=”none” size=”large” width=”630″ fitMobile=”true” autoHeight=”true”]Last decade I have been searching for me a digital camera. I think that poor people, like I am cannot afford to buy bad quality things or waste their money for unnecessary testing, so I have approached this thing very earnestly. Sometimes I already have thought to have…
After I had found a waterbed for dogs I talked about it to my friend.I wanted to know what colour and which size would she like to have. When she discussed the matter with her spouse it almost lead to a family dispute. “Nothing is purchased for that dog any more! It is just waste…
I have been wondering why are waterbeds marketed basically for wealthy people as an ego flattering place to sleep in. According to adverts waterbeds are good for two things and the other is sleeping. I bought my first waterbed in the beginning of the 1980s, as they came to Finland. The reason was very simple:…
In the last decades I have often wondered why are mathematics and physics considered as natural sciences, although it seems that they have as little to do with nature as economics, which describes the relationships of money. Is based on human thoughts so to speak. Chemistry has obviously direct connection to nature, while it studies…
I watched in May the BBC documentary Inside the Saudi Kingdom, in which the Saudi Arabian crown prince Saud bin Abdul Muhsin tells how the consciousness expansion of people and individualization is changing the Islamic society. As I was watching the documentary it reminded me of my text ‘Living a Balanced Life on Own Conditions’…
The Finnish (former) prime minister Jyrki Katainen spoke about the factors of social and cultural change as he opened a meeting of the ministers of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) on the 14th, August 2013. He saw the thing from the perspective of the Finnish society, but the changes are worldwide: all over the world…
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