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Avustajabisnes ja sen aiheuttaman hullunmyllyn nostattamia mietteitä

Pohjoismaissa kansalaisten hyvinvointipalvelut muodostavat suuren osan maiden kansantulosta. Aikaisemmin palveluiden järjestäminen oli täysin julkisen sektorin vastuulla. Palveluiden tuotto oli valvottua ja työntekijöillä oli minimivaatimukset osaamisen ja kielitaidon suhteen. Perinteisesti julkisen sektorin järjestämiä palveluita ei ole pidetty varsinaisena liiketoimintana, sillä siinähän vain ”kierrätetään kansalaisten maksamia veroja”. Yritykset toitottavat suureen ääneen oman toimintansa tuottaman lisäarvon hyödystä yhteiskunnalle,…

Post-Truth Era – What Has Happened to Knowledge?

The Truth Cast Adrift When I have read advertisements of the country’s largest daily newspaper about “moving to a post-truth Era” I have been pondering what might this directly suggest. Generally speaking, the saying refers to circumstances, where objective facts affect public opinion less than relying on emotions and personal convictions. In practice, it has…

The EU and Russia

When Donald Trump visited Europe in July, he said that the EU is the biggest rival, foe of the USA. When I saw the word ‘foe’ for the first time it had the meaning of ‘fool’ (a useful idiot) in my mind. So the EU is the most significant useful idiot of the USA. “That’s…

Know Your Adversary

As I watch a video, which shows the vandalism of immigrants in Europe, I wish that the political leaders in Europe would put an end to vandalism and rallies as decisively as China cracked down on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. 1989 the Western World loudly accused the government of China of…

Money is a bad motivator

Money Is a Bad Motivator

The so called developed societies today operate as irrationally as companies that employ telemarketers for a short time on commission and pay them according to numbers (statistics) they show without making sure that the sales are real. Telemarketers think only about their personal income and may send people unfounded invoices without thinking a bit about…

Homo Sapiens vs. Homo Economicus

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…

What happened to me?

In my text Foretaste of Forthcoming I write that I found a sustainable ground for my life over 30 years ago in the lyrics of an ancient oriental hymn. I am glad that I can stand tall now and say: this is how it happened. But as everything was happening to me I did not…