Take Back Your Brain!

Fight the corporations with their own weapons! Lynn from takebackyourbrain.com suggests running your own personalised campaigns to compete for your own attention and money!

I left this comment:

Hiya Lynn, great blog concept! I just read it all, every post! This idea of carrying a conversation starter is inspired! Your best.

My only quarrel would be with the posts where you talk about buying things as personal advertising successes. They may be successes for you but for the reader they blemish the TakeBackYourBrian.com offering.

But posts about overcoming injury and motivation are superb.

Keep up the good work! Mat

Don’t Abolish all Interest

Both Robert and the 7th signatory argue valid points but this issue is more complex.

If you were to lend say $1000, you would want some kind of reward for risking the loan and hopefully your borrower would want to pay you back in full and reward you with a little something to say thanks.

So interest is no bad thing because no-one wants to borrow all the money in the world, only some of it.

The problem is that all the money in the world has been created (printed) and then lent to us through our governments.

So it turns out that collectively, we have borrowed all the money in the world and we have to pay interest to the creators that is impossible to pay because the money to pay was not created.

So only interest added when money is created should be abolished.

Robotic Waste Collector

Dustbot – What a great concept! A fleet of automated units that run around town collecting waste on demand.

Late Retirement Propaganda

Developed nations face a major demographic problem – Lots of old people on pensions but few young people paying for pensions. The result is huge hole in the funds to pay for pensions.

So what do governments do? They have to force us to work later into life. 10 years extra here in the uk.

This keep working ‘to avoid dementia’ article is the first that I’ve noticed that try’s to put a good spin on working till we drop.

Expect more!

Sign this!