You often hear phrases like "money changes people" or "money corrupts character". However, in this blog post I do not only want to discuss whether and how money can spoil character, but rather what it means for society as a whole when we are told from an early age that we have to live in...
Having recently read the book "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, in which the writer sets himself apart from civilization around 1850, I wanted to explain a quote from this brilliant writer in a little more detail. I chose this statement by Thoreau because it seemed very familiar to me. This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that...
For some time now, you can hear people everywhere talking about inflation. Everything is getting more expensive. Currently, the inflation rate in Germany is +7.9% and in many countries it looks similar. Probably the most noticeable is this with food. Anyone who has been shopping in a supermarket lately will have noticed that at...
The other day, over coffee with my roommate, I had the topic that the growth of the economy is bad for the world, or rather the climate as well as biodiversity. Even though we didn't really go deeper into the topic, it kept popping up in my head over the next few days. Over and over again,...
About 6 months ago I stopped using my headphones. The reason, or rather the motivation, for this undertaking was that I wanted to have more contact with my environment. After all, who doesn't know it, you put on your shoes and jacket, put your headphones in your ear and leave the house. What so...
After backpacking through South East Asia for the first time, I realized that you don't really need much to live. On the contrary, it even felt good to have to take care of only a handful of things. That's why when I got back home, I sorted out a lot of my possessions. And even now...
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