Re: Some clarifications about pork and Ladonian finances.

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: : Some Ladonian subjects have questioned the decency and : : appropriateness of the Queens actions. : : First of all I want to thank those individuals for bringing : : this issue of business up, giving me the opportunity to : : stand up for the Queen and take the time to shed light on : : this issue of great concern. : : The faulty perception of the Queens intent was that she : : was doing "porky" business on the board. The person who : : insulted the Queen this way lacks an insight in financial : : issues. : : We must remember that all Ladonians still live in countries : : where the financial system is built on the idea of constant : : exponential growth and making money on interest and compound : : interest. The theories of dealing with money this way should : : not actually be called economy but rather chrematistics : : according to Lilia Calmér in Fodelse och foraldraskap, a : : swedish homebirthers Magazine. Economy is thus only the : : science of house-keeping, i.e. how we deal with the resources : : on the earth or in a smaller ecologic community. : : In nature no never-ending exponential growth takes place. : : That's why the chrematistic way of dealing with resources : : is so devastating to the ecosystems, locally and globally. : : The chrematistic system simply does not fit in to the way : : life is evolving on the planet. : : Doing ecological farming in Sweden or any other country on : : the planet is doing economy in a chrematistic system. A : : consequence is that the ecological farmer mostly sells the : : products at loss. So does the Queen. Even at the relatively : : high price of 45 sek/kg she just makes up to the costs of : : the production and makes no profit (read no salary). Should : : she sell at a lower price she would sell each pig at loss. : : The loss has to be covered. Naturally by making chrematistic : : money in some other way. Obviously, in the long run, this : : will not work. : : If you, the consumer, choose to buy the royal flesh, paying : : a fair price, you will contribute to the possibility that : : smallscale ecological agriCULTURE is sustained. If you choose : : to buy the cheap flesh offered at throwaway prices in the big : : stores you will only support the large-scale agroINDUSTRY : : that is evolving in horrifying dimensions today (I'm talking : : about millions of pigs produced in one totally computorized : : agroindustrial company, already existing in the USA). : : If you read this far you may now realize that we have to : : start dealing with how financial politics should be run : : in Ladonia. Should we have a chrematistic system or an : : economic system or could we include both? The fact that : : we only pay taxes by contributing our creativity supports : : the idea of economy. Some citizens have expressed an urge : : to start businesses in Ladonia. We must however keep in : : mind that unregulated chrematistic production may have : : fatal effects on nature. Sandor Posvari has recently pointed : : out to us the ecological disaster of the slovakian rerouting : : of the Danube for the production of electric power. This : : disaster is as all other ecological tragedies on the planet : : basically a consequense of chrematistics. : : Gunnar Jarl of Bjoerksaeter, HDKPPTQ : : ************************************* : : Non scholae sed vitae discimus : Dear Gunnar Jarl of Björksäter : Just some reflections on your defence of the "pork" business. : I can agree that you on Her majesty the Queen are true idealists; : thats what you really are traying to say, though in a mystified : way. Ecological minded people are true heroes in this furious : time of mass-consumption. However, speaking in my privat role as : a business economist, I would say that your defence of conventional : business, even though ecological, is somewhat problematic. In fact : you are blurring the borders of Ladonia with your problems, problems : that don't exist in Ladonia. If your'e "pork" business was situated : in Ladonia, then we would have had to think about the problems that : would arise. Most problably the people would ask your firm to move to : some neighbouring country, alongside with your financial troubles. But : this is not the case, as far as I can see. Then there is no problem, is : there. Your rhetorical move is classical, first creating a problem out : of nothing, then forcing the people to choose between heaven and hell. : Our Minister of Property, has been threatening to open a Factory for : sulphuric acid in Mare Jenny. Thats what I call a problem. : Ladonia is not going to be a name round the neck of some happy pig, sold : for örtugs, and then slaughtered in a friendly and humanistic manner. : Best regards to Queen Ywonne I Jarl

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