default on your debts, bail out your children

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Greece should default on the payments of its debts. Germany too. France too. Japan also, as well as U.S.A. and any other State that has become indebted by now. Bail out your children: default on your debts. This is the only way the lenders can learn any lesson about what capitalism really means to the [...]

notebombs on free software, public services, intellectuals and parasites

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Is your toilet economically sustainable? Intrigued by Ubuntuism, commodification, and the software dialectic by Mike Chege, published on 1-st Dec 2008 in FirstMonday. The author says: free software is based on a philosophy of inclusion, cooperation, sharing, and openness, while the market is synonymous with self–interest, secretiveness, competition, and the exclusion of those who do [...]

free market, a tragical and fake concept

Friday, November 14th, 2008

According to wikipedia, free market means that the buyers and the sellers agree to a mutual exchange of property without external coercing or anyone of them coercing the other. Free market is a self-contradictory concept because even if we start with economic agents of equal power, small wealth inequalities become economic advantages, that is, coercion [...]