In cold blood

In this final reflection for the course, I have chosen one of the most important literary works of the 20th century: In cold blood. It is a novel written by the journalist Truman Capote and published in 1966. The book is based on real events, tells us about the brutal murder of a family in Kansas.

This book was the emergence of a new literary genre called NonFiction Novel, that were presented in the book features never seen previously, as it is narrated in third person omnipresent and presents a realism and characteristic of journalistic reportage narrative structure. And this is one of the things that I liked most of this book, since we are presented with a literary work as a journalistic narrative. The narrative so detailed, from the description of the Cluutter´s house and all the characters, makes you get involved in the story. Even through the descriptions of the characters, it allows us to know its history and even feel compassion for murderers, especially Perry Smith, who is influenced by his partner Dick

Taking into account all the interesting and timeless issues that are dealt with in the book, one of those which perhaps grabbed my attention is the one with regard to death. The death in this novel is presented to us in two ways: a cruel and cold-blooded murder with no apparent reason; and on the other hand, the death penalty given to the murderers.

On the first way of death, I must say that for the American society of that time, it was not considered a simple murder, but it put the spotlight on the safety of their society, where at that time anyone could be killed, regardless of the acts that commit. The case on which this book is based, the Clutter family, conveyed this concern. They were a family who made their money through a farm and with whom no one ever had had any problem: they were very respected by the entire community of Holcomb.

The second point of view is the one which made me reflect most on the death penalty which condemned the killers. There is no doubt it is one of the timeless themes dealt with in this literary work. Nowadays, more than 25 countries in the world still keep this type of sentence, according to Amnesty International. And without a doubt, this book has helped me to position myself against the death penalty, because although for some it may be fair to kill the murderer, from my point of view the blood will not be washed with blood. I think that the feeling of revenge is one of the oldest human feelings, but I do not think that pain for the loss of a loved one is healed with the death of the person in charge. And I also think that Truman Capote, through the character of Perry, presents it close to the reader, so we can even pity him.

The death penalty is certainly one of the issues that it should reflect, and "A cold blood" is a good book to do so.

The future of the money: My own vision

In this publication I will analyze the conference by Neha Narula, a very interesting talk about the evolution of the money and more specifically the future of the economy in relation with the transactions.

As she says at the conference, money is about the exchanges and the transactions that we do with each other, individuals and companies. Therefore money is not objective, that is, money has the value we give it.
Nowadays, the  digital money moves faster than ourselves, but how Neha says It moves at speed of banks. It's here where appears the Cryptonmoney, a new way to exchange money. This kind of economy is based in money without intermediaries, consequently even faster than the digital money. This type of currency uses the mathematics system of Cryptography, whose characteristics are the security and the knowledge of the origin, parts very important if we are talking about money.
It's true that Bitcoins, the most common cryptoncurrency, can be used to ilegal transactions, as Mega advice, but I think this can happen even if we save our money under the mattress. In my opinion, this will streamline the process, even although there are sceptical people who refuse every innovation.

Before this conference, I never heard about this terms, but this vision of the economy of the future is really nice to discover, because I believe that it'll change our form of buy and sell, and also our vision of money.

Reflections of my neightbours

I will start with the reflection of Marcus Lungren. 

His view seems to me to be very interesting, indeed, I share many of their views. It is enjoyable to read comparisons between countries and even solutions to cases in the South of Europe, as the example of Airbnb in Spain through tourism. As I very much agree with it when she talks about comparisons between Sweden and the United Kingdom, about As independent workers are growing through digital platforms, although without forgetting the non-digital. 

I really liked this reflection as it introduces the subject and even dares to provide solutions from their point of view.

Continuous with the reflection of Marina Kimli

No doubt this is another type of reflection. MArina explains in brief the main aspects of the article of Jacques Bughin and Jan Mischke.

I like the way in which it introduces us to the subject, since it goes step by step by moving on what the article is about: from the definitions of eg economy to the great differences between countries.

And of course I agree with her in saying that politicians should use these data provided to them to develop policies that protect these workers. 

Finally, I chose the reflection of my teammate Tanguy Marsande

Undoubtedly one of the reflections that I liked, not only remains in the information of the article but also presents a different point of view, with terms like digital nomads.

I really liked the information that complements the article.

It is a reflection that justifies the data of the article containing more information necessary to understand it gig economy.

In general I liked all of the reflections that I read, with too many points of view, but that´s really nice to know what the people think. I don´t talk about linguistic of any of them because I don´t understand a lot about that so I don´t think that I´m prepared to write about that.

María

New working models: The gig economy

According the Cambridge Dictionary the “gig economy” means “a way of working that is based on people having temporary jobs or doing separate pieces of work, each paid separately, rather than working for an employer” what is commonly known as freelance. Nowadays this types of jobs are so common and a increased trend as we can read in the article. 

The article shows us as work, as we have always known it is changing. There have always been independent, and autonomous works, but the development of companies in internet and unemployment caused by the crisis in recent years, has encouraged the growth of this style of work

Certainly seems interesting data offered by McKinsey Global Institute, not only because it compare with the traditional independent work, if not that also show us data which are the main incentives: choice or necessity

Caught me attention of the countries of southern Europe, such as Italy, Greece or Spain, my own country, has almost the same percentage of work by choice than by necessity. This and other aspects, shows both social and economic difference that exists in a same continent.

From my point of view, and according to the statistics, the globalized world will adapted to the circumstances of the gig economy, which, in my opinion, offers a greater specialisation and personalised service. Today people look for a global but also own service and that is achieved through customization. It may be work for the production or marketing of the product but consumers intend to do something common very our.

In a way, I understand the detractors of this new model of work, since it breaks the rules of large holding companies of the markets in which dictated its own rules. These types of work are a little "free" and looking for the gap in the labour market that the big multinationals leave free.

In conclusion, the data do not lie and that economic developments leads us to new situations as the gig economy, that without a doubt will mark the steps of a new way of working

María