Trump wants Germany to spend more on weapons – because in his minds – it’s all about money. And USA is spending too much and Germany is spending too little against “the threat”.
Map of Nato
“Great”.
But at the same time – he realizes that USA is losing the globalization-trade-game with Germany (better cars) and China (cheaper cars) – so he does not want to trade with Germany or China anymore.
This brings us to the ultimate problem: Trade imbalances between countries – that can not print their own currency. (Greece can not, Germany can not… the ECB is in Frankfurt but it is political “independent” and when 2008 hit and Sarkozy asked the ECB-Ceo to print money to save the banks – because ultimately it’s a banking-crisis – the ECB-Ceo Trichet said “no” and shifted the burden to the tax payer with fatal consequences and looming state-bankruptcy)
Our governments and lifes are so “market” (whoever has or prints money) dependent to the extent of maximum absurdity.
Greece has massive trade imbalance with Germany and is so much in debt – it won’t ever repay.
The Greeks may very well halt payback of their credit by 40-50-100 years and just start printing their own money again or revert back to metal coins of intrinsic value.
“US President Donald Trump can impose a 25 percent tariff on European car imports, which would hit European, and especially German, car manufacturers hard.”
gesellschaftliches Engagement und Sozialkompetenz unter den Rahmenbedingungen der (Assozialen)Marktwirtschaft: (scroll down until you reach – the English version)
natürlich: Wenn man dem Chef zur falschen Zeit (in einer Zeit konstanter Krisen ist es immer die falsche Zeit) ein evtl. sogar ein gut gemeintes, wahres Wort sagt – riskiert man die Kündigung – also lässt Man(n)/Frau (Angestellter) es.
Das Engagement eines Mitarbeiters in einem Betrieb wird vielfach – nicht nur nicht wertgeschätzt – sondern oft auch bestraft – habe ich vielfach erlebt – mach ja nicht mehr wie unbedingt nötig und frag ja nicht mehr nach wie unbedingt nötig – assoziiere Dich auf keinen Fall mit dem Betrieb – in dem es nur um Posten, Macht, Geld, Profit-Maximierung und Effizienz geht.
Alle Beziehungen auch die privaten zwischen Familie, Freunden, Partner, Ehepartner, Menschen wird auf das materielle reduziert – der Mensch vereinsamt und verwahrlost geistig, seelisch, sozial und emotional.
Menschen wissen nicht mehr – wie man Kommuniziert – was sich gehört und was sich nicht gehört in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen / Ehen / Freundschaften / Bindungen – dass man Freundschaften pflegen muss – dass es ohne Respekt und Höflichkeit nicht geht.
Kurz: Ein Puff / ein Betrieb ist ein Verein – in dem es nicht um zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen sondern um’s Geld und nur um’s Geld geht. Die Psyche ist dabei eher “störend” bzw. lästiger aber am Ende doch entscheidender Faktor – weil alle Menschen unterliegen ihrer Psyche und auch ihres Unterbewusstseins – egal wie sehr diese sich bemühen diese Wahrheit zu ignorieren.
Ignorieren von Wahrheit hat sowieso keine Nachhaltigkeit – aber noch geht es ja (grad noch so).
Ohne sozial kompetente, respektvolle Kommunikation wird die Kooperation massiv erschwert wenn nicht sogar verhindert.
Auf gut Deutsch: Ohne respektvolles Miteinander kommt keine Kooperation zustande – wird die Kooperation sabotiert – Betriebsabläufe lahmen oder kommen durch innerlichen Streik zum erliegen oder werden sabotiert.
Seltsamerweise – und daran sieht man wie ausgegoren die Dummheit dieses Systems “Geld” und “Kapitalismus” eigentlich ist – weil genau darauf eigentlich keiner wirklich wert legt.
Einmal habe ich im Radio gehört: “Was braucht man in der Ausbildung zum Raumausstatter?” “Sozialkompetenz”
Ich dachte mich trifft der Schlag. Das kann doch nicht wahr sein – unglaublich! Ist die Menschheit doch intelligent?
Soziale Kompetenzen sind ein vom “Geld” massiv vernachlässigter Faktor, der aber vielfach entscheidend ist für zwischenmenschliche Kooperation (neben Macht-Überlebens-Zwängen), es bedeutet einfach nur wieder: dem Geld ist der Mensch selbst eigentlich egal.
Dem Geld ist soziale Kompetenz egal, dem Geld sind Familien, Freundschaften, Ehen egal.
