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The Tax Free Tour

"Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally. Those routes go by resounding names like 'Cayman Special', 'Double Irish', and 'Dutch Sandwich'. A financial world operates in the shadows surrounded by a high level of secrecy. A place where sizeable capital streams travel the world at the speed of light and avoid paying tax. The Tax Free Tour is an economic thriller mapping the systemic risk for governments and citizens alike. Is this the price we have to pay for globalised capitalism? At the same time, the free online game "Taxodus" by Femke Herregraven is launched. In the game, the player can select the profile of a multinational and look for the global route to pay as little tax as possible...(source)

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Life changing technology

...New technologies give us the possibility to record every second of our lives and to store it for eternity. The new generation of computer-controlled mini-cameras is now wearable on our bodies, taking automatically a picture every 3 seconds, and cannot be switched off. The techno-optimists call this form of archiving their existence: ‘Lifelogging’, and we can expect the technology business to evolve even further, possibly merging with our bodies. The perfect visual memory lies at hand’s reach and is even delivered with a search button. Is it a possibility that the image of reality will slowly become more real than the reality itself? Or is it already pointless to still make this distinction?

The technology history already showed us that the technology evolution goes so fast, now trends become obsolete in a matter of months. The digital video storage is getting cheaper and legislation always lags behind the development of new technology. And while new medicines have to go through endless testing before being put on the market, the technology outside the body has no limit and we can only find out the consequences it will have on us along the way...(source)

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Archives

"One might compare the art of photography to the act of pointing. It must be true that some of us point to more interesting facts, events, circumstances, and configurations than others." John Szarkowski

Is a quote from a post in 2009 that I thought about then found in seconds because my blogs are archived.  I dug it up because I’m sharing content at the moment rather than creating it.  That bothers me, but research informs the process so it’s necessary to shift focus at times.  It’s also true that the more you have access and reference to, the richer the world is.

VPRO’s Backlight series is excellent:

This episode is about digital amnesia, the importance of history in shaping our future, and paradoxically, how humanity is genuinely moving backwards in its approach to maintaining our ever increasing volume of culture.

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Interview Ricardo Semler

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Bekijk het volledige interview met Ricardo Semler door VPRO Tegenlicht. In de aflevering ‘De kapitale kracht van geluk’ is een portret te zien van Semler. Hier is het hele interview van anderhalf uur te zien. Grotendeels onbewerkt, maar wel opgedeeld in hoofdstukken.

A full interview with Ricardo Semler…

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The Food Speculator, by Kees Brouwer, VPRO

Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people's lives. Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange.