French politics - If you make life miserable for the business man he will move to other places.
Automation - There is a slow destruction of jobs everywhere. You can delay but you can't avoid it completely.
Result: Politics rotation. Each Government is not re-elected ever. The other party just have to wait.
From the WSJ
It is so difficult to be in the top 100 in any sport in the world. However only the top seeded players make real money. This happens in business & in Sports. The nº1 makes 10 times what the nº32 makes. I don't want to look at nº100............
I guess with sponsorship the difference should be even bigger. It pays to be completely crazy during some years to be nº1 whatever it costs. To be nº 100 in the world you have to work hard. To be nº 1 you have to be maniac. Normal people are nº100 or less.
In business is the same thing:
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
It's not only in Tennis is in everything.................
Burger King Defends Plan to Buy Tim Hortons
If there is no growth the only guy who makes money is the nº1
The strategy of Burger King is to cut costs & cut costs but that goes only so far.... they need to Buy Tim Horton's and squeeze the costs of them.
If the PE of the market is 20 if they cut 1 b of costs they will increase the value of the company by 20 b!! That is their plan, no better products, no better brand, nothing just to cut costs.
The BOOM Festival ! Once every 2 years only!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6fEWTg5FAY
Boom's main focus is to integrate a sustainability ethos with arts and culture. By design, it does not provide corporate entertainment or sponsors. The key goal is to provide a transformational festival for people of different ethnic backgrounds, nationality and ages. In its own words, "Boom is not only a festival, it is a state of mind. Inspired by the principles of Oneness, Peace, Creativity, Sustainability, Transcendence, Alternative Culture, Active Participation, Evolution and Love, it is a space where people from all over the world can converge to experience an alternative reality." The festival is entirely funded by ticket sales. It does not use corporate sponsors, which eliminates marketing that is seen as visual pollution.
Well i don't know why people go but apparently the Festival is a big success, all tickets (35,000) are sold out well in advance of the Festival. People come form all over the world. From the videos i guess people want to escape from our world. During 10 days people really escape! Peace & Love.
For people who want to escape from our world Portugal has also a different offer. If you buy a house in the mountains in Portugal you can get:
1.Cheap house
2.Beautifull envoirment & decent weather. Wild Horses near your door.
3.Local neighbors that you can exchange products with
4.You can have your cattle that goes to the field on their own in the morning and come back at night to their stables (They don't get confused)
5.You can buy or cook your own bread
6.You can have a bit of civilization with internet
7.Decent & cheap Hospitals at 50 km
8.A church
9.You can go to restaurants very cheaply
10.You can invite you family & friends in a very cheap way for some unforgetable hollidays
11.You can live in harmony with nature.
12.You can bath in a river with very cold water and drink it while you bath
You can have your AYN RAND world in a easy way. In the country side you have to produce anything and trade with your neighbors. There is no state to fund you. If you don't work you are not respected.
I guess people call this Downshifting!
Downshifting is a social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape from the rat race of obsessive materialism and to reduce the “stress, overtime, and psychological expense that may accompany it”.[1] It emphasizes finding an improved balance between leisure and work[2] and focusing life goals on personal fulfillment and relationship building instead of the all-consuming pursuit of economic success.
Workers always lose, Economics always wins!
Technology get’s better, cheaper and faster in a way biology can’t match
This is a scary video but it's true!
what is the way out for humans?
I have posted about this in the past
It's the human touch. Be nice with everyone.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
Mark McCormack
A good student (with the same IQ, results, etc...) in Portugal and in Germany has very different prospects.
why?
Because with Globalization & Internet people want the best in the world. In Portugal there are very few products that are sold everywhere in the world. Perhaps corks & some wine. All the rest we buy from the best. My kids want a Playstation, an I-Phone (they don't have), drink Coke, and eat horrible fast food. I want the best bicycle (Specialized) the best shoes (SIDI ), etc... I buy books from Amazon. If i want to learn about Anything i just listen to a video from the best teacher for free online.
With information why not to buy the best in class. The best in the world?
Germans & American companies strive to produce the best in the world, and often they manage it. With size they can afford to do more research and be even better. They can pay and hire the best.
In a small country the local producer that thinks about the local market when their clients get smart is doomed.
Think Global or die. All the companies that think local probably will die when clients get smart.
So the best students in Portugal are moving to work for the best companies in the world even if they work from Portugal. In Portugal we have mostly companies thinking about the Portuguese market & the Portuguese client. And these are shrinking with their business. Almost all Portuguese companies want to let go most of their workforce.
What to do? work in protected industries (no competition from abroad), tourism, hairdresser, mechanic, all things manual or move to work for companies that think Global and are still growing.
Big get Bigger is the name of the Game.
There are almost no BIG companies in small countries. There was NOKIA (not anymore) and some other miracles but unfortunately the BIG get Bigger is not stopping!
Get Lucky means to move to places where to have a good job is not a miracle just normal.
to do that you must work for a company that was a good product or a good brand (probably both)
PS You can stay in your country & represent some foreign product that is going to kill the local producer (almost forgot this classic business)
If you are a good football player like FIGO & Ronaldo both from my club SPORTING Lisbon if you want to make money and win the champions it's better to move to the clubs that want to win everything. And they will. Like in Business BIG get Bigger is the trend in Football.
2 explanations here.
