The Importance Of Plumbing
A tale of tax, utopia, and human faeces:
The fragrant sentiments above, mouthed by Danish couple Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk, concern their creation, in Sweden, of a “forest resort” named Stedsans, one met with much acclaim:
Dish magazine hailed the project as “Seasonal, sustainable, organic, artisanal, waste-free, foraged.” While readers of EasyJet Traveller magazine were told that the resort is “A new way of living that’s as sustainable as it is delicious.”
For Ms Helbæk and Mr Hansen, the name of the resort, which is Danish for “sense of place,” reflects “which direction we need to go as a society.” The couple, who refer to themselves as “soul-driven entrepreneurs,” shared their vision:
All terribly inspiring. Scenes of this idyll can be savoured here.
However,
The output of those sixteen charming cottages, one assumes. I’ll let any passing enthusiasts of arithmetic have fun with that one.
Ah yes. “A way of living that respects all forms of life.” Conjured into being by “soul-driven entrepreneurs.”
According to an investigation by Dagens Nyheter and Politiken, Ms Helbæk and Mr Hansen had left Denmark owing “millions of kroner in debt to Danish tax authorities,” before moving to Sweden, where they accumulated further tax debt of six million SEK.
Sustainability, baby.
You may now resume your humdrum, unenlightened, non-artisanal lives.
Via Samizdata.
It’s like you blog commenters have abandoned the classics:
Post punk, punk band name. You know the kind. Spiky hair, snarls but designer shoes.
In real music related news…There is just waaaay too much to digest in this story from California…
Weezer Bassist’s Wife Shot by Police After Opening Fire on Hit and Run Suspects in Her Neighborhood
Is this an example of the Marxist labour theory of value being applied to real life?
That woman on the right sounds an unpleasant sort.
Notice how important it is for her to push the fictional narrative being presented by Netflix. I take it they are discussing that show where they took an actual rape story and flipped the perpetrator from being a black kid to a white kid? I didn’t know that that was on Netflix, I thought that was a bbc thing. Or am I confusing two different stories?
Where to start? She is right, in some kind of limited way – Adolescence has made a big impact on kids and parents (I guess – I have no interest) – but so what? Harry Potter made a big impact, at least on kids – but I never heard calls for people to base their understanding of boarding schools on Snape’s conduct. The rape gang / grooming scandal has also had a big impact on kids and parents – and that’s been a real-world phenomenon, with real world victims, as well as real-world enablers, dissemblers and protectors.
They think the men are being horrible rotten people for not continuing to work under the new conditions.
Wreckers and saboteurs.
I am currently full of fish and chips.
End message.
Don’t forget Kulaks.
It all ends up in the barrel.
Don’t harsh my buzz, man.
We can always add some nasturtiums.
Have some carrots and leaves.
[ Considers possibility of indecently large piece of chocolate cake. ]
Stedsans is closed.
Can’t imagine why. It was a blow to their pride. So there’s that.
[ Sounds of gorging. ]
The bystanders did nothing wrong.
Women think they have a lock on virtue, but I just want to point out that during the witch trials, most of the accused were poor women without men to defend them (widows, single) and they had multiple women accusing them–to a potential death penalty.