I am in the middle of changing suppliers for both energy supply and telephone.
It has become easier to manage this process.
I have only made this change once before, after being accosted by a young salesman outside the supermarket, It was raining and cold and I think I must have felt sorry for him, but in practise it made little or no difference, long term, to the costs.
Everything was just as expensive with the new company as with the old.
This was true for both energy and telephony, my last flirtation with another 'phone company sent me back to BT fairly rapidly.
This time however I am changing for a point of principle.
Mutualism.
I have decided that it is not enough to write a blog that is critical of the failed capitalist project which has generated neither wealth or optimism for the 99% and disproportionately rewarded the 1%, it is time to act and so my action is to change to a mutual for both energy and telephony.
I sent an email around friends and family advising my new email address and received some interesting responses.
No .co.uk? asked one friend.
coop.coop? said another that's like org.org, that's ridiculous!
I am not sure if it will be cheaper or whether mutual energy will make us warmer or mutual telephony will bring us closer but at least the money, my money will be going to an organisation with values and principles.
Criticism of my last post from the in-house critic aka the armchair critic.
She complained that my blog wasn't amusing.
Well I countered can you point to anything remotely amusing about what is happening now?
All we are promised are hard times ahead.
The consolation appears to be that the misery is shared? But we are not all in this together.
The movie Inside Job, which whilst focused mainly on the American economic collapse appears as a j'accuse addressed to the global financial services industry certainly was not a light comedy.
In essence it showed how the financial industry invented a whole raft of instruments which were in practise a license to print money and then with the complicity of governments, privatised their profits and socialised their losses.
Well now I can at least see that with my new suppliers profit will be socialised and I will just have to hope that there will be no losses.
And, as my bank is also a mutual, if I am right I may find myself laughing all the way there.
It has become easier to manage this process.
I have only made this change once before, after being accosted by a young salesman outside the supermarket, It was raining and cold and I think I must have felt sorry for him, but in practise it made little or no difference, long term, to the costs.
Everything was just as expensive with the new company as with the old.
This was true for both energy and telephony, my last flirtation with another 'phone company sent me back to BT fairly rapidly.
This time however I am changing for a point of principle.
Mutualism.
I have decided that it is not enough to write a blog that is critical of the failed capitalist project which has generated neither wealth or optimism for the 99% and disproportionately rewarded the 1%, it is time to act and so my action is to change to a mutual for both energy and telephony.
I sent an email around friends and family advising my new email address and received some interesting responses.
No .co.uk? asked one friend.
coop.coop? said another that's like org.org, that's ridiculous!
I am not sure if it will be cheaper or whether mutual energy will make us warmer or mutual telephony will bring us closer but at least the money, my money will be going to an organisation with values and principles.
Criticism of my last post from the in-house critic aka the armchair critic.
She complained that my blog wasn't amusing.
Well I countered can you point to anything remotely amusing about what is happening now?
All we are promised are hard times ahead.
The consolation appears to be that the misery is shared? But we are not all in this together.
The movie Inside Job, which whilst focused mainly on the American economic collapse appears as a j'accuse addressed to the global financial services industry certainly was not a light comedy.
In essence it showed how the financial industry invented a whole raft of instruments which were in practise a license to print money and then with the complicity of governments, privatised their profits and socialised their losses.
Well now I can at least see that with my new suppliers profit will be socialised and I will just have to hope that there will be no losses.
And, as my bank is also a mutual, if I am right I may find myself laughing all the way there.
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