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The cheese seems reasonable

by Paul de Blot 15 April 2009 permalink

In a crisis meeting one often knows no advice, because the security of the premises have been dropped. It can easily panic reasonably anticipate where every missing. All agree that there should be cuts because the economic logic is clear. The expenses are too big and the small income, so spend less. But then comes the question how it can. It turns out the easiest cheese: let everyone equally surrender. That's fair.


Witchhunt against bonus

There is a witch hunt against emergence bonuses that are seen as the main culprit of the crisis. The media are full of it and everyone is angry. But the cancer is not much deeper, namely in our greed? We realize that man is worth more than its monetary value and that our happiness is not in terms of financial wealth can be expressed?