経済的自衛 ハゲタカに負けるな

　　昨日、ついに経済専門家が明確に述べた。日本の銀行や証券会社が米ヘッジファンドから買い受け日本の個人投資家に売っていたREITが、実は証券化されたサブプライムローンが組み込まれていのだ。７月２９日にこのblogに書いた記事は的を得ていたようだ。ハゲタカは、必ずしも青い目ではなかったという事である。


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　　米国の金融経済は、どこまで落ちるのか全く予想が立たない。連邦準備銀行が資金投入したが、効果はほとんど無く、更に利下げを断行したが、これは応急処置にしか過ぎない。９０年代後半にアジア通貨危機を引き起こし、１人勝ちした米ヘッジファンドがのさばる限り、日本はどこまでも一緒に落ちていく。米国と日本が決定的に違うのは、国民が血を流した分だけ、日本の企業の中には業績をきちんとあげている会社があるのだ。一方、マネーゲームでバブル経済になっている米国とは、全く異なる。
　　経済的自衛により国を守るしかない。金では決して買えない経験をしたことの無い人間に限って、“勝ち組み”“負け組み”等と幼稚な価値観を押し付けるものだ。そんなゴシップに踊らされ、ヘッジファンドの餌食になってしまった人達には、まさに今が目覚めの時である。財務状況をきちんと公開し、本業に特化し、そして経営陣の給与だけが著しく伸びてない会社。これらの企業株を買う事で、国内外にいるハゲタカから守り、米国のサブプライムローン問題による更なる金融経済悪化から距離を保つ事で経済的に自衛でき得るのだ。

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Economic Self-Defense Against Vulture Fund
　　The information posted on July 29 -What was Behind the Plunging Nikkei Stock Average? - turned out to be right. Yesterday, a well-known economic specialist clearly stated that securitized sub prime loans the U.S hedge funds had sold to Japanese banks and securities companies were in fact put into part of the portfolio, REIT. Then, these domestic financial institutions sold them to individuals in Japan. After all, vultures existed within the country as well.

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　　No one is able to predict how far the U.S financial economy is going to fall in the future. Although FRB pumped billions into the U.S market trying to improve liquidity, it was not very effective. Furthermore, it lowered the official interest rate to which the U.S market reacted well. However, this seems to be a temporary measure. As long as the U.S vulture fund investment corporations that induced Asian Currency Crisis in 1997, control the world markets in the way they like it, Japan will fall along with those markets. Remember there is a difference between Japanese economy and the U.S economy. In Japan, there are many companies that have improved their business performance as much as workers have sacrificed themselves for it. On the contrary, the U.S economy has been led by its financial economy after IT bubble burst.
　　It is a wake-up call for those swayed by gossips "Rich being a winner" "Poor being a loser" and victimized by hedge funds. People who have such immature value, usually have never experienced anything they could not buy. Buying shares of Japanese companies that clearly disclose their financial condition, stick to their specialized core business, and never allow only their management personnel to have extraordinary raise, is a mean to protect the nation against vultures. Don't forget some of them are Japanese funds. Economic self-defense is needed now in order to keep a certain distance from the U.S market which many concern it may deteriorate further due to the sub prime loan issue.

　　
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無党派層の民主主義

　　市民ではなく政治家ばかりを見ているテレビ専門ジャーナリスト達は、７月29日「こんなに自民党が負けるとは思わなかった」と一様に驚きを隠せなかった。彼らは、市民の本当の思いを世論調査の数字で判断し、民意を読む事が出来ない。今回の参院選は、無党派の民主主義を決定付けた。
21世紀最初の国政選挙、2001年の参院選、テレビジャーナリストが「風」と呼ぶ無党派民主主義は既に動き出した。テレビ専門のジャーナリストや評論家の事前予想は、相変わらず市民の思いには無頓着で、橋本派の数によって橋本元首相が再度首相に選ばれる、である。
　　小泉氏が総理大臣になれた理由は「自民党をぶっ壊す」と言い、田中真紀子議員の自民党に対する痛烈な批判応援　で、国民は彼を選んだ。小泉前首相がなぜ高支持率を維持できたのか、国民の期待はいったい何であったのかについて、誰も明言しなかった。「道路公団民営化」「郵政民営化－民間に出来る事は、民間に。公務員がやる必要はない」小泉首相は、官僚制度にメスを入れ、そこに癒着していた自民党の組織基盤が崩れた。遠の昔に半世紀続いた与党を見放していた無党派は、小泉総理就任後、彼が自民党を支えていた組織を潰していく様を見て、小泉前首相を支持していたのであろう。しかし、彼は創り出す事ができず、国民生活も同時に壊れた。

