Always negative, never positive
This archiconocida sentence of ex-Barcelona coach Louis van Gaal, aimed at sports journalists, insisting on highlighting the negative aspects of the game of FC Barcelona during a stage of crisis in the game "pass" or painted it comes to the national situation. Zapatero to imagine, screaming at the congress to Rajoy "ALWAYS NO, NEVER POSITIVE! YOU ARE VERY BAD!
In this country, things are going from one extreme to another, a time when everything was going "wind in its sails," which said that the model was not sustainable, they were branded as doom, and the press was selling the strength of the Spanish market, of large corporations such as leaving abroad to buy, as was the miracle Spanish reconquered the world, and now that everything is black, everything is negative and quoting another Barcelona (Joan Laporta) "EYE, NOT WE THE DEN THAT WE ARE NOT SO BAD!
I believe that the current global crisis is bringing many negative effects, but we should also look for the positive. The optimistic view is something that should never be lost. In business schools, to illustrate this idea, explains that an ancient culture like China, the concepts are spoken by the same word.
Here is a brief list of opportunities that gives us the crisis.
- Many of those who are going poorly, finances are learning in a rush, and I doubt very much the recurrence of financial mass suicides like that have occurred in recent years and if memory flojea not allow their kids committed.
- The sharp decline in consumption, lowers inflation, and hence the rates and the Euribor relax, lowering the mortgage fees.
I hope that learning point 1 plus the lowering of quotas next year of Section 2, allowing for better financial health for Spanish families over the next few years. - The strike will obviously be a problem for many people, but the time of arrest, is an ideal time for training. If you suddenly had 4 million Spaniards learning something, the Spanish would improve human capital. We see it as an opportunity to leave a bit of low value-added industry we have in Spain, so that when the economic recovery, we stop being at the tail of the added value and productivity in Europe.
- Speculative markets appear to be in decline by low confidence, both as a bag house, there is a major slap. With a little luck, we learn that it is not normal for someone to win with the sale of an apartment that has not been able to win in his entire life working, leaving indebted for life to a third party.
- Are coming to light and exploiting many bubbles that neither knew they existed, such as restaurants, furniture, vehicles and household appliances. You just need to see what a laptop is worth today. Did not you feel cheated when they get catalogs filled with offers to the mailbox and see what they are worth and what it worth?
- Reactivation of the market for repairs of all kinds, in turn reducing the volume of waste discharges. How many appliances have been thrown in the trash to be in perfect order of use?
- Rationalization of consumption, which will cause a reduction in the buying momentum that we had to buy things or useless without comparing prices, producing an effect of "natural selection" in which only surviving companies more efficient.
- Reduced margins in the brokerage that has hurt both the company and that has enriched a few. For example, following the shocking margins that brokers were taking food, I started to go to the market to buy fruit and vegetables and I discovered a couple of things, that the price is lower and the flavor of tomatoes.
- falling topics as "the house never low," "the Euribor can never climb above ...", "prolonged periods to be better off" and at international level has sunk into poverty lapidary phrase in force until the moment of "to big to fail "(too big for fall).
- Those who bought housing to live (which seems to lie that there would be this way) they will lower the fees and those who bought for speculation they have been fucked up the plum. In general, the loss of profitability above average, away from the market undesirable.
- For those who prefer to hire, rising supply, it could at least keep prices stable few years.
- The society is an intelligent when it is in distress, very good ideas emerge spontaneously, as the Bank of Time.
The Bank of Time is a community that uses as a bargaining chip "when" and personal skills. I offer my services without any monetary payment (usually) and by completing Coupons about who gets my services, can be accumulated "time". Subsequently, I can go to the headquarters of the bank's time and redeem the services provided by others. One of the pioneers in developing experiments on the bank of the time was the American anarchist Josiah Warren.
In an interview that was broadcast on television Catalan, left several examples. A young single computer that gave classes in the evenings from Windows and Office users at a number of housewives, and then, with the "time" that he had won, passing by the house of a woman who gave him a dinner Tupper and the food the next day. This lady was offered for ironing and cooking for others, and in exchange, earned the "weather" of a plumber, a lampista, a massage or simply a company for people you do or buy to accompany.
Time is not susceptible to currency speculation, resists inflation, is very stable, with no financial institution will charge you interest and for which the Treasury can not you apply any tax. More importantly, it revitalizes the life of the community.
Obviously, this system can not replace the current monetary system, money and banks are absolutely necessary, but when we find alternatives, however small, stop being so dependent on the system and broken (or is slightly) the monopoly.
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Loading ... Oriolrc written by the November 17, 2008 with 272 reviews.
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# 1, Ertitoagus
"Time is not susceptible to currency speculation" ... ..
Do not put to the test, which if anything has shown is that mankind is able to speculate on anything.