Italian version This story is by my good friend Paolo. It is about a fact happened in May 2022. It shows us how it is possible to arrive at conflict from a barroom discussion, and how wonderfully it is possible to defuse it. Thank you Paolo! It was a sunny day, I was quietly enjoying an ice cream. At one point, a man with a white beard like mine approached me and asked if he could sit at the same…
Italian version Value is a frequently used word. We often use it for what has economic value, or we use it to refer to people and actions that have to do with acts of heroism and extreme selflessness (civilian and military medals of valor). According to the thought of Japanese pedagogue Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944), value is the synthesis of beauty, gain and good. We create value when we act to improve our physical and spiritual aesthetics (beauty), to gain tangible…
Italian version We normally calculate the wealth of a group of people as the sum of the wealth of individuals. Suppose we have 1 island with 5 inhabitants, each of whom has 1 gold coin. The wealth of the island is 5 coins, and it would be the same even if only one person had 5 coins and the other four had none. Addition gives us no information about how wealth is distributed within a group. Instead, let us try…