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　　元々小泉劇場と騒ぎ政治を利用して劇場化したのは、テレビであり、国民ではない。民主主義に必ず伴わねばならない、権力に対するチェック＆バランスの観点からいえば、チェックはマスコミ記者、バランスは国民が担う。これが機能してこそ民主主義であり、可能であると証明されたのが、今回の参院選2007であったと考える。視聴率絶対主義のテレビがニュースを作ってしまう今、民意がきちんと反映されないと感じる無党派はそれぞれ自分の選挙区議員に、直接意見を述べてみてはどうか。（サイト下記）
激戦区の1つであった東京。民主党議員２人が当選したが、無党派の票を二番目に多く集めたのは、川田龍平氏だ。江戸時代から続く官僚制度。年金問題においても見られる様に、行政は国民の犠牲のもとに存続している。川田氏もその犠牲になった一人であり、彼を代表として国会へ、と考えた投票者は多かったであろう。
　　唯一の被爆国である日本の未来を、真剣に国民が考えてこそ戦争へと暴走した国を止められると信じる。戦場に行かされ、生き抜いた人々がその惨状を語り始めている。彼らの言葉を聞いて欲しい。


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Democracy of Political Independents

　　TV-oriented journalists were all taken by surprise to see the result of the Upper House election on July 29, saying “This is the crushing defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party”. They are always looking at politicians, not civilians so that they couldn’t have even imagined how strong people’s wrath was because those journalists bases their views about civilians only on opinion surveys. This election in fact clearly showed democracy of political independents.
When the Upper House election of 2001, the first national election in the 21st century was held, the move of the democratic political-independents, called “Wind” by the TV journalists, became explicit. First of all, almost all the TV-oriented journalists as well as political commentators had expected in advance that former prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto would be again the next prime minister by the number of his political clique, no chance for Mr. Koizumi. However, after Koizumi administration formed and he won a sweeping victory for the Upper House election in 2001 because a huge number of people voted for Liberal Democratic Party listening to him and Makiko Tanaka, then a Dietwoman, to say repeatedly that he would reform the nation even if it would result in breaking LDP. Actually he was able to become a prime minister with Makiko Tanaka’s strong support both having severely criticized LDP, and that grabbed attention from political independents.
　　No one has answered the question about why Koizumi administration maintained high approval rating until he left the office and where people’s expectation had been for him all the time. As seen in the privatization of Public Roads Administration as well as of postal service, Mr. Koizumi kept saying that private business could do the work much more effectively than public officials. Thus, people watched he cut deeply into vested interest of bureaucrats, which led to breaking organized votes, the supporting base for LDP by receiving benefits from bureaucracy. In contrast, political independents had already turned their back on bureaucracy and its alliance, LDP, and thereby supported Koizumi administration. However, he ended up broking the base of lives for middle-class at the same time.

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　　It needs to be clearly noted it was not viewers but TV that theatricalized Koizumi administration in the first place. Democracy has to have functioning check and balance closely watching those in power. The Upper House election of 2007 proved people were very much able to work as balance the power and press as check. TV stations totally occupied by viewer rating absolutism make news before they air these days, indifferent to reflecting popular will. Probably it is better for political independents to speak for themselves directly to diet representatives of their electoral districts respectively.
Tokyo was one of the closely-contested electoral districts in the election this time. Although both two candidates from Democratic Party of Japan won, Mr. Ryuhei Kawada received second-highest turnout from political independents and won the seat. The present bureaucracy which has been existing ever since Edo period, survives having sacrificed so many civilians as seen in the outrageous pension issue. Mr. Kawada was one of the sacrificed and especially political independents probably found his running worthy to send him to the Diet as a representative for them.
　　The Japanese have to think seriously about the future of Japan, the only nation ever struck with nuclear bombs. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop the country that has once gone to war uncontrollably. WWII survivors who were sent to the war have started talking about how horrible it was. Listen to them and listen carefully to what they tell.

