Dumbness should pay tax

"There are so many donkeys bossing around men of intelligence that I sometimes think that stupidity is a science." Antônio Aleixo In times of tax reform, where the aim is to be creative in order to increase revenue and improve fiscal balance, the government has

Every pessimist is a loser

"The optimist can make mistakes, but the pessimist starts by making mistakes." Juscelino Kubitschek The popular saying goes that "an idle mind is the devil's workshop", or that "idleness is the mother of sin". Popular sayings are not usually the result of empirical studies

Civil Death

The scoundrel, when invested with leadership, makes, invents, agglutinates and dynamizes masses of scoundrels. Nelson Rodrigues This week, Supreme Court Justice Dias Toffoli wrote the epitaph for the Car Wash operation with the following phrase: "Biggest mistake of the Brazilian judiciary". O

The trivialization of mediocrity

"Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum" Saint Augustine The world has evolved in many ways, especially in technology and in the social agenda, by recognizing the need for equal rights and representation of minorities. However, it seems to have regressed on other issues. I'm referring to

The governance of self-protection

"I can calculate the orbit of celestial bodies, but not the madness of people." Sir Isaac Newton, 1721 The corporate world has always been creative in creating governance tools and fads that supposedly signify advances in management, but which serve to generate revenue for

The useless meaning of Left or Right

Today's world is polarized, with angry demonstrations on social networks with a global reach, due to political positions that are divided into two sides: the left and the right. Defining a political position solely by such a generic concept is

Is the calendar really the great villain of Brazilian soccer?

I can tell you that I am not. Perhaps I am the lone voice on this issue.

Journalism and the loss of objectivity

The fundamental role of the free press in sustaining democracy is not disputed. This is an unquestionable fact. In fact, democracy and press are Siamese twins, since democracy presupposes the existence of a free press and there would be no press without democracy. But,

Americanas: a string of disloyalties

"LOYALTY IS THE MOST SACRED GOOD OF THE HUMAN HEART." Seneca News brought by the CPI of the Americanas stores imbroglio states that the current president of the company has publicly admitted the existence of accounting fraud and that the estimated hole of R$ 25 billion

Investing in Burgundy wine gives more return than the stock market

Wine collectors like to proclaim that "all roads lead to Burgundy," but they forget that in the early days of their hobby, the best red wines from the region were not always taken. In North America and Australia, the road to