Why advertisement funded companies are immoral

Companies which rely on advertising to function their are immoral. The reason why is that they hide the true cost of work from the customers of that company. They misrepresent the work done in order to render the service or create the product they offer. This in turn devalues work and the appreciation of the value created. It also obfuscates the decision process required to make an effective decision in regard to the value to the user. Both of which I think are immoral.

Taxation and government spending in New Europe (Part 4 of the New Europe series)

In this chapter I will deal with a very important matter: the financial dealings of the state. The bottom line of the financial affairs of any state revolve around income and expenditure. There is no way around it. If you don’t have the money, you can’t spend it. According to some (I’d say rather foolish) people, this view of dealing with the organisation of the state is cold and doesn’t include the human perspective. I’d say that this all boils down to the implementation of the policy by the people who need to carry out the work implementing it, but there’s no way around the fact that you need money to keep things running and that you can’t keep things running if you don’t balance the books. Continue reading

Government structure of New Europe (part 3 in the New Europe series)

In this post I will discuss the government structure I have in mind for New Europe.

This part will focus on the structure of government on the national level and the role and structure of provincial government, which will likely mirror that of the national government, except where this is superfluous.

The points I’d like to discuss in this post can be summarized as follows:

  • National government structure and its procedures
    • Executive branch
    • Legislative branch
    • Judicial branch
  • Provincial government structure, its reach and its limits.

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Towards a New Europe (part 1 in the New Europe series)

Europe is failing. The Greek credit crisis and the current refugee problem underline that the European project is stalling to the point where it is at risk of failing altogether. I think that the solution is the finalisation of the project. In this post I will explain why I think this is the case and how I plan to explain my solution. Continue reading

Life as an INTJ

http://www.typefinder.com/intj

I’ve identified myself as an INTJ. After reading some of the characteristics and taking a test, I’ve some to the conslusion that this is the best fit.

It seems that INTJ’s are a rather odd bunch. We like to express our opinions, but keep to ourselves as well. We never lie and we always want a good proof for some statement or idea. It certainly seems to match my way of doing things.

But the best thing is, I’ve found a small instructional text that I can refer to in case people need that 🙂 At last I can just tell them off with a simple RTFM!