25 gennaio 2010

Lately I find myself thinking about money.

The crisis is making me crazy. What is it, someone has understood seroiusly something? I'm not going to face a phd degree in financial economics to get a glimpse of what is happening because it has no logical sense.

So, very disgusted to see that billions of human are being grope in poverty and that the resources of the planet are sacrificed just because the money don't have a linear logic, I invented a utopian theory of money: joule theory (International Unit of energy, work and heat).

I make a clear example: If I buy a cheap shirt in a shop I can pay 10€. A very low value if I consider that the cotton that was used has needed huge quantities of water to be cultivated, which in most cases means to drain water in weak areas (the case of the Aral Sea, a time the fourth largest lake in the world and today one of the biggest disasters in the world because of the cotton cultivations) and abound in pesticides. If we look at the physical production of jersey I'm sure that the workers who have produced it are not going too well in payment and union rights. Oh, and what about those who have grown cotton? They are not going better. Dyes equal other environmental disasters. Not to mention the pollution due to transport of raw materials and products all around the world.

In short, the shirt has a very high value when you consider the energy used for each step of the production chain, plus the environmental disasters that all entails. If you calculate the cost of my shirt not in euros but in joules, it would be cheaper to buy a organic cotton (or hemp or bamboo) fairtrade shirt. I'd consume less natural resources, I would not need pesticides and not exploit human resources.

My theory on joule makes sense for the products but not for creative work. Since it not matter I'm not able to assess that in terms of quantity.

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