Would you like to work fewer hours for the same pay? You may think this is obvious, but it is a serious question that employees and employers are beginning to ask.
The following excerpts from an online article predict the 4-day work week will result from COVID-related burnout. We, however, believe the number of working hours will shrink, but not only from burnout but from factors even more fundamental.
“Burnout” is a state of mind. It represents a divergence from what is considered acceptable.
Dull, repetitive jobs, without a sense of accomplishment, plus pressure to keep up, error-free, can lead to burnout.
Years ago, more people worked 6-day weeks. They might not have enjoyed the experience, but they didn’t “burn out.” They just kept going, because it was seen as normal.
Today, many parents, especially single parents, work 6 or even 7 days a week caring for their children, caring for their homes and lives, and even have 2nd or 3rd jobs, just to survive.
They may not allow themselves to “burn out.” They just trudge ahead.
Some business owners work 7 days a week, building their businesses. If a business is successful, the owner probably will not burn out. But when the business struggles, burnout could come quickly.
That provides a clue to what burnout really is. It may not be related to hours, but more importantly to feelings of accomplishment, human relationships, or importantly, the lack thereof.
Consider your own situation. Do you work in:
*A relatively mindless, repetitive job, for which there is no “winning,” no sense of accomplishment?
*A job in which any error you make will be criticized, but if you make no errors, no one will notice?
*A job you never can finish, and you feel under pressure to keep up?
*A dreary job that has no “happy” days, only misery days?
*A lonely job where you have no friends or are unable to take time to converse with your fellow employees?
*A job where you are surrounded by disgruntled employees or disgruntled bosses.
If so, you may be ripe for burnout. Consider that as you read these excerpts:
People are burned out and quitting their jobs. Could a 4-day work week help?By Tracey Anne DuncanJune 24, 2021The pandemic changed the way many of us perceive our jobs. Working from home became the norm for people privileged enough to do so — and as a result, working in offices has started to seem burdensome and a bit nonsensical. Now that some businesses are starting to require people to go back to actual physical workplaces, a large swath of people are either quitting their jobs, or seriously considering quitting.
Keep in mind that the author is talking about people who had out-of-home jobs and were satisfied. Then they began to work at home, and having recently returned to their previous workplace, find themselves burned out.
To combat the resignation pandemic, Japan is proposing a nationwide four-day work week. Could a shorter work week help remedy people’s newly exacerbated disgust with the office?It’s pretty surprising that Japan is the country leading the way to more relaxed options for workers, because the country is known for its, um, intense work culture. There’s even a Japanese word — karoshi — that translates to “death by overwork.” To combat burnout, Japan unveiled a plan this week to make working 32 hours a week the new normal.It’s not just the Japanese government that thinks working fewer hours might be a solution to overwork. Kickstarter announced Tuesday that it is instituting a 32 hour work week without reducing pay, and the Prime Ministers of both Finland and New Zealand have also entertained the idea, reported the Washington Post. Also, Spain decided back in March that it would be experimenting with a three-year test run of the 32-hour work week.The four-day work week is an idea that has been floated off and on since the 1970s. So, what’s making both nations and big corporations reconsider the traditional 40-hour work week now? Well, firstly, working during a global crisis has led to widespread burnout for many, and some experts also think a more reasonable set of hours is a way to make themselves more attractive to a new generation of workers.“Younger people are demanding more out of their work environment than just a paycheck,” professor of business law at the University of Connecticut, told The Washington Post. “They want to work with someone who believes in their values — and the expression of a four-day workweek sends a signal that the company cares about work-life balance in a significant and meaningful way.”
Another clue.
The problem is not the workweek or the work hours.The problem is the “signal.” People want to feel appreciated.
People want to feel their efforts have meaning. People do not want to feel constant, unremitting pressure with no reward.
Most of the research about decreasing the number of hours people work doesn’t decrease their productivity. In fact, working fewer hours could make people more productive. Microsoft introduced the four day work week to employees in Japan in August of 2019, and they found that it increased productivityby 40%, reduced the waste the company created, and reduced the amount of electricity the company used. Plus, 94% of employees were happy with it, reported the Post.
