Citizens often say that man is evil and lazy. I think they imply a causal relationship between evil and lazy, ie that a lazy person would be evil. This idea goes back to Protestantism's kinship between its ethics and capitalism as described by the sociologist Max Weber. Before industrialism in the 1800th century, the rich were often robber barons…
Month: March 2013
Recycling authority to save the environment
To save the environment, we need to recycle more, preferably everything. I think this is best done by creating a recycling authority where the employees can disassemble devices and machines and everything possible under safe conditions. It is not possible as it is now to ship it to unsafe recycling in developing countries where people recycle under very dangerous conditions such as...
Profit by dropping quality
Profit in the independent school is created by completely ignoring quality. The students fall behind without the schools caring and the politicians watching passively. In addition to being a teacher, teachers have to work with pastoral care as well as janitorship and washing the students' coffee cups. Read the article here.
Worsened social security just a way to pressure wages and working conditions
If Social Security becomes less readily available and more meagerly scaled, people are pressured to put up with anything in the workplace at the risk of otherwise getting a lousy Social Security benefit, an even worse job, or worst case scenario, being out of insurance. Good social insurance is part of the fight for good wages and working conditions for everyone.
Advertising advocates men's violence against women
Read this incredible article about how the masculinity norm i.a. through advertising advocates that men gain power over women by force and that this would be sexy. A man who is empathetic should not be called a sexist but should be praised just like any other empathetic person.
So fucking pk!
Nice film with an important message about the importance of everyone's equal value and a story about some pigs who violate this.
To say the least, a slightly outdated view of women
Here is an article that was removed with a somewhat outdated view of women, to say the least.
Increased social security would reduce unemployment according to a professor of economics
According to Lars Calmfors, professor of national economics, reduced contributions to the social security fund, raised ceilings in the social security fund, more money for the municipalities and other forms of a more expansive fiscal policy would reduce unemployment. Read more here!