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株価暴落の真相は？

　　２７日、日経平均株価が暴落し前日終値から418.28円安の17283円で引けた。米不動産株がこげついたため、ニューヨーク株式市場が急落したことに起因すると報道されている。これまで、円キャリー取引で大きな利益を得ていた米ヘッジファンドが、国内向けにサブ・プライム・ローンと呼ばれる高金利低所得者層向け住宅ローンを証券化し高利益を得てきたが、不良債権になる懸念が高まりその穴埋めに資金を引き上げたことが円高を進め日本市場に更に大きな影響をおよぼした、と大手銀行関連証券アナリストの多くが分析している。

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　　何か腑に落ちない。なぜなら、米住宅市場のバブルは何年も前から多くの専門家が指摘していた。米国のITバブルがはじけた後、景気復活の原動力になったのが不動産市場で、ここに目をつけたのが米ヘッジファンドである事も度々報道されていた。個人が買った不動産はうなぎ上り、転売して資産を増やす事が繰り返され、地上げは膨らんだ。その頃日本で盛んに売り出された投資商品はREIT。米不動産がポートフォリオの大半を占めるファンドだ。同時期、日本の株価と金利が低いため、個人投資家の間で外国国債投資商品が人気を集めた。そのポートフォリオも米国債が大きなパーセンテージを占めていた。
　　一方、２７日必死に自民党を支えている経団連大手企業の株価も下落した。その理由は誰も触れない。大規模なリストラ、労働者の職場環境は劣悪、政府から減税の恩恵を受けることで業績を大きく上げてきた大手企業。これまで、18,000円に近づくとこれらの企業株の確定売りをしていたのは日本国内の信託銀行だと言われている。その親会社は、国内のメガバンクであり弱者をターゲットにしたサラ金と資本提携している。サラ金業界の大赤字で銀行株が売られた矢先、日経平均株価が暴落した。日本の銀行は、公的資金投入、つまり国民の血税で生きることを許され市場空前の利益を上げているにも関わらず、税金を払っていない。つまり、アメリカ経済を支える商品を国民に売っておきながら、サラ金関連の赤字補填、米国不動産市場の悪化、そして参院選が近づき政府への逆風が予想より大きいと判断して、売り抜けようとしたため、その結果、日経平均株価大幅下落の重要な要因になったのではないか。

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What was Behind the Plunging Nikkei Stock Average?

　　On July 27 Nikkei Stock Average took a huge dive and closed down 418.28 yen from the day before at 17283 yen. According to the reports it was because the U.S mortgage market went soar leading to the plunge of the New York market. Until very recently the U.S investment companies specialized in hedge funds that have been making large profits through yen-carry trades gained high returns. They securitized real estate loan portfolio, called sub prime loans, high-yield funds for the low income group. However, many analysts say that the sub prime loan funds were viewed as bad debts and therefore, the hedge funds-specialized companies cashed out to cover the losses, which caused a rise in the exchange rate of yen influencing the stock market in Japan even worse.

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　　It doesn't make perfect sense. First, for years many economists pointed out that the U.S housing market was bubbling. Second, after the burst of the U.S IT bubbles, it was the housing market that became a driving force to lift its economy. There came investment companies that would sell hedge funds, which of course had been covered by the press very often. So, it has been well known that real estates individuals had bought got spiral rise, were resold producing increase in assets for those who had sold them, and consequently turned into the hikes of the estates in lands. During the same period in Japan, banks and securities companies actively engaged in selling commodities, called REIT, foreign real estate funds especially the U.S housing stocks dominating the portfolio. Moreover, both stock prices and interest rates in Japan were very low, enhancing popularity of foreign-bonds funds among individual investors in Japan. Again, the U.S bonds occupied a considerable percentage of the funds portfolio.
　　On July 27, the leading companies of Japan that belong to Japan Federation of Economic Organization faced drop in their stock prices. Nobody has really explained about why so far. These companies increased revenue by huge lay-offs, ignoring labor’s poor working environment, and benefits from tax break by the government.
　　In the past few months some analysts said when Nikkei Stock Average came close to 18,000yen, it was the trust banks of Japan that cashed out and thus, the average went down. Those trust banks’ corporate parents are the domestic mega-banks that form a capital alliance with loan sharks targeting the socially vulnerable. In fact, as soon as the loan sharks sank deep into the red resulting in selling bank stocks, Nikkei Stock Average tumbled down last week.
　　When the banks were on the verge of financial crisis, they were bailed out with taxpayers' money. In spite of the fact that they are now making record high profits, they do not pay tax for their revenues. In other words, the banks sold people commodities to support the U.S economy and cashed out because they maybe wanted to cover the loan-sharks-related deficit, knew very well about deteriorating the U.S mortgage market, and saw the wind against the leading parties of the government for the upcoming Upper House election being much stronger than they had thought. This could be the very important factor that led the downward spiral of the stock market in Japan last week.

