11th Jan 2012 Sort Of An Obituary, To A Dreamer Of The Ultramodern Brookstick

A few days before Christmas, the Spanish aeronautic engineer, Manuel Jalon, the man who lift the women off the floor, passed away.

While drinking beer in the Tubo of Zaragoza, a friend challenged him to invent something practical and useful for people, pointing to a woman on her knees scrubbing the floor. With ingenuity and passion, he designed the floor mop, and also a factory to fabricate it in great numbers. To his imaginative talent, united also his entrepreneurial capacity.

 

From the first model Mop, the Cisne (Swan) created in 1964, practically never changed till today, more than 50 millions units have been sold, without counting the many imitations, avoiding rheumatic diseases that suffered a lot of women doing scrubbing chores.

Jalon also designed in 1978 a disposable (of once only use) syringe, for injecting or withdrawing fluids from the body, fabricated 25,000 million units in 15 factories all over the world.

 

However, it mattered less to him the numbers but very much the people; the lives that could be improved or saved, understanding well that talent should be put into service for the good of the society. Despite being a businessman and creator of useful objects, he was very much against the kind of consumer society, and had clear idea of his responsibility to rectify those multinational companies that extended their products all over the globe with the benefits exclusively to the proprietors. He also knew that society didn't need frenetically new products but good and reliable products, economic and durable ones.

What was the motto of this humanist advocate on route of extinction? 'Dreaming actively, seeing and anticipating a better future for all'. Which business school teaches this doctrine?

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11th Jan 2012 Jefferson Had Said ...

"The banking institutions are more dangerous for our liberties than our armies for which they are ready & willing to combat. If the American people permit the banks to control their money, the banks and institutions that flourish around them would deprive people of all their possession, first by means of inflation, then by recession, until the day on which their children wake up without the house on the land that their parents had conquered."

So said In 1802, Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States between 1801 to 1809. After he retired from politics, the banks impounded his properties because he owed a lot of loans. He was the victim of all that he had foretold.

 

Today, more than a century later, what he had predicted is still happening. Financial lending groups and entities attract speculators who invest great quantity of money in buying debts which, with the interest they charge, they have got the power of the rein of the indebted countries.

I don't know a thing about politics, much less financial intrigues. I just wonder, where do we, the general public, stand? 

 

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