Archive for October, 2008

the mother of all movies

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I’m deeply indebted to the author of zeitgeist: addendum, Peter Joseph, this is a documentary that goes to the core of it, and I’ll have to add it to my the most list. Thanks for the patience and the hard work, it filled me with optimism. If you don’t care to learn about where the [...]

why, stubbornly, don’t you

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Although I wasn’t born a shareholder, not even a stakeholder, I’m continuously tucked in there by the invisible hand of the market, a concept covering for the lack of minimal understanding of what is happening or the complete lack of personal responsibility. I’d say this is one example of the objective/structural violence, as pointed at [...]

mandating private pension funds

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Some kind of capitalist trick invaded Romania lately: any man and his flea is bound by law to create and feed regularly an account in a private pension fund, for retirement. When the pension fund goes bust, the best thing that can happen for the retired is that the government will bail them out: then, [...]