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**joanbertis** · 11-23-2011, 05:56 PM

Our whole system is based on incentive and reward.. The second we see an incentive, we step in to crush it and deny the reward.

Nobody gives a fuck about people on the lowest end of the economic ladder.. As long as we get a deck built cheap, then we could really care less what happens to them.

However, when you're talking about the upper end of the economic strata.. You're talking about an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of their lives.

All other factors and theories aside, that's what they're weighing when they take the plunge. Telling them that you're going to open the floodgates of the world on them is not going to affect that calculation in a favorable way.. Telling them that the pie will grow may be correct in the long run.. It may not. What may happen instead is: Yes, the pie grew.. There's more jobs, accompanied by a collapse in wages, and wages are what they're betting on..

I know I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.. And if I were, why wouldn't I bet on something much more concrete? Like a government job forever? Like anything, really, that looked like it had decent earning potential, stability that the government wouldn't arbitrarily undermine and a much lower barrier to entry?

11-23-2011, 05:56 PM	#19
joanbertis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	Our whole system is based on incentive and reward.. The second we see an incentive, we step in to crush it and deny the reward. Nobody gives a fuck about people on the lowest end of the economic ladder.. As long as we get a deck built cheap, then we could really care less what happens to them. However, when you're talking about the upper end of the economic strata.. You're talking about an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of their lives. All other factors and theories aside, that's what they're weighing when they take the plunge. Telling them that you're going to open the floodgates of the world on them is not going to affect that calculation in a favorable way.. Telling them that the pie will grow may be correct in the long run.. It may not. What may happen instead is: Yes, the pie grew.. There's more jobs, accompanied by a collapse in wages, and wages are what they're betting on.. I know I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.. And if I were, why wouldn't I bet on something much more concrete? Like a government job forever? Like anything, really, that looked like it had decent earning potential, stability that the government wouldn't arbitrarily undermine and a much lower barrier to entry?
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