I have been looking at some news headlines and corruption news seem to erupt everyday, and touching all levels.
Yet most of the people involved are still in power or in their position ... it is very worisome as they are in command and have in their hand power that can shape the futur of this country.
One interesting question that one could raisewill be : "is the current political landscape legitimate and reflect the Finnish population choice"...no one has a clear answer sadly?
Nevertheless it remind me a movie, I let you guess it ...
Cole Sear: I see corrupt people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
[Cole shakes his head no]
Malcolm Crowe: While you're awake?
[Cole nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Corrupt people like, in politics? In Nuorisosäätiö?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're corrupt.
Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?
Cole Sear: All the time. They're everywhere.
3 comments:
We may have to accept the reality: the corruption is actually a part of the foundation for the REAL economy. What most important is then to answer the following questions: (1) Where will the current economy go and, who will pay the costs for some people's harvest? (2) How to prevent to pay that?
Paul Robin Krugman said in Helsinki recently:
"In the coming years, it is fairly obvious that an increasing proportion of the take-home pay of people resident in industrial countries will be used for electricity, fuel, and food bills.
At the same time, the wages and salaries in the western countries will remain the same or even be reduced, as the number of jobless people is high and the pay level is lower in the developing countries that are competing with the western economic area."
Does he mean we are to have a stagflation soon? I seem to see the early onset even in Finland now. Hum, how to protect ourselves from the damage if true?
here is my analysis on krugman text:
"In the coming years, it is fairly obvious that an increasing proportion of the take-home pay of people resident in industrial countries will be used for electricity, fuel, and food bills."
- Consumption of non essential good will decrease as aproportion of essential one. A change of attitude is operating from a consuming society to a responsible one maybe even (let's dream about it) an envrionment friendly consumers...
-Purchasing power will plummet and only essential need can be covered...purchasing power will decrease because of incompetence in the government and its inability to tackle pension liabilities hence higher taxes to fuel a welfare state. The consumer become a milky cow (not any more a shining star)
"At the same time, the wages and salaries in the western countries will remain the same or even be reduced, as the number of jobless people is high and the pay level is lower in the developing countries that are competing with the western economic area"
-Clear shift of power from the west to Asia...Europe willget older and less competitive, inovative and productive while the Asian tiger economies become the center of gravity of the new economical stage.
-Deflation, salary deflation followed by asset deflation is only at his onset...one could associate that with the Krondatief winter... I will call that a typical long finnish winter that could last one or two generations (in the most pessimistic way)...
To answer the question of anonymous 1 :
Where will the current economy go and, who will pay the costs for some people's harvest?
The path is clear and is downward...the massive stimulus has only brought forward future growth in order to stop an economy that was in a freefall...and you are right, they somehow destroyed the potential economical growth that would have had happen...
Who will pay the cost? the youth...
How to prevent to pay that?
do you mean, how you would avoid to pay for them??
-stop working, you won't pay tax ;->
-keep working, in a country that has good behaviour in term tax fairness, and economical decision...Finland is clearly not part of that, unfortunately especially all the corruption scandals that shows you that the lobbies were more or less in control.
-become a priest, albeit a good one
-become a politicians, albeit not a corrupt one
-become a singer, albeit a romantic one
-become a better person, stop living for consumption, stop considering material above real values, stop watching YLE, reading brain washing newspaper like "metro"
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