Money can buy you Justice

Lately even here in Finland we have had trials where the lawyers have charged astonishing fees.

It appears that you need to hire top lawyers to get effective service in the court. And top lawyers - as being top - are expensive. In the current market based economy one sells one's talent with the highest price available.

But let's see what is the outcome of employing market practices to justice: if it really does pay off to hire top lawyers, hiring cheaper lawyers must then mean getting worse results. So it is not the law then that solves the case? It's not justice that is sought after, but simply victory?

Just put your money on the scale, please.

If you are not rich, you cannot hire top lawyers. So your cheap lawyer will loose your case, because he is not so good. You will not be tried by the law and justice, but by money. It will be the richer party who shall always win the case. Even in the Finnish courts you can buy your victory with money?

BTW: Do you see any resemblance to the US presidential campaigns?

Economists are wrong

Economists are wrong, when they say that the invisible hand will guide resources in the most effective way, giving everyone the best possible outcome. - In the long run.

They may actually be right, as far as only money is concerned - in the long run, but if current all over well being is concerned, they could not be more wrong. Yet the world is run by their rules. For the worse of us all. (Well; except for he filthy rich, of course).

In the long run wealth may perhaps be distributed in the most effective way; but in the short run people are suffering, starving, and dying. When waiting for the invisible hand to finally show some effect.


Finland has never before been this rich, and yet Finland 'cannot afford' taking care of the old, the poor, and the sick. - As care taking just does not bring in cash.

After the war, when Finland was poor, Finland was a friendly country. Well, it no longer is.
Our values are badly off balance.

Greece is burning because of faulty control

Close to one hundred new forest fires are started daily in Greece. Over 60 people are killed in the forest fires so far.


It is believed that the Greek forest fires are lit on purpose. It would be no surprise, as forests in Greece can not be used for fields or for building new houses, but if there is no forest, nothing prevents from using the ground.

Greek authorities shown poor understanding of human nature, and poor understanding of the effects of control systems: People do what the control systems allow. If burning a forest frees the ground for building, forests will be burnt.


It is my forecast, that if the culprits are ever caught, they will not see anything wrong in their deeds: They needed land, and they acquired land in a way that the control system made possible for them.

We do need control, but the control must not be stupid.

Let's put higher tax on diesel fuel!

The Finnish Government has just decided to increase taxation of diesel fuel.

The Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen admitted that the decision was made to maximize tax intake, now that diesel cars are more popular than ever before.

Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen

It is commonly believed that diesel cars are less polluting than petrol cars. And less pollution is exactly what Finland officially is aiming for. - Yet Finland has a long history of punishing diesel usage.

For decades there has been a punishment tax for diesel cars: If you own a diesel car, you have to pay an annual 'diesel tax', even if you never drive your car. You are quite simply punished for owning a diesel car, and not using petrol. - Petrol cars use up more fuel, you see.

So now they decided to increase the fuel tax on diesel. "To maximize fuel tax intake". Without thinking for a moment, what the decision means for the prise of goods, food, and anything that needs to transported by diesel trucks in this country of long transport distances.


"To maximize fuel tax intake". - I wonder how long Finland can continue on this extremely weird policy of taxing motor vehicles and traffic in ways that are not in unison with the EU regulations.

Stalin is Russia's Hero

Stalin is Russia's hero, "because he won the Great Patriotic War" (The Second World War; WWII).

Russia's reborn Hero

Russia is building up strong national sentiment, for which purpose they need Great National Heroes. To obtain Great National Heroes, Russia has closed down national archives, stopped going thru their past hidden history, and re-written their school books. Thus Stalin can now be nominated the Leading National Hero, as young people no longer know the truth about him. Or about the former Soviet Union.

Russia is seeking their way back onto the old Soviet Way.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia did for a while examine her history. As archives were opened up, the terrifying crimes of the past were finally published to the public: Truths such as Stalin for example having millions of Russian people killed. Similarly Russians finally admitted, that it was Russia who started the Finnish Winter War, not Finland.

But now the history archives are being closed down again, and Russia is firmly determined to build up strong national sentiment. As truth can not be used for it, the sentiment must be based on myths and lies: Staling was a Hero, Finland started the Winter War, etc.

What should we think of Russia, that deliberately is building its new identity on lies? What can we think? What will become of the Russian youth, whose future strong national pride will be based on lies?


Russia demands respect. The only way they know to get respect is strength, and strength to them seems to be mainly bullying and brutal violence. Strangely enough they do not see that with those tools they are not getting respect, but hate, fear and despise.

Russia is deliberately going back towards the 'Good Old Days of the Soviet Union'. They are abandoning international and national democracy and trust. They seem to be building something that belongs to the past, and should certainly be left there.

I am sorry for the Russian people: the past national terror is bound to finally come out. And when it does come out, it comes out with violence. - Why would president Putin choose to build up the new nationalism on lies, and hide the truth that would heal, but now will destroy?

Is it because Putin wants to be a Strong Man?