There are issues beyond initial results. Burnout occurs over weeks, months, years, even decades and can be attributed to many factors.
One factor not mentioned is the effect of the research itself. Giving people an extra day off, or an extra hour-per-day off creates a change from the grinding sameness of many jobs.
Increased worker productivity can lead to reduced worker hours. Is this man’s job interesting and stimulative or dull and stressful?
The very fact of change, or the participation in an experiment, can provide an exhilaration that temporarily can offset feelings of burnout.
We do not know whether years of 32 hour weeks, either via a day off per week, or time off per day, would yield the same results.
The ordinary, the commonplace, the dull, the repetitive — all may be precursors to burnout, and mere change could prevent it.
Another factor to consider: Automation. Computers, particularly “smart” computers, can increase perceived productivity by allowing one human worker to accomplish more. Worker productivity is not so much a worker’s function as it is a tool function.
That means today’s interesting job could be tomorrow’s dull job if much of the interesting parts are handled by computers. There is a vast difference between analyzing data to make decisions vs. punching in data to read a computer’s decisions.
The former can be interesting and stimulating; the latter can be dull.
Yet another factor is global warming plus the use of the earth’s resources. The home-work-home roundtrip is inefficient. The use of fossil fuels along with transportation vehicles contributes very little to productivity while wasting our precious and limited life’s time.
I expect governments soon will begin to reward companies that encourage and implement work-at-home, while also rewarding employees who do the same.
And then, there is the spare-time factor, and what to do with it. Retired people work as little as 0 hours per week, and many of them struggle to find something interesting to occupy their hours — especially true if life spans increase.
They can experience a form of burnout from doing nothing.
And finally, the question: What is the purpose of work? For most working people, the purpose of work is to acquire money, i.e. to acquire security and pleasure.
But money is nothing more than a spreadsheet notation, which our Monetarily Sovereign federal government has the unlimited ability to produce.
Bangladeshi sewer cleaner. Unthinkable in America today.
Without delving into the complex argument, “should the federal government give everyone money,” there is no question that the federal government can give everyone money.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, poverty aids have reduced for many people the desperate need to labor at the most unpleasant jobs — the jobs most likely to lead to burnout.
SUMMARY
The topic of “burnout” is amazingly complex. No one factor is responsible, and no one action can prevent it. In fact, even the word itself means different things to different people.
The commonality may be feelings of negative exhaustion, futility, hopelessness along with the strong need for change.
There was a time when people were expected to come to central work locations and to work longer hours than today’s standard 40 hour week.
Thus, for the many reasons described above, the incidence of burnout may not necessarily correlate only to hours of work, either over the short or the long term, but more importantly, the nature of the work.
That said, average hours worked probably will continue to decline, mostly because improved computers and machine learning will transfer many jobs from human-skill to computer-skill.
The challenge for businesses will be to help enrich the working, and even the non-working hours, so that burnout becomes less likely an issue.
I suggest that the traditional 40 hour week will disappear as
People become more accustomed to, and manufacturers will provide, improved versions of distance communication (i.e. large-screen Zoom, et al)
Computerization and machine learning make distance working more feasible
Productivity continues to increase allowing people to accomplish more in fewer hours
The economy learns how to entertain people whose personal time is more flexible.
The federal, state, and local governments provide incentives to distance work, in an effort to combat global warming and to reduce resource usage.
Humans, perhaps uniquely among species, increasingly have focused on labor-saving.
That focus combined with advanced computerization can lead to a decline in drudgery and burnout — along with hours worked and working distance from home.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
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I’m 86 years old. I already have lost my wife, and even with the most favorable of circumstances, I don’t have much time, and certainly, not much good time, left to enjoy.
So, in the past few years, I had begun to believe in a bleak, short future.
Psychopathic Donald Trump and his immoral, bigoted, hate-mongering acolytes have gained sway.
The amoral Mitch McConnells, the Lindsey Grahams, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes have risen, not on the basis of any good works, but rather because they appeal to the basest instincts of humanity.
