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13 Utilitarianism http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
Utilitarianism
is a moral theory that argues that actions should be judged right or wrong to
the extent they increase or decrease human well-being or 'utility' and
according to this, there are quite a few villains out there that should
disappear and they would do so much good by just moving off into the sunset…
George
Bernard Shaw was saying at one time about Hitler that he was a good speaker,
and kept on with the impressive achievements, but concluded that it would have
been so much better for humanity had he never been born, and that would be true
about Putin, Trump, Bolsanaro – arguably, given that he says Zelensky is just
as guilty for the invasion of Ukraine as Putin, Lula would be included here –
Xi, Kim of North Korea, Maduro and so many others…
In 1990, I
was lucky to continue working for mass media, and that was my good start or
just a brake for another, alternative life – let us say I had not worked for
Helsingin, The Globe and The Mail, Radio Sweden, then I would stay in my lane,
or maybe tried some other enterprise and avoid the blind alley where I have ended
now…
After all,
those who have graduated in geology, even more so more so for geophysics (where
I have a diploma) would go on to make incredible amounts of money, granted, if
they have been willing to travel and endure the climate, mosquitoes, perils of
war, danger of attacks from fundamentalists and all sort of privations, they
could make up to twenty thousand dollars per month, perhaps in the middle of
the ocean on a deep oil drill…
As it was,
the chance to make one hundred dollars and more per day looked and was
fabulous, even if it eventually came down to twenty per day, when the arrangement
covered a longer period, in the case of Radio Sweden, which had sent Christina
Nylander down here, and she had me as her assistant for a couple of months or
six weeks…
Then of
course, later on, doing ‘part time’ work for AT&T, this would decrease even
further, for this multinational mastodon would just pay 250 per month to begin
with and a maximum of 400 at the end, when they would give me two countries to
cover, OMG, my blood is boiling now, as I recall this so I better stop…
And
continue…and they expected a lot of fucking work for that – talk of sweat shops
– to travel to all the countries around and far away, to represent them with
dignity at Am Cham and other (all) meetings, and with money for suits
(presumably not taken out from the garbage piles), ties, shoes and deodorant -
or stinking to high heaven or hell would be an indication that Greed is good,
we are talking Wall Street meanness here, just like Gordon Gecko aka Michael
Douglas in the celebrated, quintessential motion picture http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/08/wall-street-written-by-stanley-weiser.html
Working
from the Intercontinental Hotel also opened another door, when the marketing
manager over there offered me a few tours to work with, and one in particular,
taking travelers with The Smithsonian around would send me on the path to
the…US Embassy, which was just across the street back then.
One guest
with The Smithsonian liked what I did and said and since he had a good friend
in the embassy, he called him and arranged a meeting, which took place, but
without obvious consequences when it happened.
Later
though, the spouse of the Chief of The Economic Section, Mr. Flowers, Norie
Flowers would call me to arrange for trips and then we were on a roll, Jesus,
Mary and Joseph, she would have bus tours around the country and at the same
time, she would give my number to numerous visitors and then business was good.
On the
other hand, forced to look for alternatives, maybe I would have tried to look
for (even better) alternatives and perhaps try to partner with Danny O (the dude
who is maybe one of the top 20 richest, surely among the top 50) and a tiny few
percentages out of that massive beano would still mean I would have ten times
what I do now…this is wrong though – ‘Wealth - any income that is at least one
hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband…H
L Mencken…
On some
levels, the life I have now could be seen as close to perfect, or even that, if
such a thing exists, in that the mountain of cash does not sit in the living
room or anywhere on the premises, in a bank account or buried somewhere, but I
now have Balzac on my shoulder, and I do not mean the ghost of the rather
heavy, splendid writer – who might be a burden, even in ethereal form, given
the size and tonnage of the author –but the blue and gold macaw of that name,
and besides, there is also Puccini, his brother in arms, the red and green
macaw, who is roaming around the room and when they are not a pain, screaming
or defecating over the place, they can be an absolute joy that cash cannot buy…
Well, it
actually does, and one of them was about thirteen hundred dollars, and the
other about one thousand, so they do not come exactly cheap, albeit regarded as
pets, they can be seen as an investment, for they live five or six times longer
than a dog, depending on the breed, a giant one would only last ten to twelve
years, so a macaw should cost five times more than a dog of that kind, and I
did pay one thousand for a borzoi…
You have a
life time companion with one of those, the problem being exactly that, the
benefit is also the drawback; what do you do with them after you die, who is
going to take care of them, and before that, if you have some like mine, and
you use them with your continual presence, then you are trapped…but it is such
a sweet imprisonment…sometimes
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