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北九州市また餓死者

　　北九州市で１０日、生活保護を受けていた男性が餓死している事が分かった。この男性は病気で働けず、昨年末から生活保護を受けていたが、同市は今年４月生活保護を打ち切った。
　　日本では毎年５０人前後の餓死者が出ており、生活保護を受けられない人たちが多数を占める。北九州市は、報道で明らかになっただけでも、平成１６年から毎年、生活保護を打ち切って餓死者を出している。申請さえさせないというマニュアルが存在する事も、以前報道されたばかりだった。

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　　前回の 住民税引き上げの記事 で、全国の地方公共団体給与サイトを紹介したが、なぜかその後ブロックされて閲覧できなくなっているので、北九州市職員の給与を独自に調べ公開する。平成１７年度、彼らの年間平均給与は￥6,744,000。平成１８年度４月１日、つまり今回餓死した男性の生活保護を打ち切った月の平均給与は￥451,375。昨年末の冬のボーナスは平均￥722,200。
　　「おにぎりがたべたい」。これが亡くなった男性の最後に書き記した言葉だった。1人の人間の命を、いったいなんだと思っているのか。税金で豊かに暮らすことに慣れた、“公僕”はもはや想像さえできないのだろう。


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Kitakyushu City again Led a man on Welfare to Starving to Death
　　On July 10 a man found dead by starvation according to the district police. This man was so sick that he couldn't work and went on welfare at the end of last year. However, Kitakyushu City terminated his welfare in April this year.
　　In fact approximately 50 people starve to death every year in Japan, many of whom were rejected to receive welfare by their ward offices. As long as media reports, amazingly for 3 years in the row starting from 2005 one person has continued to die of starvation due to cut-offs welfare by the city. In fact, media has covered abnormality of the city that had the instruction manual about how to get away with people in suffer applying for welfare.

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　　Although the information in this past blog Inhabitant Tax Raise Applied to Public Servants introduced the site regarding the payments for local public organization, the site has been blocked. So here is the number of the average salary that Kitakyushu City officials received in 2005, 6.744 million yen. In 2007 as of April 1 meaning that in this very month they terminated the man's welfare got 451,375 yen a month. Their winter bonus was on the average 722,200 yen.
　　The man who starved to death left one sentence in his diary behind "I just want to eat a rice ball".
　　Do these supposed to be "public servants" ever think of what a human's life is worth? They have been so used to living well off on taxpayers' money that thay can not actually even imagine it.

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公僕の給料に当てられる住民税引き上げ

　　６月の給与明細を見たサラリーマン、住民税の納付通知書を受け取った自営業者そして年金生活者から、地方自治体に苦情が殺到しており、職員は対応に追われている。平成１８年度、ついに日本の年間平均サラリーマン給与は４４０万円を切った。一方、地方自治体勤務の公務員は、莫大な給与を貰っている。東京都の地方公務員一般職につく役所職員は、年間平均給与７,０９２,０７２円もの額を受け取っている。彼らの“勤勉手当”と呼ばれる夏のボーナスが、昨日６月２９日支給された。

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　　公務員は、英語でパブリック・サーヴァント、つまり公僕を意味するが、果たしてそういう意識が彼らに有るのだろうか。民間企業で３人の仕事を１人でこなさなければならないのが現状であるのに対し、区役所に行けば１人の仕事を３人でやっている様が見て取れる。
　　“改革には痛みを伴う”そう言われ、国民は痛みに耐え続けた。その痛みは、苦しく、辛く、そして現在も続いている。その結果、１日９０人もの人々が自ら命を絶っている。この間、本来公僕であるはずの公務員は、国民の税金で豊に生活を送っている。住民税は、もちろん地方公務員の給与に当てられる。自分の住む地区の区役所職員が、受け取っている給与に見合う仕事を行なっているのかどうか、それは国民それぞれが見極めるべき時ではないだろうか。総務省が「地方公共団体給与」として情報を公開している。（サイトURL下記）

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Inhabitant Tax Raise Applied to Public Servants

　　Workers at ward offices are busy corresponding to flooded protests by salaried man who saw their payment slips, self-employed individuals and pensioners who have all found huge raise of local tax enforced in this month. Last year, the fiscal year of 2006, the annual salary for office workers at private business went down less than 4.4 million yen. On the contrary, local-government workers receive a large amount of salary. Those at regular service in Tokyo got paid on the average 7,092,072 yen last year. Yesterday, on June 29 they received summer bonus, called "payment on hard work".

