Real life vs Text book; Public interests vs Private interests. Capitalist vs Socialist market systems, Conservatives vs Liberals vs Democrats......

What is happening on the streets of the world today is exactly what we are discussing in our CSR classes these days. So very relevant. We are studying the view points of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.Plus the corporate structure. Plus the conflict between Public and Corporate interests. We are studying about so called "Green washing" and "CSR washing" or "Ethics washing".

More on this later...

I do not think it is accurate to use the numbers 1% and 99% by the protestors. That is not how wealth is split up among people in USA or anywhere else. However, I do hope that the MBA that we are doing shall put us in the top 1% bracket :)

What do the 99ers want? Social justice, equal opportunities and economic benefits for all. Some links:

Check this out:

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

And these pie charts:

A short film - Occupy Wall Street by "the 99 percenters". In Canada, "Occupy Toronto" is going on today (15th oct, 2011) at Bay St. downtown

Discovered the world of Blackberry Apps + Re adopted the Blackberry :)

I was a user of Blackberry handsets in the past (as part of the job - free company Blackberry), but had not been using one since 2 years. Yesterday,  I decided to give my brick phone its final goodbye and I got a Blackberry Bold 9700 for just $160 as part of a special offer by Wind Mobile and I am loving it. I am very impressed by all the new Apps (applications) available online. Especially related to weather, maps, blogging and so on. I have heard that android Apps are great too. Can not wait to sample those in the future, too! My next phone, next year shall be a Google Android OS phone with a big screen and perhaps a dual core processor.

The world has changed radically. With these apps (which are basically icons that stream relevant information to you on the screen), it is so much more easy to receive precise information. And Information is power!