Since I was a little kid I had a tendency towards the philosophy. Although, I recently graduated as a M.S. in IT, I always had trouble with exact sciences. But I have a curious nature and from time to time I fuse some ideas.
The key points of the discussion:
Demography
I think about demography. We already are so many on this Earth. But that is not an accident. Human societies are based on solidarity. Solidarity works if the population stays at the same level or gets larger. In a shrinking population, the solidarity produces collapse. I observe some tendencies towards the disruption of solidarity, but nevertheless, the countries that have a shrinking population struggle with the adverse effects of the solidarity.
Business Models
The more educated people are, the worst is for businesses. You see, a big chunk of all the businesses are based on demand from the uneducated people. An educated human requires higher salary and better products and services. Businesses should move around the people and not people around the businesses. The businesses that do not adapt will and should die. A lot of business holders complain that the society is not providing adequate qualified work force they need in their businesses. People don’t owe them anything, their business model is outdated and their thinking is remnant from times of slavery. They want people to lack education, so they can pay them miserable salaries and have them do miserable jobs. Otherwise, they need to invest in high end technologies to do these tasks and pay a lot more the people who develop and maintain these technologies.
Licensing
Licensing is a restriction in the path of the natural need of sharing we the humans have. Licensing is against us by some of us. It’s a barrier that stifles innovation and tempers our education. The tendency to protect the knowledge exists in our societies since forever because of our selfishness and the feeling of power it provides. Copyright is the worst form of licensing, protecting income of few against the rest of us. Licenses that grant freedom, are there to combat copyright, basically stating that a thing is not to be copyrighted.
I have just seen the Assassination of a High School President. The film is ok, but what is more interesting is the sound of the movie. I have created a playlist in my grooveshark widget with it: Stellastarr*, Goldfrapp, Band of Horses and many others. It's a world of music out there that is hidden by the media outlets that play over and over again the same crap.
Note: A media outlet is a publication or broadcast program that transmits feature stories and news to the public through various distribution channels.
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