Even a vicious and violent attack on Congress, attempting to overthrow the foundation of American democracy — our elections — no longer provokes outrage, at least among the millions who are committed to Trumpism.
The ongoing efforts to restrict voting rights, women’s rights, healthcare, and aid for the needy have received near-unanimous voting support from one of our two, major political parties.
Everywhere I turn, I see acrimony, malice, and prejudice replacing respect, love, and human concern.
So, just when I was ready to give up on the America of “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” — just when I believed that the “Shining city on a hill” of which Ronald Reagan often spoke — just when I believed my America was irretrievably lost, I came upon this article:
Rachelle Zola
‘Am I willing to die for this?
’ By Nara Schoenberg Chicago Tribune, nschoenberg@chicagotibune.com
She’s white. She’s 73. And she’s on a 40-day hunger strike for slavery reparations. Rachelle Zola began the 40-day, all-liquid hunger strike to support HR 40, a House bill that would set up a commission to study reparations.
Ms. Zola had never been to Chicago. She didn’t have friends or family here. But in summer 2019, she bought a 1969 Mercury Sable with no heat and an oil leak, and drove here from Tucson, Arizona, with a single goal.
Zola wanted to live among Black and brown people. She went to the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, and began attending meetings and seminars, theatrical productions, symposiums and conferences.
She accepted every invitation, telling those who were curious that she was there to listen and learn.
“Everybody was like, this white woman keeps showing up,” Zola said, laughing. But Zola, a former special education teacher who joined the Peace Corps at age 59, pressed on. Deeply moved by the stories of racism she heard in Chicago, she started sharing them on YouTube.
And then, on May 16, she took a step that was even more radical. She embarked on a hunger strike on behalf of one of the most ambitious and elusive goals of the U.S. racial justice movement: reparations — or making amends through payments or policy — to Black people for slavery.
This is the point at which the bigots, the haters, and the deniers leave the “shining city.” They try to diminish the true horror of slavery and its long-lasting effects that even today, stain our land.
Bright-eyed and energetic during a recent interview, Zola has made it to Day 32 of her all-liquid diet of water, Pedialyte and bone broth. “My question to myself was, am I willing to die for this? And it became ‘yes’ because of all of the (Black and brown) people I know,” Zola said.
“Am I willing to die for my brothers and my sisters when there’s an injustice? The answer is yes.”
Still, she said, she won’t knowingly put her health in danger, and at this point she’s doing well. Her hunger strike, which she hopes will extend to at least day 40, has received support from Dominican University in River Forest, and she’s being hosted during the day by Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park, where she sits on the front lawn, ready to talk to passersby.
Zola’s specific demand is that Congress pass HR 40, a bill establishing a federal commission to hold hearings on slavery and discrimination, and to recommend remedies.
The bill was first introduced more than 30 years ago.
Zola is a bit of a mystery — sometimes even to her closest friends: She’s an intensely spiritual person who receives callings to go to out-of-the-way places and perform daunting tasks. A world traveler who makes friends — and dispenses hugs — with astonishing speed.
In Chicago, she wants to be a conduit for other people’s stories — a white person who can capture the attention and curiosity of other white people.
She bristles with outrage and hurt as she tells the story of a 17-year-old Black girl who, upon noticing the scared faces of two white passersby, thought there was something terrible behind her, perhaps a mad dog.
But when the girl turned and looked, Zola said, there was nothing, and the girl realized that she, herself, was the object of the strangers’ terror.
We digress, for a moment, to point out the “whataboutisms” and the denialsthat exist among those who have not personally experienced bigotry. Consider Trump appointee and former Attorney General, William Barr:
And he cited an old quote from Jesse Jackson as “proof” that being afraid of Blacks doesn’t make you (i.e. him) a racist.
I wonder how many Black people who have been needlessly stopped by the police Barr has actually talked to. I’m going to guess none.
Meanwhile, get ready for your jaw to drop as Barr pointed to racist behavior by Blacks to justify racist behavior by whites. It was part of a lengthy interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN today.
Barr: “Racism usually means, you know, that I believe that because of your race, you’re a lesser human being than me and I think there are people in the United States that feel that way. but I don’t think it is as common as people suggest.
