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47: Retiree Sabbaticals
Chapter 47: Retiree Sabbaticals Kaslo, B.C. Sunday October 11, 2015 While talking recently with an old friend I happened to mention that I had just returned from “a little getaway.” He immediately asked, “what did you get … Continue reading
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Tagged quality of life (facilitation of), sabbaticals
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Pleonexia and Human Nature
WHEN ENOUGH ISN’T ENOUGH: PLEONEXIA AND HUMAN NATURE “Money is just a way of keeping score.” H.L. Hunt Pleonexia is an ancient Greek word referring to a very old human problem. The word describes an obsessive desire … Continue reading
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Tagged "Enough", fair sharing, greed (cultures of), inequality (financial), losing, money, pleonexia, quality of life (facilitation of), score keeping, social comparisons of self with others, society (responsibilities to), wealth (extremes of), winning
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L. Kohr (1957) The Breakdown of Nations
A Synopsis Of Leopold Kohr’s Book The Breakdown of Nations (1957) WHY SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, NATURAL, IMPERATIVE, AND GENERALLY UNOBTAINABLE Every human life has its seasons. And so does every human society, organization, and culture. There are times … Continue reading
Posted in Synopses of Books
Tagged balance/equilibrium, democracy (facilitation of), diversity (importance of), economics (sustainable), growth (excessive), growth cycles, law of diminishing effect, Leopold Kohr, nations (sustainable), necessities & luxuries, organizations (sustainable), peace (facilitation of), political economy, power (abuse of), power (dangerous levels of), productivity (optimizing), quality of life (facilitation of), redundancies (importance of), size (optimizing), Small is Beautiful, temptation (human susceptibility to), The Breakdown of Nations, theories (exceptions and counter-examples to), theory of size, United Nations (weaknesses of), war (causes of)
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