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Beyond the educational system. Flexibility against immobility.

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The beginning of the teaching           Passing the primary knowledge from one generation to another is not a radical new idea for humans and it could trace back even to the animal kingdom when the essential skills, like what food is not poisonous or where to find water to what animals to avoid, helped the creatures to survive. In the same matter knowledge passed from parents to children of humans, for instance parents taught they offsprings how to build a shelter or how to hunt or what month is most favorable to sow the plants seeds. This knowledge was limited to occupation and regional displacement and most of the times the peasants were sharp, clever and skilled enough in their physical field but couldn't even read or write. Intellectual property was at different scale and status and could be reached only among wealthy and noble families where very few had access to royal court. [1] The main learning in the royal court differed widely from what the...

Langkawi. Duty free island.

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                    From the early unnoticeable beginning of first duty free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947 [1] to an expanded industry that grew constantly to encounter a network of around 2200 [2] retail outlet stores with a multi billion tax free turnover across the entire world from Canada to Japan and South Africa to Iceland. Tiny spots on the geographical divided map, became international modest places, yet convinced by the succeed market success of major scale in the national limits of border lines. Beside the international spirit and free tax trade touch who benefit from lifted duties and tax exemption? Are the buyers or the sellers? Maybe both or perhaps someone else? What do government have to win from these merchandise paradises? First thing that come in untrained mind is the problematic conjunction of the state and companies where unpaid tax don't land in national budget but on other hand not to empha...