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　　In English civil officers are called public servants literally meaning people dedicating their work for a society. Are those in Japan aware of the meaning of it? In the private sector one person has to cover 3-men's work. In contrast, at ward offices you can see three people share 1-person's work.
　　Slogan "Reform accompanies pain" was thrown and people have endured the pain which has been so unbearable that it seems forever-lasting. As a result, in the Japanese society 90 people take their own lives everyday. During all this time civil workers have lived well off on taxpayers. Local tax raised this time certainly is applied to their salary and bonus paid twice a year.
　　It is high time that each every one of the people should take a close look at whether or not "public servants" at the ward offices of your districts deserve how much they get paid. Ministry of International Affairs and Communication gives information with regard to payments for local municipal organizations.
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速報！！年金問題続報 社保庁夏のボーナス満額

　　今回の年金問題に対して、これから“救済策”に莫大な税金が投入されることは、すでに決定されているようであるが、驚くべき事は、国民の年金を流用、着服してきた社会保険庁職員の夏のボーナスは、平均６４万円強。更に、今回の年金問題について一年前に追求され、何もせず、未だに情報を隠蔽している村瀬長官のボーナスは２７５万円、社会保険庁全体で、なんと１００億を越える血税が今月６月末彼らに支払われる。

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　　公務員のボーナスは、勤勉手当てと呼ぶらしい。今回明るみになった年金問題は、もはや“ずさん”ではなく、背任に等しいわけで、ボーナス支給など社会的常識の観点から言えば、有り得ない。解体して年金機構とやらに変え、非公務員だから首を切れると謳うが、給料は税金で支払われる。当初、オンライン化された際に、不備が起きたために年金の記録が消えた事が問題だとされていた。しかし、実際は、社会保障年金システムは、とっくの昔に社会保険庁によって壊されているという事が、日々明らかになる実態が裏づけている。公務員が加入している共済年金の元台帳記録は全て保存されているのもその１つだ。
　　年金相談件数が最近になって減少している為、参議院の投票日を延ばせば、国民の怒りはもっと治まる。治まらなくとも、政治に関心が薄れて投票に行かないから、組織票で選挙は勝てると思っている国会議員がいる。相談件数が減ったのは、職員に「うまくかわして」と支持された派遣社員が応答している事実が報道されたからなのに、だ。
　　経済大国と国際社会では呼ばれているが、政権交代ができない日本は本当に先進国であるのか。なぜなら、汚職、背任、入札談合、数え切れないほど問題が出ても、なお現状維持を選び続けたのは国民であり、現状がその結果なのである。この年金問題を機に、選挙の重さをしっかり考えたい。国を生かせるのは、国民であるからだ。

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Breaking News!! The Latest on the Pension Issue
- Summer Bonus for Social Insurance Agency -
　　It seemes that so-called remedies for the pension issue will be covered by a huge amount of taxpayers' money. What is more surprising is that the Social Insurance Agency's officials who have diverted and embezzled taxpayers' pension premiums for a long time, receive 640000 yen on the average as summer bonus. Moreover, Director-General of the agency, Murase will get 2.75 million yen, who has never taken any measure to deal with this pension issue since he was questioned severely and then, stated last year that he would closely look into it. Still now, he doesn't even disclose any information on the records of pension payments. As a whole, over 10 billion yen of tax will be handed to these people at the end of this month, June for their summer bonus.

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　　It is said that the bonus civil officials receive has a name, payment on hard work. What the agency has done all this time should be no longer called sloppy but equal to breach of duty. Therefore, from the viewpoint of society's common sense, bonus should be zero because there has been no hard work. On the one side, the agency is said to be unraveled and changed to a pension organization and there workers are no longer civil officials, meaning they will face lay-offs. On the other side, these non-civil officials's salary will still be covered by taxpayers' money.
At first, pension records were lost when the agency started online management.
　　However, the truth is that this social security system for pension was collapsed a long time ago by the hands of the agency, which new evidences revealed everyday totally back up. One of them is that Social Insurance Agency has kept all the ledgers for civil officials' pension records.
　　Nevertheless, some politicians think that as the number of inquiries regarding the pension payments on the hot-line set up by the agency is decreasing, taxpayers' anger will cool down if they postpone the election day of the Upper House currently scheduled on July 22. Also, even if it doesn't cool down, the voters in disgust will pay little attention to politics anyway so that the leading coalition with block vote will win as a result.　This is all wrong. The media reported that whoever you would talk to on the hot-line is a temporary worker that an official of the agency instructed "evade inquirer well".
　　In the international community, Japan is viewed as economic power. There is a question though if Japan is really an advanced nation with no history of change in administration over a half century. During these years, countless numbers of problems such as corruption, breach of duty, collusive bidding and etc have occurred. But still civilians have chosen to hold status quo, and the severe condition they are facing now, is its consequence. It is beyond doubt that this pension issue has to be the key for every one of Japanese to consider how important voting really is. The future of this nation is totally up to the people who live in it.

