Greece implemented capital controls, now China is doing it - desperate measures. Could we be headed for the next global financial crisis? Read more → The post Episode 62 – Global Crisis: A False Economy appeared first on the paradise paradox.
The Episode: To download the audio, right click and press “save as”. Remember to subscribe on iTunes or subscribe on Pocket Casts. If you enjoyed the episode, don’t keep it a secret! Feel free to share it on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, or your office bathroom wall. The Cash: We really appreciate all of your contributions! Every cent and satoshi… Read more → The post Episode 61 – Hidden Forest Secret Garden appeared first on the paradise paradox.
We've encountered corrupt cops, and even in quiet regional towns in Australia, it can be dangerous. What are the causes of this type of behaviour? Read more → The post Episode 60 – Fuck The Police appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Many people are content to cruise through life without being as honest as they possibly can with the man in the mirror. What can we gain from self-analysis? Read more → The post Episode 59 – Personal Development: The Critical Point appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Employers have a profit motive. So why don't they charge a million dollars for a pizza? And why don't they pay everyone minimum wage? Read more → The post Pizzanomics: The Minimum Wage appeared first on the paradise paradox.
There's a lot of talk floating around about September, with the Hebrew calendar culminating in the Shemitah, astrology leading us to believe that the divine masculine and feminine are moving in harmony, asteroids crashing into the earth, the Pope addressing the US congress, the Freemasons' "Year of the Light", the Federal Reserve expounding their interest rate policy going forward, and CERN powering up the Large Hadron Collider to full-bore. Read more → The post Episode 58 – Septembe...
A little research shows marijuana may have positive effects. Are those positive effects present in the hood? Read more → The post Episode 57 – Dragon’s Breath Adventures appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Cuba is Cuba! There is no other! A real human life time capsule. Cuba is known for its cigars, old cars, beautiful women, and suppressed economic state... Read more → The post Episode 56 – Cubanitos & Cuba with Niki and Rav appeared first on the paradise paradox.
It's never my intention to initiate a violent revolution, a coup d'état, to take up arms to dominate people, in the hopes of freeing people. The reason being, you can never free people who don't want to be free - who don't even know what it means to be free. Like a brainwashed prisoner when his cage's door is opened, he will cramp himself in the corner, and cower. A free man is a free man even when inside a cage. A true slave will find a master, even when he is released. For truly meaningful cha...
In 1959 two men had a dream to create a business that would provide useful services and a way for many people to engage in the glory of free enterprise in owning their very own business. Those two men were Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos, and that business was Amway – short for “American Way”. Read more → The post Episode 54 – Network Marketing appeared first on the paradise paradox.
In 2007, two graphic designers were having troubles making ends meet in their San Francisco apartment. They had some space that they could free up in the loft which they thought they could use to accommodate travellers, and thought about putting it on Craigslist, but they thought it was too impersonal. Read more → The post Episode 53 – AirBNB & Travel appeared first on the paradise paradox.
The Panopticon was a well-crafted piece of architecture which allowed just a couple of guards to watch an entire prison. The prisoners never knew exactly when they were being watched, but they always knew that the potential was there. Read more → The post Episode 52 – The Panopticon & Your Privacy: Juan Galt appeared first on the paradise paradox.
If you've always lived in a developed country such as Australia, the UK or Norway, you might have the impression that everything is going well, and that the government's laws are there to help you. Maybe you have the impression that your country's currency is safe, as "sound as a pound", and maybe, if you're an extremist, have the view that it's morally wrong to do anything without first asking your government's permission. Read more → The post Episode 51 – Business Time: The Cardroo...
In 2008, an unknown, man, women or team going by the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" released some code to a cryptography mailing list, informing the small group of nerds that he had created something interesting, and say they should use it if they liked it, giving birth to the world of "cryptocurrency". Read more → The post Episode 50 – Ethereum & The Future: Juan Galt appeared first on the paradise paradox.
A man steps off an aeroplane in a foreign country, with little more than a few bags, a few changes of clothes. This man is no stranger to foreign countries, having travelled through his own country as a child, with his belongings stuffed in the back of a Mazda MQ, and just recently has skipped from the beaches of Sri Lanka to the ghettoes of Los Angeles. Read more → The post Episode 49 – Charlie Carlos appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Living in the USA, the media bombards you with stories telling you that you should accept immigrants, or that you should be afraid of immigrants stealing your welfare benefits. When trapped in a limited media FOX/CNN right/left propaganda paradigm, it may be difficult to overlook the fact that more and more people are deciding to leave the USA and never come back. Read more → The post Episode 48 – The French Arizonian Mexican: Taylor Alan appeared first on the paradise paradox.