“And I think we have safeguards to ensure that it doesn’t really have an effect on someone’s future.“
BLITZER: “There’s no doubt there’s been a lot of progress. but do you think Black people are treated differently by law enforcement than white people?”
BARR: “I think there are some situations where statistics would suggest that they are treated differently. but I don’t think that that’s necessarily racism.
“Didn’t Jesse Jackson say that when he looks behind him and he sees a group of young black males walking behind him, he’s more scared than when he sees a group of white youths walking behind him? Does that make him a racist?”
Here we have Trump’s Attorney General, the man who occupied America’s highest Justice Department position, claiming that being “treated differently” because of your skin color is not racism (What is it, then?)
And that racism “doesn’t really have an effect on someone’s future.”
And racism “isn’t common” and “there’s been progress,” (so why worry about it?) and even Jesse Jackson is afraid of black men, but that isn’t racist. (Except if it isn’t racist, what was he afraid of?)
“Whataboutisms” and denials — in short, “Racism is rare, and I’m not a racist, but even blacks are racist, so being treated “differently” is OK.”
It’s the garbled excuses similar to, “I never did it and I won’t do it again.”,
Zola also recalled the story of a Black man who attended a parent-teacher conference for his son, then in sixth grade. The teacher acknowledged that the man’s son was doing his work and performing well, but still, there was a concern.
The son was rude, the teacher said, asking pointed questions in class. The man noted that his son was just doing what kids are supposed to do in a learning environment. A white boy would have been praised for such curiosity and initiative, he said.
And then there were the injustices closer at hand. On a crystal-clear morning Monday, Zola was joined at a table in front of Cosmopolitan United Church, as she often is, by her friend Mazell Sykes, 71, of Maywood.
The duo met early in Zola’s Chicago odyssey when Zola visited the North Lawndale Justice Community Court, where Sykes leads peace circles. The two women, one Black, one white — both with short hair, long bangs, eye-catching necklaces and “Rachelle for H.R. 40? T-shirts — chatted easily and laughed at each other’s jokes, but the mood shifted when a reporter asked Sykes what had brought her out in the hot sun.
She spoke about slavery in general, and about rape in particular. “The thing that would get me the most is that a white man could take a Black girl, a Black woman, and have sex with her, and she had no rights, and he could do that as often as he wanted. It was nothing,” she said.
“I just want people to just, down in their gut, imagine how that would feel, if someone did that to you. I was raped when I was a kid, so I know how it feels, but it only happened to me one time. But just think that you live in this situation, and you know this man can come and have you whenever he wants you.
“Can you just in your gut feel, how would you go on after that?”
Actually, no. The men who run America, particularly the white supremacist, bigoted conservatives of today, cannot feel in their gut what being raped feels like.
They, like Barr, claim it’s rare but also common, non-existent but even blacks do it, and things are getting better, even though they weren’t bad before, so why get upset about it?
Growing up in Mississippi, the descendent of slaves, she had to skip school three days at a time — to pick cotton, she said. “It’s not a game, it’s not a fairy tale. We lived it,” she said.
“The white man would come to my father’s house at night, and he would tell my father, tomorrow I need this whole field chopped. So that means your children aren’t going to school tomorrow.”
She and her siblings would cry, she said, and the other kids would laugh at them as they rode by in the school bus. “When we did go to school, just imagine: me missing three days of class. What can the teacher teach me? Where would she start? And then, if she gave me homework or makeup work, how was I going to do it? It was a vicious cycle, and this — this was my life in Mississippi.”
Has Mississippi changed so much, now? Has Alabama? Georgia? Louisiana?
Is an inordinate number of American blacks being shot by American police? Are police denying and covering up the killings of blacks, even when confronted with body camera footage?
What happens when there is no video to support the black victim’s version?
Zola, who grew up on Long Island, said she didn’t have a Black friend until 2015, and that while she was outraged after the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers in 1991, she didn’t go out and protest.
The point isn’t guilt, she said; that’s not what she’s about. The point is the depth of the suffering that Black people have experienced and continue to experience, and how easy it can be for white people to look the other way.
