capitalism

"If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold". That holds true for many today's digital services. There is no shortage for free services that are willing to take you as one of their products.

The movie Social Dilemma should probably be classified as a horror movie. At least I was terrified after watching it. Hardly any real horror movie is able to do me that. And that was despite the fact that I knew the topic and all the things presented in this documentary prior watching it already. 

In many ways we are already living in a Brave new world, dystopia envisioned by Alodus Huxley. You could imagine there is more than enough content for us to consume and dull our minds. But the wise corporate leaders have decided to protect us at least to some extend from excessive consumption by imposing regional restrictions to the content.

There is no shortage of streaming services. Quite the opposite. There is way too many of them and it's getting harder and harder to decide between them. There are good series in all of them and new seasons coming out at regular pace. So it's hard to even alternate between them. It becomes cheaper to just have all of them on a yearly plan.

But there is one blatantly missing from the Finnish market. The hottest new service of the year: Disney plus. Once again we had to read the bad news that the release here is postponed until autumn. Global capitalism at it's finest.

Recycling plastic is a good thing. Here in Finland it has been organized pretty well. It has even been enforced in law in certain level.

Producers and importers of products that are packaged into plastic are obligated to arrange the collection of such plastics by the product responsibility law. Obviously it is us, the consumers who are paying for that.

As much as I despite the infinite greed and selfishness of corporations and capitalism there is one positive thing that comes up during the times like this. If everything would have already been stretched as thin as possible during the good times there wouldn't be any reserves to throw in during the time of the crisis.