From Public Service to Fragmented Care: The Roots of the Assistant Business In the Nordic countries, citizen welfare services make up a significant portion of national income. Previously, the organization of these services was entirely the responsibility of the public sector. Service provision was regulated, and employees were required to meet minimum standards in terms…
Don’t resist the new energies that are coming your way. I read an article last week about a person’s month-long experiment in trying to limit his spending so that he only spent a euro per meal on food. The article talked about the same things I wrote about some time ago when I said that…
In the middle of October I was very surprised to read news about the acquisition between a Finnish video game development company, Supercell and a Japanese telecommunications and Internet corporation SoftBank and a video game company GungHo. The acquisition brought the Finnish counterparts 1,1 billion (11*100 million) euros. The news surprised me, because I had…
The Finnish interior minister, Päivi Räsänen became the eyesore of the media last week when she said in her speech in the summer festival of the Finnish Lutheran Mission that when the worldly law and the law of God conflict we should obey God’s word. I think this is rather a no-brainer and I didn’t…
As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative.But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For the first time in my life…
The best thing my mother supplied me with was the feeling that when I had a measuring tape, a chalk and a fabric I could do with them whatever I wanted to. One of my first memories from my new home was, that I asked my craft teacher to help me sew a new winter…
In the Thrive-movie David Icke talks about the greatest prison of people: the fear what other people think (1:18:10 on video timeline). People have been brought up to become guards for each other. Those, who step too far from the norm and conventional rules are forced through wordless agreement back into the old rut again….
In the past months I have wondered what kind of a magic lies behind the fact that physical exercise is so pleasant with my physiotherapist: At best it is not exhausting and everything is happening by itself. But when I want to exercise with my assistant it is ordeal to the soul. I could do…
When I begun to write this blog I thought that I won’t write anything concerning political issues. World politics, agony of people and questionable policies of decision-makers have made me so frustrated and distressed in past decades that I would like to exclude that all from my life. I cannot help things a bit by…
Shift of Socio-Economic Power Last week I watched in Youtube a video, in which an economist talks about the shift of the socio-economic power in the world. Until the year 2000 we have lived in a world where 1/6 of the world’s population, one billion people have had 80% of the world’s income.Five billion people…
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