Are you playing to be a sheep?


People accept atrocious conditions, or simply stupidities without questioning.

I’m not going to talk about giving around 50% of what you make in your salary to the government in taxes.

Let’s keep that for another day.

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Let’s talk about “changing the hour” or the Daily Saving Time thing.

When was the last time that you voted for such a change?

Have you been every asked?

People think that they live in democracies and have right to vote or at least have an opinion.

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Well… the idea of changing the hour is old. Very old.

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Benjamin Franklin, as soon as in 1784, suggested that people could save candles by getting up earlier in the summer. He said it as a joke.

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But then, a New Zealander, George Hudson, an entomologist, in 1895, suggested shifting clocks to gain more daylight in the evening so that he could have more daylight after work for collecting insects.

Con dos cojones! Or “with two balls”... Things like this is why I love NZ…

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But well… reality is that Germany was “jodida” during WWI and thought that playing with the hours could be a good idea to save energy… the guys were starving.

The allies did the same, because if Germany is doing it, of course, it must be good.

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After the ward, the measure was abandoned... until WWII, where leaders thought that if bullets are still effective to kill people, “changing the hour” must still be good for saving energy…

After the war, everyone forgot the idea… too much trouble, no real benefits.

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But then, the energy crisis in the 70s made that the U.S. passed the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act in 1973.

Then, countries started to copy Uncle Sam, until today.

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Today, plenty of studies have shown that the savings in energy are negligible… although that’s not the case for the effect on the health of hundreds of millions of people around the world exposed to a change in habits that they didn’t ask for…

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We don’t work, eat, sleep or consume energy like 100 or 50 years ago… but here we are.

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Absurd conventions perpetuate themselves without questioning.

Lazy leaders. Customs. Playing to be a sheep.

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Things that you do at your company…

Ideas that you have in your mind about money, your career or your personal growth…

Many are just conventions imposed by someone else that probably have more negative effects than good ones.

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Questioning why is a superpower.

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