Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Really?

So I have this "ad-aware" thing on here and it's there so that if you click on them then i get paid ... i am not encouraging you to do it, because i don't care and also because i'm not allowed to. Anyway, that's not the point ... the fun part is that if i type something like "ESPN is the worst channel ever created, they have ruined watching sports by over dissecting every sneeze to satisfy the plethora of networks they launched with no real demand. ESPN tries to create sports news not report it and they are typical of what has happened to journalism ... reporting has been replaced by the attempted sale of news which leads to mindless sensationalism and the promotion of trivial nonsense while ignoring real stories that might not sell. ESPN is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with TV, sports and news." There will be an ad for ESPN right below that post. SO, don't click on it, but it's there isn't it. Computers are dumb ... they don't get sarcasm at all!
So that's fun. In other news i'm looking into the concept of micro-lending, which works really well in devoloping countries like the bank in Bangladesh that loaned out $6.4 billion in 7.2 billion loans, that's right, it's less than $1 each. So, i'm thinking that we have the same issues here and in every capitalist country in the world ($1 might not work here) but loaning money to "soliodarity groups" (nonfamily co-signers that vouch for eachother and repay together) in small amounts at really low interest rates is a sustainable business model here and in Africa and everywhere else. Just the idea of a bank loaning money to people who can actually use it to better their lives and their families lives and their communities with out collateral ... i mean isn't it better, "more american" than banks loaning money to eachother and then hiring people to work at low wages in bad conditions? So i'm going to keep thinking about that and i'll let you know what i come up with. Ideas are welcome on this one.

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