The big corporations rule the world

How are the big corporations any better than the old empires, kings, queens, popes or any other person that ruled the world before? They enslaved the population, so do the big corporation. Is part of the human race ment to be slaves to the rich? I am just wondering. I do not really enjoy this world of ours. There are not equal opportunities for men and women, class, ethnic background and such. Not as long as we continue differentiating people by gender, by age, by looks, by ethnic inheritance, by social class, by richness and so on. All those things actually show us that we are not equal. A cleaner is payed 12000 SEK per month for a full-time job in Sweden. Some might even get less. Some do not even get full-time jobs. A mall 1 room apartment can kost 5000 SEK. 12000 SEK is what the cleaner has before taxes. So you can figure out the numbers your self. Tax is dependent on the area where you live. The better the neighbourhood the lower the tax is almost always true (those that are rich enough get additional taxes). As a cleaner you probably need to live in a bad neighbourhood… otherwise you probably can’t afford it. So you get higher tax. This is Sweden’s tax system.

Well, anyway, the cleaner has a low status job, but is very important. Due to the cleaner the company or organisation can have healthier staff that get sick less. With that said, not everyone can do cleaning, some are allergic, others have problems in limbs and some do not have the eye for cleaning. So when someone says anyone can do that job – they are wrong. There are good and bad cleaners out there.

Well, companies that have a lot of cleaners have managers on the top. Some are really big corporations. They earn money on each one of these cleaners, otherwise they wouldn’t be in business, would they? Well, anyway, the owners are rich on the top of the food chain. They can live in luxury and have big boats and awesome homes. Some can afford to be eco-friendly and build giant eco-friendly houses for themselves. They can have enormous estates and get richer and richer each day. Until the day they feel bad and start doing charity. Instead of higher salary to the workers they make foundations. From those people have to apply for money. The founder of the foundations can pick and choose to their liking.

There is no foundation for paying off student loans for us workers. So even if you been to the university and done your homework some of these people still end up cleaning your shit up at your company. Some have higher education than you. Some are treated good, but some are treated bad. Some people behave like the cleaners are not worth the same. Others behave like the cleaners are the same as they. There are people for everything.

Well. Anyway. You buy stuff. You might also be short on money. Since the cleaner in Sweden doesn’t earn that much as another person might do, the cleaner must buy cheap. This means someone in the world needs to be even lower paid, so that the cleaner can afford the stuff. Somewhere else in the world that is. So in Asian countries some work for a couple of crowns per day. In Sweden you would get some shewing gum or candy for that money each day. Who can live on that? The person would definitely be poor and have no house. Probably the person wouldn’t even be able to afford a tent. It would have to rely on you or me giving a tent to them. This is reality. Today. NOW! And you and I are part of this system. Want to change it? Enlight people. Chat. Talk. Write. Blog. Recommend sites, films people have made and so on.

So with this to think about I give you this film, from YouTube. Enjoy!

Source: youtu.be/pfrL2DUtmXY

Third eye on young girl..

…on class photo. Not that she has one for real, because she doesn´t. But on the catalouge with all classes she had a third eye in her forehead on all the photo´s of her class.

As compensation the company sent out a new catalouge to all students and payed 1500SEK to the girl.

I can imagine that this wasn´t such a nice mistake and the company has no idea of how come this happend. They only retusch is someone has a closed eye or something like that, but in this class there was no such thing.

Well. I am just saying, better having a closed eye than a third eye on a class photo.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15571597.ab

Strange traditions to us, normal to others

Our planet and all its inhabitants continues to amaze me. This time we can get some socialantropological news in DN.se. The story in the article is about a group of people that unberry their dead relatives and dress them in the latest fashion. The country is Indonesia and this happens every 3rd year and the relatives gather to this event.

Strange tradition, might seem odd for many of us? But I can at the same time understand that they want to show the dead their respect by thinking of them too. It´s a way to remember the dead for a long time to come. For Swedes that follow tradition they light candles at home or/and at the grave yard at “Allehelgona”-weekend. That is the Swedish weekend each year for the rememberence of our dead.

Within the subject of social antropology you get to know about cultures and how they differ from us. After studies in the subject one area to work with is beeing a social antropologist. Many times they travel and live with the different cultures in order to document the cultures view on life, family, culture, life, death, love, birth, maturity etcetera. They study what is important for the culture and certain traditions. Its a interesting subject and you get to know about some very different views on life and what is a family and what is important for that culture.

Well, earth is full of other perspectives than yours and mine. And who is to say your view on life is more right than anothers?

Source 20120826:

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/har-far-de-doda-nya-klader