I should have inserted "the belief" after facilitates.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 7:48 PM -0800 4/2/03, Eugene Coyle wrote:
the loan facilitates the education that will lead to riches.
Does it?
>Money does not cause happiness, but it sure as hell is often necessary
>for the conditions within which _other_ things can bring about
>happiness.
Didn't Lou Reed say "Money can't buy you love, but it can get you a
Cadillac to go look for it"?
Tom
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Tom
troy cochrane wrote:
Having nothing to back this up other than observation, I think happiness
is much more related to community than it is to wealth. Unfortunately,
the wealthiest countries seem to lack or even have destroyed community.
By community I am meaning that you know and have an investm
Sabri, I liked it. I will get Michael Yates's book.
But I am thinking of institutions -- like students loans, for example --
that seduce people into the dream of being rich. First, the loan
facilitates the education that will lead to riches. And then paying the
loan requires the drive for mo
This relates to an item I saw in Adbusters once. A survey asked people how much money they would need to be happy and feel financially secure. Across the board, whether the CEO of a major corporations or some poor slob working for minimum wage, the answer was roughly "twice as much." People believe
Having nothing to back this up other than observation, I think happiness is much more related to community than it is to wealth. Unfortunately, the wealthiest countries seem to lack or even have destroyed community. By community I am meaning that you know and have an investment in your neighbours a
joanna bujes wrote:
>
> At 02:53 PM 04/02/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >There is a minor branch of economic (twig?) that studies the determinants
> >of happiness. Happiness does not seem to increase once a society reaches
> >about $15,000 a year. Happiness instead is determined by relative status.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 18:15:58 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky writes:
>Following the wisdom of my guru, the Sage of Saskatoon,
>I would qualify my remarks by noting that the interest
>in 'getting rich' is culture dependent in a society where
>incentives are biased in favor of individual consumptio
Eugene:
> With my post I was hoping to encourage a discussion -- and
> get an answer -- of how to make clear to the vast majority
> that their dreams of being rich will never be realized.
> Any help?
Gene,
How did you like my help?
Best,
Sabri
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From: "Max B. Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Following the wisdom of my guru, the Sage of Saskatoon,
> I would qualify my remarks by noting that the interest
> in 'getting rich' is culture dependent in a society where
> incentives are biased in favor of individual c
In a message dated 4/2/03 2:54:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
People expect, according to surveys, more wealth to make them happy, but
happiness seems to depend upon relative status. So if the person in the
mirror wants to get rich, on some level he needs to know that ther
In a message dated 4/2/03 2:17:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know the failure rate is high.
But a person could fail more than once
and still make it eventually. The real
issue I think is mobility. We know there's
a lot of immobility. Make it numbingly simple.
Suppose
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On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 17:19:54 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky writes:
>I know the failure rate
Your problem is that you want to solve
somebody's problem for them.
The government's problem I would say is setting
the rules to facilitate individual or cooperative
efforts, not to try to preclude them, nor to guarantee
their success.
For those who fail, there would remain social insurance.
mbs
At 02:53 PM 04/02/2003 -0800, you wrote:
There is a minor branch of economic (twig?) that studies the determinants
of happiness. Happiness does not seem to increase once a society reaches
about $15,000 a year. Happiness instead is determined by relative status.
Economists are clueless. To quote K
There is a minor branch of economic (twig?) that studies the determinants
of happiness. Happiness does not seem to increase once a society reaches
about $15,000 a year. Happiness instead is determined by relative status.
People expect, according to surveys, more wealth to make them happy, but
ha
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 17:19:54 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky writes:
>I know the failure rate is high.
>But a person could fail more than once
>and still make it eventually. The real
>issue I think is mobility. We know there's
>a lot of immobility. Make it numbingly simple.
>Suppose you have a
I know the failure rate is high.
But a person could fail more than once
and still make it eventually. The real
issue I think is mobility. We know there's
a lot of immobility. Make it numbingly simple.
Suppose you have a 90 percent chance of getting
nowhere, and a 10 percent chance of getting
som
What's the difference?
The individual will prefer to be the judge of whether he or she
ought to put in the effort required to beat the odds.
mbs
I don't tell people that they'll never get rich. Rather, I present the
evidence and logic that says that only a small percentage of them will.
Wierdly enough, the idea that people can become rich worked less during
the 60's when the likelihood of becoming well off was higher. How much is
the fear of being poor operative today rathern than a dream of becoming
rich?
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:02:19PM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
> it makes
In a message dated 4/2/03 10:36:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One way of making
clear to the vast majority that their dreams of being rich will
never be realized is to publish more books like that. Maybe even
in a simpler language. Another possibility is offering courses a
That's nuts. You know the failure rates for small business better than I do. I just know that it is very high. And how amny of self-employed or entrepreneurs go into their 60s (or 70s) with enough to retire on decently? jks
"Max B. Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Better, I say, to have a pol
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36410] RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"
it makes more sense to start with existing political movements and existing discontents and try to link up and build on the ones that promise a better chance of building a movement that will change the balance of po
> Better, I say, to have a political program
that speaks to individuals' ability to take
the most practical route out of wage slavery --
going into business for themselves.
I presume you mean collectively, in coops and the like? jks
>
Facilitating coops is important, but
> Better, I say, to have a political programthat speaks to individuals' ability to takethe most practical route out of wage slavery --going into business for themselves.
I presume you mean collectively, in coops and the like? jksDo you Yahoo!?
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In a message dated 4/1/03 2:56:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With my post I was hoping to encourage a discussion -- and get an answer
-- of how to make clear to the vast majority that their dreams of being
rich will never be realized. Any help?
Gene Coyle
The capita
It sounds like a formula for political
failure: telling people they can never
do much better than they're doing at
present. What a bummer.
It's doubly problematic, as all here can
appreciate, for a worker to hear this from
a middle class intellectual type.
I suggest that hope will always spring
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From: "Forstater, Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:33 PM
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> The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious t
With my post I was hoping to encourage a discussion -- and get an answer
-- of how to make clear to the vast majority that their dreams of being
rich will never be realized. Any help?
Gene Coyle
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is that they are celebrating a world in which people hold on stubbornly
to fantasies of material prosperity, even though it is clear that for
the vast majority the dreams will never be fulfilled. What'
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is that they are celebrating a world in which people hold on stubbornly
to fantasies of material prosperity, even though it is clear that for
the vast majority the dreams will never be fulfilled. What's to
celebrate?
-Ori
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> the WSJ writes: >Few Americans see a rich person when they look in the
> mirror, but nearly
> a third see a rich person when they look into a crystal ball. That's the
> striking result of a Gallup poll that goes a long way
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