Aber Kooperation, Familien und Freundschaften und Ehen sind für die Menschheit entscheidend.
Was wiederum bedeutet dieses Geldsystem sabotiert die Überlebensfähigkeit der Menschheit.
Scheinbar ein Faktor – der gesellschaftspolitisch so “träge” (schwer veränderbar) ist, dass man diesen offensichtlichen Missstand als “won’t fix” “nicht behebbar” bezeichnen muss? FRAGEZEICHEN? (ich versuche es natürlich trotzdem immer wieder… besonders frustrierend ist wenn die eigene Familie sich als hartnäckig beratungsresistent erweist)
English:
social commitment and social skills (InterHumanCompetence) in the framework of the (antisocial) market economy:
of course – pissing off the boss will get you fired – i have seen it – one psychological hurtfull word at the wrong time (in a time of constant crisis there is almost no right time for even the most well ment words) will get you fired faster than you can say “snapchat”.
The commitment of an employee in a company is often not only not appreciated – but often punished – I have seen many more do not more than is strictly necessary and do not ask more questions than absolutely necessary, it has psychologically often profen devastating for an employee to associate her/himself with the company, because at the end of the day it’s all about positions, influence/manipulation(cheating, lies, fakes), power, money, profit-maximization and efficiency – classic capitalism.
All relationships are between family, friends, partners, spouses, people is reduced to the material level – which bad sideffects for man: lonelyness, social and mental neglected, emotionally neglect, emotionally neglect.
People no longer know how to communicate properly with each other in respectfull ways – people do not know anymore what is appropriate in interhuman relationships / marriages / friendships.
Example: one must cultivate friendships – like a plant needs water every now and then – without respect and courtesy it won’t work.
In short: a bordell / a business / an group of prostitutes is an association – in which it is not about interpersonal relationships but about money and only about money.
The Psyche is rather a “disturbing” or more annoying but ultimately decisive factor – because all people are subject to their Psyche and also to their subconscious mind – no matter how much they try to ignore this truth – it will stay true until the end of mankind.
Ignoring truth is unsustainable.
Without sociall skills, respectful communication, cooperation is massively hampered, if not even prevented.
In other words: without respectful commnication – cooperation is sabotaged – the business comes to an halt.
Oddly enough – this is one symptom – that shows how deranged the stupidity of this system “money” and “capitalism” is – by neglecting those important factors on a massive scale (allmost ALL of mankind).
Once I heard on the Radio: “What do you need in the training of the interior designer?” “Social skills”
I thought – go ahead blow my mind.
That can’t be true – incredible! Is humanity intelligent?
Social skills are a “money” massively neglected factor that is often crucial for human cooperation (in addition to Power-Survival-constraints), it simply means: the money man himself really doesn’t matter.
The money doesn’t matter to social skills, the money doesn’t matter to families, friendships, marriages.
But cooperation, families and friendships and marriages are crucial for humanity.
What, in turn, this money system sabotages humanity’s viability.
Apparently a factor – the socio-political so “sluggish “(difficult to change) is that this obvious maladministration must be described as “won’t fix” “not recoverable”? Question mark?
(of course, I keep trying… especially frustrating is when your family proves to be persistently resistant to advice) (probably poorly auto translated by https://translate.yandex.com/… cause sometimes there is no time at work)
OUTCOMES. Social Competence & Academic Achievement. SYSTEMS. Supporting. Staff Behavior. DATA. Supporting. Decision. Making. Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Graphic. This graphic describes the interplay between the 4 key elements of PBIS. Each element supports the other. Outcomes: academic and behavior targets that are endorsed and emphasized by students, families, & educators. Practices: interventions and strategies that are evidence-based. Data: information that is used to indentify status, need for change, and effects of interventions. Systems: support that are needed to enable the accurate and durable implementation of the practices of PBIS. Systems consider multiple points of support: individual, classroom, school-wide, district, community, state. -From SWPBIS Implementers Blueprint and Self-Assessment (Sugai, et al, 2005) Teams can get a copy of the blueprint at Supporting staff behavior addresses changing adult behavior to change student behavior. Emphasis is usually on practices. Practices are often implemented without systems and data to support them. To maximize effectiveness we must implement all three. PRACTICES. Supporting. Student Behavior. Positive. Behavior. Intervention and. Support.
The big question – which one must face as a primate (ape) is: “Social-IQ” / “Society-IQ”: can humans as a group and even as a bigger group of millions still behave intelligently?