“I look at myself as a case study,” she said. “How could I get to be this age and not know the harm? The quick answer is I wasn’t reading those books. I wasn’t reading ‘Just Mercy.’ I wasn’t reading ‘The New Jim Crow.’ I wasn’t reading any of it. What’s amazing now? ‘The Long Shadow’ — that documentary of 90 minutes — if that doesn’t touch your heart, I don’t know what will.”
Zola was 59, married to the love of her life and painting the walls of their rental home in Colorado when she was hit by a deep, unshakable knowledge that she was supposed to leave the country. “It was shocking for both of us,” she said of herself and her then-husband, from whom she was divorced seven years ago.
She felt she had no choice but to go; he said he’d stay — this was her path, not his.
She called the Peace Corps, and within months, the former special education teacher was in Jordan, training teachers. The experience, she said, was intense and transformative. People gave her candy, food and drinks. They watched out for her and helped her.
“I never felt such love as I felt in Jordan,” she said. In 2015, she went on a personal pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan, walking 700 miles in 67 days with a 25-pound backpack. She went to Ecuador in 2016, after a series of earthquakes hit the country, and worked in a children’s home. She also lived and worked in Mexico.
Jordan, Japan, Ecuador, Mexico, and yet she was being true to the American self-view that proclaims:
“The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
She is far more true to the America I want to love than is the former American President who told you Mexicans are rapists, and the Chinese spread myths about global warming, and the Muslims are terrorists and traitors, and immigrants (who “aren’t people; they are animals”) come from “shithole countries,” and our soldiers, who give their lives, are “suckers.”
“Things come up that she knows she can contribute to, or help, or be of service in some way, and that’s where she goes. That’s why she’s on the planet, I guess,” said her friend Diana Keck, 78, a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado.
“She’s just an extraordinary woman, and I’m pleased to say one of my best friends.”
Zola said she was hoping that, by now, the hunger strike would have gained more traction. She and Sykes got honks and waves Monday morning while sitting at the table in front of the church, but no one stopped to ask questions.
Politicians have been conspicuously absent.
Worse than absent, politicians have been America’s primary deniers and liars. Politicians, more than any other group, have been responsible for the moral decline of America.
Social media response has been uneven, with one TikTok getting 32,000 views, but many getting a few hundred or a few thousand.
Still, she presses on cheerfully, trying to get someone to help her with her TikTok skills and looking forward to a Q&A with “The Long Shadow” director Frances Causey, scheduled for Wednesday.
After the hunger strike ends, she said, she’d like to get a van and go from town to town, speaking about reparations, getting the word out. The details still need to be worked out, but — as is so often the case with Zola — the vision is clear.
“This is phase one, and I’m not going away,” she said.
So perhaps, in my doddering years, I may — may — have hope for America, for I now, thanks to Nara Schoenberg, have found a real American, a diamond amidst the coal.
She is a voice of kindness and compassion amidst the cacophony of lies and hatred, greed and intolerance, that have become the new normal in America.
I pray Rachelle Zola forever will be remembered as the true American who lifted her lamp of humanity beside America’s golden door.
I pray she, not Trump, will make a permanent difference in America.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps: Ten Steps To Prosperity:
If you enjoy watching weird hypocrisy in action, you’ll love this.
Draft-dodger “patriot” hugs and kisses flag and calls American war dead, “suckers” and “losers.”States Move To Force Sports Teams To Play the National AnthemThree states have advanced constitutionally questionable laws.JASON RUSSELL | 6.16.2021 5:20 PMFor the first time, some states are moving to turn the decades-old cultural norm of playing the national anthem before a sporting event into a legal requirement.
Remember that these are the same Trumper conservatives who claim that the government intrudes too much on our freedoms. (Or does that apply only to guns?)
Right-wing “patriots” bearing flags while attempting a coup against the American government.On Wednesday, Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill (S.B.) 4, which will require professional sports teams to play the national anthem at the start of each preseason, regular season, and postseason game hosted in Texas.
Hey, what about amateur sports teams? Why are they not required to be “patriotic.”
Why doesn’t this apply to checkers and chess? Kids playing tag in the schoolyard?
