本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛The Story of Big Mac
Work less, Enjoy more!
McDonald’s restaurant is a well know cooperation in the world. The Economist's Big Mac index seeks to make exchange-rate theory more digestible, but the burger is a well know junk food and the company pay low wages too. The burger makes people suffering from high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks to die. Still, most investors consider McDonald’s is one of the best companies in the world.
How come a company making people sick to die with low wages is one of the best companies in the world? First, they use more resources to focus on advertisements. The propaganda of McDonald’s is the Massive Destructive Weapon of our minds. There are free playing places for kids in their restaurants, free toys if you buy and eat their burgers and using all mainstream Medias for its unhealthy products. That makes us use to eat it when we were kids. They do not care about us because of our health endangered for their profits.
Second, they are everywhere due to all level governments make laws and regulations to encourage and promote the Big Mac business model that making people sick to die with low wages. Our politicians always make policy to attract the Big Mac business that is the best for GDP, but not for our well-being. GDP makes politicians stronger and popular, at the same time people are suffering by unhealthy products and low wages. Politicians can collect more taxes and show off higher employments even our health damaged by those products. HST is the resent example in Ontario and BC. “Many economists and businesses agree that a single value-added tax, like the HST, is the most important thing we can do to strengthen Ontario's economy. Governments argument about HST” http://www.rev.gov.on.ca/en/taxchange/hst.html
We are taxpayers and hire politicians working for us, but their priority is “Attract business” not our happiness and well-being.
Our politicians are running our government like a monopoly Big Mac business. During an election they do massive propaganda to confuse us. After election they spend our tax dollars whatever they want such as e-health scandal of Ontario provincial government and high cost of G8/G20 meetings by federal politics. They use our tax dollar to tell us that they have increased GDP and employments by promote Big Mac businesses.
Increasing GDP and employment just like McDonald’s restaurant make us sick to die. Look into our living condition and feel our bodies. How many more junk can we take in? Every morning we rush to drive-through windows to get our big Macs and coffee. Opening our mail boxes, there are more junks than mails suck us to buy more and more. We buy liquor, smoke and use drug to relax. Every week we have to put our boxes of garbage on our curbs. Every month we have to pay bills for junks. We are overweight, have high blood pressure and diabetes. We do not get enough sleep because our politicians press us to work harder for more and more from Big Mac businesses.
Enough is enough, No more Big Mac. “Ask not what our politician can do for us; ask what we can do for ourselves.” It is time to change the monopoly Big Mac political system with Happy Planet Index (HPI) instead of GDP and Bill of Choices instead politicians.
“The Happy Planet Index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives.”
"The Bill of Choices will make our government more transparent and effective. Our government will let taxpayers choose where their money will go, by setting up accounts for different government departments.”
Our current political system designed 800 year ago by Magna Carta. Carta was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges for the King of England. The system only makes top 5% people rich. The rest of us have to work as slaves. YOU and ME shall share our passion and care our government for more transparent and effective. The new system will empower you and me by two political forces. One is voters to elect our politicians in power. Another one is volunteer taxpayers to oversee the government expenses by making our politicians working as the same as our builders, gardeners and computer technicians. We will pay tax after our politicians explain our government project in detail, just like our builders, gardeners and computer technicians do for you and me. We do not know how to build a house. We do not know how to plant a garden. We do not know how to make a computer. We DO know how good they are after professional explanations. We do not know how to govern other people. We CAN tell which politician work for you and me; which politician working for Big Mac Business, if we share our passion and care our government as taxpayers and volunteers.
The best encyclopedia is wikipedia.org because of its volunteers from the entire world. The best government should be shared and cared by volunteers and taxpayers from the entire country without political parties. Most party members are from Big Mac businesses.
“Thomas Hobbes pointed out in his book Leviathan that the
emergence of political parties in British parliamentary life was the
worst thing to happen to democracy there. Parties need money, money
leads to favours, favours lead to watered down legislation and outside
influence over policy. Parties lead to party discipline which does not
necessarily reflect the views of MPs. Ban political parties I say.”
We will have more transparent and effective government with advanced technologies, and shared knowledge. Our future will work less and enjoy more.
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