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セカンドライフ

　　クローズアップ現代が、先日セカンドライフを取り上げた。セカンドライフとは、サンフランシスコにあるゲームソフトを作るリンデンラボ社が始めたネット上の新しい３Ｄ空間のことである。登録したユーザーは同社がネット上に設けた仮想現実社会で自分の分身を創り第２の人生を生きる。その分身は、他の分身達と交流し、そしてセカンドライフの通貨リンデン・ドルを使って、起業、物の売買などもする事ができ、儲けが出れば実際に現金化する事ができる。
　　リンデン社のＣＥＯフィリップ・ローズデール氏は、セカンドライフの経済は年間６千万ドルを超えると話す。
５月１９日付けのファイナンシャル・タイムズ紙によると、すでに世界１００カ国から６百万以上の分身達が、このセカンドライフに居住しており、スポーツ用品メーカのリーボックもこの仮想現実社会、セカンドライフ上に店舗を開き、自社製品を販売しているとしている。

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　番組が取材したセカンドライフを楽しむという一人の男性は、自宅近くの工場で働く派遣社員で、彼は「悔しいけど、自分は負け組みだと思う」と話す。そうであろうか。彼は、今を生き、セコンドライフという新しい空間で楽しむ事で、同時に二つの人生を生きているのではないだろうか。
　　ほんの先ごろまで、社会に住む人々は、勝ち組み、負け組み、などと分類された。金銭的に余裕があり、ビジネスで成功し、社会地位のある人間が勝ち組みとされていた。しかし、メディアに登場していたその“勝ち組み”のなかには、詐欺、不正、違法行為が次々に明るみになっている。志や理念はとっくに捨て、自分の時間を楽しむ余裕さえ持たない上での社会的名誉など、社会に生きる多くの人間はそれほど価値など見出していないだろう。
　　成功者と呼ばれる者たちではなく、人々は“佐賀のがばいばあちゃん”を讃える、これが本当の現実だ。

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Second Life

　　The other day, the NHK TV program, close up Gendai, featured Second Life, a new 3-D digital online space created by game soft maker, Linden Lab corp. located in San Francisco. Registered users in the virtual-real society, Second Life, can live another life by creating an avatar. Then, the avatar through socializing with other avatars is able to found a company, sell, buy and simply enjoy the life there using the currency of Second Life, called Linden dollar. If a player, an avatar that is, makes profits, he or she can actually cash in the Linden dollars.
　　Linden CEO, Philip Rosedale says "the economy in Second Life is worth over 60 million dollars a year". According to Financial Times dated on May 19, the number of residents as avatars in Second Life is more than 6 million registered from 100 countries of the world. Reebok, too, has opened its shop in Second Life and sells its own sports-related goods.
　　

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　　One of the few men who enjoyed Second Life that the TV program interviewed was a temporary worker at a factory near his home. He said "I hate to admit but I think I am on the loser's side". Is he? He is facing where he is, and simply having fun in what is called "Second Life", meaning that he may be able to live two lives at the same time.
　　Until very recent days, people in the society were categorized into the groups of winners or losers. Those who have got money, succeeded in their business, and　earned status, are only called, "members of the winner group".
　　However, it has become known that quite a few of "the winners" who would even appeared on TV programs, have cheated, committed frauds and unlawful acts. Many living in the society do not really see any value in those with status who have thrown away their pure motivations they had in the beginning and have not been able to afford time to have fun. It was not the "winners" but the great grandmother of Saga prefecture people praise, and that is the true reality.
(Sano Tokunaga called the great grandmother of Saga prefecture from whom comedian, Yoshichi Shimada, learned a lot of wisdom when he lived with her as a little. He wrote about her and the lessons from her wisdom in his book which has been a mega hit, selling 7 million copies)

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