Hunting Mastodon (ancient elephants, “natural prey” of humanoid primates, TOO BIG to be hunted by an individual with a spear) is one thing – but taking care of a whole planet is a much larger thing.
Are humanoid primates able – to play even as “big teams” of millions / are they able to work peacefully / successfully / behave constructively together – or not?
Does it only work in small teams / on small scale?
(democracy in Switzerland and Iceland is way more alive than in EU / USA)
And what does this depend on?
What environment is needed to make it work?
Is it a culture “thing”?
It is pretty clear to me – that this has to do with the presence or absence of consciousness and empathy.
Why should a person when he/she is born in Cuba – studying medicine – earning 60-USD (official unit of trade for the economic zone of North America and their partners, without guaranteed equivalent (like gold)) and 10,000 CUP (currency unit of Cuba’s economic zone without guaranteed equivalent (like 1L of Rum)) – be honest – eat vegetables instead of meat – drive bicycle instead of a car – and stay in Cuba if he/she could earn 6000 USD in New York or London or Malta or some other western country?
Why should he/she not move to “more Dollars”?
Sounds harsh – but I think the problem with Marx was – that he did not study psychology – enough.
The psychology of people seems to be pretty egoistic if you live in capitalism – and i wonder if this is the “natural state” and if Marx massively underestimated this (species wise self destructive) factor.
More US-Dollars means more “access” / more “rights to access” of the trading zone – more access to the resources of this planet – to buy more CocaCola and IPhones – if that is – what makes happy and gives life meaning. (probably not… it is the beginning of even more problems that did not exist in the first place X-D)
has the revolution failed?
one thing first – after the collapse of Cuba’s biggest trading partner – the Soviet Union – it was expected that Cuba would experience famine.
It did not.
Today Cuba has one of the most innovative health care systems and Cuban farm 100% biologically (which means more manual work… but that would be not bad to obese USA and EU citizens).
So no it has NOT completely failed.
Often South American countries look towards Cuba as the “role model” – because they kept their independence from the US-Dollar to this date and nobody died of hunger.
500.000 children could still be alive right now – if Iraq would produce it’s own medicine.
The prices of goods and salaries are adjusted by the government.
There are two currencies to further separate Cubans from foreigners.
Cubans get paid in a currency that is for Cubans only.
With that currency you can purchase goods at government set prices.
The thing is, the government doesn’t really have that many goods to sell in those prices so Cubans usually have to resort to the black market or the free (as if for foreigners) market which have prices closer to international values.
Cubans don’t live through the month with their salaries.
They have additional sources of income that are usually shady or outright illegal.
Doctors get gifts all the time from patients to get better attention.
Farmers are legally bound to sell their whole products to the government, but they usually sell some on the side to get more income.
Some other workers steal food or small stuff from their workplace to get by.
Inspectors usually get bribed to turn a blind eye, so they get their extra from this. It’s all very shady and corrupt, but it’s part of the Cuban life.
The point is, though, that because the economy is centralized, Cubans get access to cheap products, but are also paid very low wages.
Die grosse Frage – die man(n)/Frau sich als Primat(Affe) stellen muss ist: Social-IQ / Society-IQ: Sind Menschen fähig – auch als “große Teams” erfolgreich/konstruktiv zusammen zu arbeiten – oder nicht.
Mir ist schon klar dass das etwas massiv mit Bewusstsein zu tun hat.
Warum sollte ein Mensch, wenn Er/Sie in Kuba zur Welt kommt – dort ein Medizinstudium ableistet – sich mit 60-Währungs-Einheiten der Handelszone Nord-Amerika ohne garantierten Gegenwert (USD) und 10.000-Währungs-Einheite der Handelszone Kuba ohne garantierten Gegenwert (CUP, Cuban Pesos) im Monat (ein sehr guter Verdienst in Kuba aber nicht in New York oder London – zufrieden zu geben?
Warum sollte er nicht “mehr” Dollars?
Klingt hart – aber ich denke Marx hatte die Psychologie des Menschen – und dessen scheinbar sehr ausgeprägten Egoismus – nicht ganz auf dem (Bild)Schirm oder hat diese grob fahrlässig unterschätzt.
Mehr Rechte auf globale Ressourcen und die daraus produzierten IPhone-Güter haben? / Einfordern?
Welche Art von gesellschaftlichem Betriebsystem wäre nötig?