The Volkswagen Beetle was and is a fine example of German engineering. It has just the bare minimum amount of moveable parts, was built to last, and still lives up to its name as "The People's Car". Adolf Hitler first commissioned the Beetle in 1934, and the design was completed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1938. Many models, 30 years old and even older, are still running in many countries, especially in third world countries, and Mexico is no exception. The Mexicans, saving the hassle of trying to p...
On the fifth of July, the people of Greece voted in a referendum on whether to accept new austerity measures, or to reject them. When the people voted no, there was footage of people celebrating in the streets, and it was hailed as a democratic success. Have the Greek people really succeeded in anything by this referendum? Or did they just get the democratic choice of the colour of rope which will be used to hang them? Read more → The post Episode 46 – The Dox News Box July 2015 appe...
The year is 2005. Brad Greenspan, Tom Anderson and their team of dedicated programmers have built an empire using a relatively new method of communication and social interaction - a social media website, a medium allowing people to connect and interact with people all over the world sharing common interests, to make new friends, and to advertise their companies and bands. In July, he sells the company to News Corporation for $580 million. Read more → The post Episode 45 – Right In Yo...
The year is 400 ACE. A scholar dutifully reads Sanskrit from a decaying fern leaf, contemplating the words, arranging them within the forefront of the mind, and again writing them in fine caligraphy onto another leaf. The scholar couldn't have known that even more than a thousand years later, people would be referring to those words and the wisdom contained within. That scholar's name was Patañjali, and the words are known as the Yoga Sutras. Read more → The post Episode 44 – Down at...
Here's a quick episode to tell you a few little stories about our continuing adventures in Mexico. Kurt went looking for a new room to rent, and had a few surprises. He also had an intimate encounter with a huge moth. Aaron became a Mexican citizen, and had some problems with his mother-in-law's prejudices. Read more → The post Episode 43.5 – Naturalised appeared first on the paradise paradox.
It's the 1920s in Russia. The reporter Solomon Shereshevsky goes to a meeting with his colleagues and his boss. On this day, Shereshevsky has forgotten his notebook, and he makes no notes during the meeting. His boss is dictating a complicated assignment and notices that Shereshevsky is not taking notes. Read more → The post Episode 43 – Extraordinary Abilities appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Do you remember your school days? If you're like most people, you don't reflect on the past too much. You could go through your life not winding your mind back to your time in a very strange place, a very different place. Depending on which country you grew up in, perhaps you had to go to school - maybe you were coerced into going to school. Maybe it was made clear to you that there just wasn't any other choice. You might have gone through 10 or 13 years of your life, going to school every day w...
The Internet. Our own international communication system. A portal of personal access to a platform of freedom, at least it used to be, perhaps the collective still believe that... Read more → The post Episode 41 – Deep Web Confessions appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Most children dream of a trip to Disneyland, or visiting Santa at the North Pole, or maybe being locked in a super toy store over night. We are all big kids and we should all be active dreamers. It took me too long to complete my dream of taking the journey to Tulum, Mexico. I had plans to go in 2008 and 2012, but cheap thrills and weak distractions would always somehow get the better of me. Not this time - 2015 is and was the year. Read more → The post Episode 40 – Tulum Time Machin...
We are about to enter an age of unseen prosperity. For years we have been seeing the prices of high technology decrease incredibly rapidly – with an item reducing to a third of its price within a few short years – even to the extent that smartphones and tablets are available to many people, even in developing nations. Read more → The post The Age of Automation appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Sun is shining, birds chirping, the distant hum of neighbours mowing their lawns and the ringing of a little bell. "Lemonade, come and get your lemonade!" shouted by two young girls. We can see the image - harmless entrepreneurship at work. "Fresh delicious lemonade, only one dollar!" shouted by your 10 year old daughter accompanied by her best friend, Sarah. Read more → The post Episode 39 – Government is Force appeared first on the paradise paradox.
Before the fall of the USSR, the medical system in Moscow was completely controlled by the state. The price calculation problem rendered the managers of hospitals and the medical industry as a whole, unable to determine how many beds, how many doctors and how many medical supplies were necessary to treat the patients. This lead to all sorts of perverse results. In 1987, minister of health Yevgeny Chazov found that 40% of newly graduated doctors couldn't read a cardiogram. Newborns would receive ...
The French government declares that no supermarket can legally throw out food that could go to charity, and you applaud. I won't deny that it is novel, but can it ever be moral? Read more → The post The French Charity Law appeared first on the paradise paradox.
The Episode: To download the audio, right click and press “save as”. Remember to subscribe on iTunes or subscribe on Pocket Casts. If you enjoyed the episode, don’t keep it a secret! Feel free to share it on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, or on the ceiling of your basement dungeon. The Cash: We really appreciate all of your contributions! Every… Read more → The post Episode 37 – A Moral Compass appeared first on the paradise paradox.
