Worldwide economies are foundering upon the rocks of modern entertainments. I'll make the case for that. The rational response of a person to a stimulus is to do more of those things which bring pleasure rather than punishment or boredom. With the rise of fiction in all of its forms, a person can gain pleasure from imagined world-scapes outside of the "real" world's boundaries of experience. The pleasure of working life achievement is limited to those who are both talented and trained to exercise their talents. So which one do people choose when given the alternatives? They increasingly choose entertainment, escaping from their fruitless humdrum day to day existences into imaginary worlds of achievement. One reason for that is the lack of opportunities in the modern economy resulting from the failure of the educational systems to prepare people for productive working careers. Another is the cultural shift towards self-gratification rather than service to society. A third is the diminished rewards from working resulting from the marginal reduction of income increase resulting from government's taxation of wages economic activity. Why work harder to gain more income when the government takes away more and more as your income rises? Yet another is the diminished cost of life's necessities and modest luxuries due to increased efficiency of production from product mass manufacturing. Why work harder when you have everything which you need?
These factors result in diminished work force participation, the rise of the welfare class, fewer employees working hard, market dislocations, and diminished work ethics. Lonnie Courtney Clay On Friday, April 12, 2013 7:48:51 AM UTC-7, nominal9 wrote: > > Because it is so screwed up throughout the world that not fixing it is > bound to lead to great social upheaval?????..... I think so. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
