All around me » Ideas http://carkod.com A personal blog Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:15:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Time is money http://carkod.com/time-is-money http://carkod.com/time-is-money#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:41:06 +0000 admin http://carkod.com/?p=260 timeismoneyI was thinking why is money so important? People think that money is everything they can have in order to have a happy life. However, I think that in order to have a happy life you don’t have to have a lot of money, though my perspective is different. I’m not saying that concepts such love, friendship, family, health are more important than materialism. My point is that money equals time in our life.

For example. A person works to earn a wage. That person is in fact buying some time for him. A person who earns a wage is certainly giving away his time to another person who in exchange gives him a wage. The worker uses this money for himself, to make purchases, for leisure, that is for spending time for himself. So actually the cycle is “I give away time (work) to accumulate time for myself (leisure)”.

With that in mind, we could probably think that money isn’t worth a penny, it doesn’t have an intrisic value, what matters in life is time. Use your time cautiously, it’s worth more than money!

]]> http://carkod.com/time-is-money/feed 0 An international country http://carkod.com/an-international-country http://carkod.com/an-international-country#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:17:11 +0000 admin http://carkod.com/?p=3 I always wanted to live in an international country, with a diversity of cultures, where everyone is accepted as he/she is and at least be more tolerable than many conservative countries. Unfortunately, I’m pretty aware that such dream has no path to reality, even if we had a country with similar characteristics many other bad things would bloom, life with too different people will cause a lot of controversy and it would be a really hard job for politicians.

However, nowadays most countries have emigrants, and we probably could say we are in a converging era, converging economies, converging financial systems, converging cultures… many things are converging globally and making every place more and more heterogeneous. Speaking in a smaller magnitude, people are everyday more aware of things happening internationally, they even get interested in foreign affairs, get married with foreign people or even play soccer for world’s peace. morally, the world in general is more aware of human ethics and rights, plus advances in technology make us live better and hate less. This way, coexistence is easier.

With this I don’t want to make an statement of the good or the bad in the world. As everything it has its pros and cons, of course there are a lot of problems and issues I didn’t mention but I think we are doing well enough to cite it. Additionally I personally think this is a very interesting topic for debating, so I hope people can write some thoughts for a better and more tolerable world without going deep into politics (please).

Here, to pull the trigger I’m gonna ask you for some countries you consider more international, more heterogeneous and better to live as an emigrant. Among my candidates are:

  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Thailand
  • Canada
  • Norway

Those are my personal selection, I chose them looking at some data such income per capita and emigration flows. Futurely, I’m going to make a poll with the most chosen countries.

One world, one dream.

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