http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS Nations whose governments give free handouts to the unemployed have a falling workforce rate.
Lonnie Courtney Clay On Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:16:06 AM UTC-7, Lonnie Clay wrote: > > 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.