And why only at the start of games? What about during and after games?
And why only sports? What about all TV and radio shows? Plays and concerts? Every workday?
Chief of staff John Kelly and Gen. Joe Dunford were there. Not “patriot” Trump. Too rainy.
We mandatory patriots need to know.
And by the way, does singing the National Anthem make one a patriot? Hmmm . . . If only Benedict Arnold had sung, “Oh, say can you see . . . “
The law requires all financial agreements between pro sports teams and state and local governments to include written verification that the team will play the anthem.
What instruments must be used? Will a harmonica do? Drumming on a garbage pail? Are undocumented immigrants excused from playing?
And how much of the National Anthem will be required by law. Just a couple of notes? Or all four verses?
Anyway, must it be sung, or just played without the words? Are we required to look at a photo of Donald Trump holding a Bible, while we sing?
This very religious man, who never attends church, and breaks with the Ten Commandments at every opportunity, is showing you the Bible
A similar bill was signed into law in Louisiana on Monday that would require the playing of the national anthem before all sporting events at venues that were subsidized by state or local governments.
Does receiving unemployment or working for the DMV count as “subsidized” by state or local governments? Public school teachers running a spelling bee contest?
Hey, how about requiring everyone to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before and after every game? Now that would be patriotic.
The right-wing Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation nearly identical to the Louisiana law, but it has since sat dormant in the Wisconsin Senate for more than a month.
So does the Wisconsin GOP seem to be kicking the can down the road? Does can-kicking count as a sporting event?
The Supreme Court has, time and time again, set precedents that the government can’t compel speech, even as a condition of doing business with the government.
Now that we have a super-majority conservative SCOTUS, will it ignore precedent as it is predicted to do with Rowe v. Wade?
Three QAnonesque Questions:
What is the secret reason why the freedom-loving politicians of Texas, Wisconsin, and Louisiana voted to require teams to play the National Anthem before games?
Why is Trump hugging the flag and showing you the Bible?
In one word, what do all these patriots have in common?
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
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The people who claim the USA isn’t racist are the worst racists?
When one member of a group fails, the bigots will hate the entire group for this failure? If a group succeeds, the bigots will despise it for its success.
Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.
It takes two things to put people in chains: The ignorance of the oppressed and the treachery of their leaders.
Hatred and fear are evil twins. It is impossible to hate someone without fearing them.
The brainless are too brainless to understand how little they know. The intelligent are smart enough to understand how little they know.
Dictators always claim that patriotism is obedience to them. Their disciples agree. Fake, hyperpatriots “love America,” but hate the Americans who disagree with them.
Loyalty, like obedience, usually is a one-way street. Divorce and dog leashes are proof.
A liar believes everyone is lying; a cheater believes everyone is cheating; a hater believes hatred is normal.
The more federal budgets are cut and federal taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes. No economy can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Many people expect the Federal Reserve to control inflation. But inflation is not a financial problem. Inflation is a scarcity problem that only Congress can fix.
It is easier to have sympathy than empathy. Actually, no one has empathy. “I feel your pain” is a lie.
We wish to distance ourselves from those below us on any social scale, while coming closer to those above. This is Gap Psychology.
Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor.
Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive always involves the Gap between the richer and the poorer.
The Gap is what makes the rich, rich. To widen the Gap, the rich can obtain more for themselves, or make sure the poor have less.
Everyone lies. Most of our lies are to ourselves.
No life form in the universe is less knowlegable than a voter.
Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
To survive long-term, a monetarily non-sovereign entity must have a positive balance of payments.
Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
Where reality differs from belief, those who question least choose belief.
The more we learn,
the more we begin to see,
if we were tasked with building a universe,
this is the only way it could be.
In politics, people tend to support those who most resemble them. Women tend to support women. Blacks tend to support blacks; Jews tend to support Jews; Evangelicals tend to support Evangelicals; New Yorkers tend to support New Yorkers, Latinos tend to support Latinos; and stupid, immoral, close-minded, bigoted liars tend to support stupid, close-minded, immoral, bigoted liars. Know yourself by whom you follow.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
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