Re: [Keuangan] Free Ride Economics
imho, Ttg kapitalisme sy selalu teringat cerita yg sangat populer ttg dua org di hutan yg akan di terkam harimau dgn moral cerita bahwa yg penting kita lebih baik dr lawan kita. Kapitalisme = kompetisi, dalam kompetisi (yg mrpk bagian utama dr kapitalisme) tidak penting apa dan berapa besar hadiah yg disediakan, tapi yg terpenting kita dapat mengalahkan lawan. Ini esensi dr kapitalisme. Zero sum game. Credo yg berlaku winner takes all, yg berujung pada greedy. pisss --- On Fri, 5/1/09, Bali da Dave dfa...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bali da Dave dfa...@yahoo.com Subject: [Keuangan] Free Ride Economics To: Ahli Keuangan AhliKeuangan-Indonesia@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 5:23 PM An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name calling all resulted in hard feelings as no one would study any longer for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because under capitalism when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when the government levels the playing field and takes more of reward away; no one will try or want to succeed as much as before. Could not be any simpler than that…. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [Keuangan] Free Ride Economics
Hi, Bisa sharing ga cerita lengkapnya bagimana? Saya belum pernah baca tuh. Thanks ya. --- On Sat, 5/2/09, Febi Febianto febianto...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Febi Febianto febianto...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Keuangan] Free Ride Economics To: AhliKeuangan-Indonesia@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 3:02 PM imho, Ttg kapitalisme sy selalu teringat cerita yg sangat populer ttg dua org di hutan yg akan di terkam harimau dgn moral cerita bahwa yg penting kita lebih baik dr lawan kita. Kapitalisme = kompetisi, dalam kompetisi (yg mrpk bagian utama dr kapitalisme) tidak penting apa dan berapa besar hadiah yg disediakan, tapi yg terpenting kita dapat mengalahkan lawan. Ini esensi dr kapitalisme. Zero sum game. Credo yg berlaku winner takes all, yg berujung pada greedy. pisss [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[Keuangan] Free Ride Economics
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name calling all resulted in hard feelings as no one would study any longer for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because under capitalism when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when the government levels the playing field and takes more of reward away; no one will try or want to succeed as much as before. Could not be any simpler than that…. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
