...is a lie!!
Canteen of a public university in Germany, supposed to have lower prices for students:
1/2 chicken + fried chips + 20 cl coke: more than 6€, plus the chicken is row, the chips are cold, the coke is warm and any of the things tastes disgracefully (even the coke).
Turkish guy in the corner:
1/2 chicken + fried chips + 50 cl coke: less than 5€, plus coke is cold, chips have been done right now, chicken is completely cooked; everything tastes wonderful.
Further examples:
- I've lost my wallet so I need to cancel my card at the bank. This has a fee of 15€... I wonder what do I pay for. The girl at the bank presses a button: old card blocked + 15€ gone from my account. If I find my old card, it can be unblocked again without having to issue a new card. This means: I didn't pay the 15€ fee for issuing a new card, I payed them for the girl to press the "block" button. Same operation with a Spanish card is free, which makes me wonder how harder it is to press the computer "block card" key in a German computer than in a Spanish one.
- I've lost my wallet so I need a new student card. This has a fee of 16€... I wonder what do I pay for. By the way, the university is a public one and it's supposed to have popular prices. 16€ is cheap compared to... a new laptop, e.g. But it's a huge difference compared to the actual cost of issuing a student card. I wonder if the aims of the public university is to provide services to the people or to make money as any other private university does... Public universities just target a population sector which can't be targeted by private university. But the university itself seems to be a lie.
- I need to send a fax from Berlin to Spain. Doing some Google-Re-Search you can find the price for sending a fax can be as low as 10 cents a page. They charge me 1€/page in the place under my house, and an extra € because it's going to Spain. So random...
And so on and so forth...
Money is a lie. The price of money is a lie set almost by random. What more proofs are needed?? What's the supply and demand law justifying any of the prices above? It's just a stochastic game of a few obscene people.
My answer: boycott the money!!
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3 comments:
WTF? Let's stop using money!
Let's go back to barter!
Money "price" is based on what you demand/need and what they offer. In case of food, for example, you can walk few streets more and find that thing you´re looking for cheaper, so it´s kind of a random price.
In case of stuff that you need, like blocking your credit card or a new student card, they decide what they want you to pay for their services, services that you can´t avoid, actually services that you need. So, they swindle you in your own face.
I hate them all. Let´s hate money also!
(L)
I'm sure we can made a life with much less money than we do... What about a generalized spare policy at each home? That would blow up global markets and all this stuff :D
Now and on, only drinking Admiral Vernon!! ;)
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