Though not popular I have got to admit that some of what you say is actually fairly interesting to think about, Gus. Of course, I also find watching and reading speeches given by Hitler very interesting and educational, but I'm no fan of his. Not that I'm comparing you to Hitler, of course.
To your point: the wealth effect, to a degree, is happening in the first world today (though we're beginning to wise up). the incentive, today, is ALWAYS there to find more (financially) efficient means of production - capitalism and competition amongst ourselves (in the first world at least) drives this today. the idea that a "significant" number of 1st world workers and their children, don't feel the need to work hard is preposterous. 90% of the wealth is controlled by 1% of the population. What percentage constitutes "significant"? Certainly much more than one percent, right? You assert that people (or their "kids" anyways) are more inclined to not work hard when there are "plenty of jobs". Has there ever been a proven direct correlation between how hard people work and the number of available jobs in the job market? Not that I know of (but I'm not saying there hasn't been). If there are plenty of jobs, and you work significantly less than hard, you still get fired. Get fired enough times and the fact that there are plenty of jobs just means there are plenty of opportunities that you could take advantage of if it weren't for the fact that NOBODY will hire you if you're a crap worker. Continuing with your points: "3rd World workers, seeing the relative wealth they lack and the path to get it (free trade!), get hungry and try to grab the brass ring"? I'm sorry Gruss - but that really is just plain dumb. When you're from the third world, pretty much everything else IS a brass ring... and hell yeah, you're going to go for it... whether the path makes sense or not. It's called survival.... lots of people in the third world go through it on a daily basis. I don't mean to rag on you, and I generally stay way the hell out of sensitive discussions (politics, religion, race, CF best practices, etc.) but just had to chime in on this one for fun. When you didn't stay quiet after your "people near the equator are more likely to be poor" comment (which is absurd in and of itself), you just made it far too easy. ~Simon Simon Horwith Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Master Instructor http://www.horwith.com Gruss Gott wrote: > So let me try this one on you - tell me what you think: > > What if this 19th century "wealth effect" was happening today except > in the 1st World countries? > > Remember the concept: due to abundance of basic needs items (food) > there is less incentive to develop advanced methods of production > (which is basic supply and demand). > > What if a significant number of 1st World workers, content with their > modern basic needs items (houses, boats, and cars), have decided that > they don't need to work so hard? And that their kids don't either > because, hey, there are plenty of jobs. > > In the meantime 3rd World workers, seeing the relative wealth they > lack and the path to get it (free trade!), get hungry and try to grab > the brass ring. > > What do you think the effect would be and is this happening? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245489 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
