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Universal Basic Income? Why?
Universal Basic Income? Why?
A lot has been said about basic income. Let us for now put aside the question of how it can be paid for or whether or not it will destroy social security systems. Let’s ask a more existential question: should we give people an income for basically doing nothing apart from being alive?
In our current day society there seems to be a general opinion that people have to prove their worth before they…
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Success, Your Way!
Everyone wants to be successful in life. Magazines, newspapers, the internet, social media, they are full of articles about successful people and the stories of what brought them there. There is an abundant amount of articles on how to become successful, all of them providing the one or two things you need to do to get there. They sound alluring and yes, they help you with success but it’s only…
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A job created is a job well done?
A job created is a job well done?
A major rhetoric when you listen to politicians these days is: we will create more jobs! It was one of the main propaganda points for Trump, it played a role in Brexit and we hear it quite a lot during elections around the Western world. The message is clear: a job created is a job well done. But is that so?
Jobs are not neutral. Every job has an impact. On the person doing that job, indirectly…
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Do we live in a simulation? If so, which one?
Do we live in a simulation? If so, which one?
I’ve seen quite a few mentions of the possibility that we might live in a simulated universe. For those who have not encountered the theory before, the reasoning goes like this:
If we ever become advanced enough to be able to emulate a universe, we probably will. If that universe then spawns intelligent life and they advance to the level where they can do the same, they probably will too. And so…
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Towards an Economy of Flow
Towards an Economy of Flow
A while I read this article in the Guardian which states that in order to combat climate change we don’t just need to switch to renewable energy, we need to create a new economic system. I have been doing some research of monetary systems and the economic eco systems they create for a while and after reading the article some extra pieces of the puzzle clicked into place.
Capitalism, an economy of…
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Building on Goodwill is a Bad Idea
Building on Goodwill is a Bad Idea
Imagine I have a porcelain shop and I base my business on the goodwill of people. I leave my door unlocked at all times, I put an urn on the counter for people to leave money in for when want to purchase some of my goods. I visit the shop to bring in new items and to have a chat with the people visiting. I guess you can see where this will go wrong. It just needs 1 person to come in who either…
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Entering the Era of Psychological Warfare
Entering the Era of Psychological Warfare
This morning I came across an article that left me quite horrified. It also spurred a lot of questions. The article in question was about how your online data can be used to build an accurate psychological profile of you … and how that profile can be used to target you, as an individual with political propaganda. The company providing this service is Cambridge Analitica.
First they were working…
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The Birth of Art
The Birth of Art
When I was travelling around Australia with my girlfriend at the beginning of 2016 I was enjoying myself with the panoramic photo option on my iPhone. I like taking panoramic photos. Even though the center of the photo always comes out more pronounced than the rest, it captures an expansive environment so much better than a regular picture. And then someone walked through the shot. I don’t know…
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My 'me too!' stories and why they are important
My ‘me too!’ stories and why they are important
We have all had them, these ‘me too!’ stories. You know, it happens when we see someone else do something we imagine would be fun doing ourselves. Being a musician, a writer, a reporter, a coach, an entrepreneur, … The list is endless. Most of the time these things remain just that, a wish that we could do that too. Sometimes we actually start working towards it … and then give up. Some people…
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The missing link in our sustainibility story
The missing link in our sustainibility story
On the 25th of June 2016 I participated in the first civic council of Antwerp (in Dutch) and on the agenda was a fund for sustainability projects. I think it’s a great idea to have a fund for that! Very happy that Antwerp is investing in sustainability! But what is meant by sustainability? It’s one of those terms that is used quite a lot these days. It’s a favorite buzzword for leaders and…
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Can you get rid of the messiness of life?
Can you get rid of the messiness of life?
Simple answer: no. You can’t get rid of all of it … there will always be some mess. Fact.
It’s like when you move house – you try to pack everything neatly into boxes, but some things don’t fit and you have to carry them separately or tied up with string. And when you get to your new home, there’s always at least one box that never gets unpacked properly. This box stays in a corner … the messy…
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Inconvenient boundaries
This morning I had a chat with a female friend of mine in Australia. She thanked me for being the only one of her male friends to like a post related to the rape case Brock Turner in the US. And she wondered why men, from what she observes, usually don’t react to these kind of posts.
Some time later I came across a video of a guy behaving … well, badly doesn’t cover it in the least! And that just…
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Fixing the economy, eradicating poverty and making taxes obsolete
Fixing the economy, eradicating poverty and making taxes obsolete
Yes, it is possible! It can be done with a new kind of currency. It’s an idea that has been brooding in my mind for about a year now and recently the final puzzle piece fell into place.
I’ll start with a short introduction to our current state of affairs and then I’ll lay out the goals to be achieved before diving into describing how money can work differently. For those who want to dive in…
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Our insane addiction to jobs
Our insane addiction to jobs
When you hear ny political candidate today, job creation will always be mentioned somewhere in their rhetoric. It does not matter in which side of the political spectrum they reside. The voting public also demands jobs, jobs, jobs. Up to the point where job creation seems to become the highest achievable good. It has become such an obsession that we don’t care what kind of jobs they are and in…
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Why the discoveries in the Panama papers are a symptom and not the real problem
Why the discoveries in the Panama papers are a symptom and not the real problem
Ever since the news about the Panama papers came out the media has been buzzing. It brought Iceland’s prime minister’s political career to an end, banks that are involved are under fire and around the world there is a general atmosphere of anger and frustration directed at the rich and powerful. What has been brought to the surface by these findings is deemed corrupt and immoral. And I am not…
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Democracy, can we actually vote for it?
Democracy, can we actually vote for it?
The Western world claims to be a democracy. With lobbyists and big money having so much influence that statement might be up for debate. But we still have a vote to get the right people to power, don’t we? It depends on how you look at it.
What is the influence of our voting system on our voting behaviour?
What do we actually do when we vote? In most voting systems that I know, with the exception…
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The nature of money - Part 4: The alternatives
The year was 1932 and the small town of Wörgl in Austria was caught up in the great depression, just like the rest of the world.
When Michael Unterguggenberger (1884-1936) was elected mayor of Wörgl, the city had 500 jobless people and another 1,000 in the immediate vicinity. Furthermore, 200 families were absolutely penniless. The mayor-with-the-long-name (as Professor Irving Fisherfrom Yale…
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