Ibane’s ramblings
“The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc is bound to be noticed.” S. KierkegaardArchive for Crisis
Job offer
We are looking for skilled candidates to cover a high-level position.
Requirements
– You must have an enormous greed.
– By any means you should apply any ethics or moral in your actions. You will be allowed or even encouraged to talk to any type of people with no resent or moral prejudices. Dictators, drug dealers, corrupted politicians, merciless property developers,…these will be your allies and main customers in order to be successful.
– You will and must take risks in a irresponsibly manner and not caring at all about the effects or the consequences as long as your bonus increases.
– Creating poverty, scarcity in job market, strengthening an unfair system and creating an unbalance distribution of wealth will be your drivers.
If you managed to screw up everything and create historical losses you will be compensated by an obscene bonus that you will be able to enjoy in some tax paradise.
Please send your CV to any investment bank in Wall Street or banks in general.
Crisis responses
I have been trying to avoid to emit any opinion about the current finance and economic situation for many reasons, among them my opinion is irrelevant and also I don’t have all the information to build one that it is worthy to be considered. On the other, hand seeing how our leaders having privileged access to all kind of information from advisers, institutions…they were not able to foresee what was coming, not even close.
Now that we are sunk in deep dirt, our politicians, policy makers, bankers, finance brains seem to agree that the whole problem is that the coward consumers have stopped to do what apparently is so needed, to consume without limits and control. We have in Spain the prime minister asking (it sounded more begging) to consume as normal to recover faster, in Helsinki metro you can find an ad where they encourage you to consume to save the economy. I am sure you can find similar examples all around the world.
These messages coming from media in different formats made me think, having a naive thought, I thought that these unfortunate happenings would be a very good opportunity to change our economic model, a model that has carried us to have more poverty, more distance between poor and rich, and being very harmful for our environment. However, our leaders seem that the only message is “Please, keep on consuming to keep things the same because we are too incompetent to think something by our own”.
Well, I rebel against this, I am not buying these messages and all that crap, as a voter and a tax payer I demand a better solution from them. I know for some politicians will be the introduction of two activities at the same time, working and thinking. Bankers and corporations are other story.
Ibane's ramblings 