A check every month without doing nothing

The Swiss will vote next Sunday about a check every month to every soul ? 

why? People are realizing that in the automated world you only need 20% or 30% of the world population to work in order to have everything we need.  If you have a machine that cooks and cleans your house why hire a house maid? I think the world is not yet prepared but it will come.

you have to sustain people , because they are not needed anymore? it's a big big problem. Perhaps a cheaper and less problematic solution is to pay a check only for people above 60 years old. This way the labor market would not be impacted.



Work, as Lawrence Katz of Harvard once pointed out, is not just what people do for a living. It is a source of status. It organizes people’s lives. It offers an opportunity for progress. None of this can be replaced by a check.
Eduardo Porter
ECONOMIC SCENE
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Balanced life ? not possible

by James Clear

Read this on JamesClear.com

There is a concept known as The Four Burners Theory. Here’s how it was first explained to me:
Imagine that your life is represented by a stove with four burners on it. Each burner symbolizes one major quadrant of your life.
1.     The first burner represents your family.
2.    The second burner is your friends.
3.    The third burner is your health.
4.    The fourth burner is your work.
The Four Burners Theory says that "in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two." [1]

This is obviously true, if you are one of the best in the world in anything you leave some (many) areas of your life behind.

You can't do the 4 successfully at the same time. My advice is to concentrate when you work you work really hard and leave behind the other 3 a bit, when you do sports do it for real. when you are with your family & kids don't multitask.

that is my strategy, when i am doing something i concentrate everything on that area we don't have time do all at the same time.



more about the same:

http://thoughtmeme.blogspot.pt/2014/02/forget-about-balanced-life.html
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Sell the Problem




This is so true. you just have to call the attention of your prospect for a problem that he may not know he has. Just do that and you have a fat chance of making a sale.

yes your first job is to sell the problem. If there is no problem why to buy a solution?
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key lesson for a cyclist ! Protect the Chain

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This is a pic from @PedroCardoso2016
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Happy 8th place

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@Pedrocardoso2016
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last stage

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Why live in miserable and grey LONDON?

From Simon Kuper , FT

When people talk about the vibrancy of modern London, they tend to mean central London (known in the local transport vocabulary as “Zone 1”). But beyond that is what Doris Lessing in her novel The Golden Notebook (1962) called “London in its faceless peripheral wastes”.
She writes: “The street of grey, mean little houses crawled endlessly. The grey light of a late summer’s evening lowered a damp sky. For miles in all directions, this ugliness, this meanness. This was London — endless streets of such houses. It was hard to bear, the sheer physical weight of the knowledge because — where was the force that could shift the ugliness?”
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No wonder that Londoners — despite having the UK’s highest incomes — report the joint-lowest life satisfaction of any English region and the joint-lowest sense that “things we do in life are worthwhile”. Most Londoners aren’t tired of London but they are exhausted by it.
Leaving aside the super-rich, London works best for young adults. It’s a good place to start building a CV, to find a mate among the endless assortment on offer and then to leg it before you’re sharing your bedroom with a baby.
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The logical thing to do (presuming Brexit doesn’t happen) is to arbitrage the two: live on the Med and work for a London company. This will be an obvious decision for the next generation of knowledge workers, for whom the concept of a daily commute to an office will probably seem baffling.

I am on this i would love to live in Lisbon and work for a London company and eventually pay London taxes!  Yes there are some cities where you would only live there to make money. Is this possible to part time in London and have the weekend house in a better country!

i think it's difficult.



http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8d8540dc-1703-11e6-9d98-00386a18e39d.html
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