tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post4076197456718705102..comments2024-03-17T05:58:44.116+08:00Comments on Economic Policy: Distribution of Income and WealthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-42114917176427176102013-09-17T22:35:18.104+08:002013-09-17T22:35:18.104+08:00Anything that causes divisiveness will break the i...Anything that causes divisiveness will break the interdependence factor needed for mutual success. <br /><br />When that divisiveness becomes entrenched, trust will fly, people will literally mind and mine their own business, talent will remobilize elsewhere and a recursive loop or vicious cycle will spiral the ecosystem to its inexorably cold turkey state.<br /><br />In such a state, no next new agenda will kickstart anything. Because the remnants will be too busy kicking themselves for missing the boat.<br /><br />note: this is just a quick breeze on the matter posted. therefore it is a social escort service. you get escorted through the minefield of blinkered policies.wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-72284269127001507462013-09-17T22:26:15.633+08:002013-09-17T22:26:15.633+08:00How did the blind spots come about?
They came abo...How did the blind spots come about?<br /><br />They came about from hitching onto the wrong targets. There are two. X can only do well if and when it can match Y in wealth. And X can only do well if and when X is only supported by X for X and of X.<br /><br />Actually the answer is neither X nor Y. Therefore it is Z.<br /><br />Z is a generic creature of the world. It thrives according to the circumstances and ecosystem in which it happens to find itself. <br /><br />It is resilient and persevering, focused and intelligent, pragmatic and optimized. It doesn't waste time, it uses the minimum to achieve the maximum and it is constantly looking for continuous improvement. And in most cases, it is miserly and frugal, some will add parsimonious.<br /><br />In doing so, it may gather some deficit in character and personality but then again still, everyone loves a winner. And thee days real winners are made by incremental accretions of minor advantages summed over all the ups and downs of life.<br /><br />Now, would such a trait be formable in the case of someone given free things? Anyone will say a br1m's five hundred looks and feels different from the other five hundred that has had to be earned in the field or kitchen or counter or street. One is to be spent vicariously, the other to be saved because it was so hard earned.<br /><br />Or, take the case of providing more openings and infrastructure. Say the opening is for education. Fine. Education is an equalizer. But it is only optimized if it can be used for what it was intended. And no ecosystem will welcome it heartily if its generation is at the expense of others - because any ecosystem, market if you will, abhors zero-sum games. <br /><br />One may say it is only a perception. Prove that it is not by passing over some for the others. After all, most of it had come from them.<br /><br />Next, take the case of infrastructure. Say, a row of rent-free mini-lots for just one community. How often have we to lament that they all sell the same nondescript things that no one will want to buy? <br /><br />After all, poor buying from the poor will make no one rich. <br /><br />Because the multi-level interdependence factor is missing. From how and by whom the planning was done to how and what of things to display to what and when to learn how to do it right...leading to doing everything right the first time.wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-41690056981543728362013-09-17T22:01:43.891+08:002013-09-17T22:01:43.891+08:00Whether it is the new agenda that has just been an...Whether it is the new agenda that has just been announced or its older forms from which it was resynthesised, that single factor has been omitted completely.<br /><br />The entire agenda omits the interdependence factor which is mirrored in how the wretched immigrant had finally made it on his own by the paradox of making himself inter-dependent on others around him in similar situation with singular objective.<br /><br />It is easy to see how things will pan out. If the new agenda is required, it means the old agendas have failed. But if the new agenda is a rehash of the old agendas, then one can ask how it can possibly succeed. <br /><br />If one looks at all the old agendas and policies, the same cluster of target matters may be discerned and written out on the back of a used envelope. Human capital, equity ownership, entrepreneurship, delivery system and non-financial assets. But where is the interdependence factor that is the key to generating income in order to grow wealth?<br /><br />Therefore the same premise of going it alone based on recognition of a single race will be the same factor that will torpedo any program emanating from such an agenda.<br /><br />For no man is or ever was an island.<br /><br />Adding more numbers and funds and emphasis on something isn't going to arc the failure curve over the hump to become the success curve.<br /><br />Because a curve can only be as smooth as the ecosystem in which it is drawn allows it to progress.<br /><br />And the ecosystem in such a plural complex is already distorted by biases and perceptions that will become more entrenched in the coming days.<br /><br />wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-73907650311656989592013-09-17T21:43:14.678+08:002013-09-17T21:43:14.678+08:00But by doing so for just one community in a nation...But by doing so for just one community in a nation of many communities, it fails itself immediately on many scores.<br /><br />First, it shows it is biased. A biased entity will never receive the trust that is mandatory to operate any system of improvement.<br /><br />Second, in calling it a national agenda but to only a particular community albeit in the majority, it shows it is prejudiced against the minorities. <br /><br />Third, in ignoring the poor in the other communities, it shows it is not caring and concerned for them even as it wants to show it is caring and concerned for those whom it presumes to represent. <br /><br />Consequently for the fourth, it cheapens the meaning of what being a citizen of the country is all about, and that is the ultimate sin which a government can commit.<br /><br />The minorities who work hard and honest will wonder why they should continue to support future programs when the money they pay as taxes is not even allocated for their poor.<br /><br />The majority who receive the largess will have to force themselves to pretend that they have a right to it even when they know they don't; in the very process of self-pretense, they blight those amongst themselves who have shunned unearned aid, thereby taking the entire locus of values of their society further away from the very factors of hard honest and intelligent work required for success systems. <br /><br />In short, they kill the very attitude towards life that is the linchpin of all improvements for success.<br /><br />Initially, they may feel a sense of personal satisfaction and thankfulness. But soon enough, time will reveal that there is one single underlying factor which is absolutely necessary for any form of success.<br /><br />That factor is interdependence.<br /><br /><br /><br />wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-91465629381236027842013-09-17T21:18:25.461+08:002013-09-17T21:18:25.461+08:00Going by the given distinction between income and ...Going by the given distinction between income and wealth, the factor that maintains wealth is the factor that generates income.<br /><br />Income is generated by value-added services. Such services engender a certain attitude towards life. Basically a pragmatic approach, itself requiring personal sacrifice or the forfeiture of present comfort for some envisioned future gain. <br /><br />Most of the immigrants who succeed anywhere in the world start on that premise. And as their personal sacrifice and effort increase over time, they gamble that the next extra-effort will take them into a higher and easier league. Their lives become a daily tango between risk and reward.<br /><br />Those who fail are not likely to advertise their failure for doing so may reduce their credit worthiness for their next round of recovery. <br /><br />Even when drowning they gasp for the oxygen to revive themselves. They are motivated to live.<br /><br />But their motivation to live is not just to prove they can make it. It is also to prove that when they save their face in business and life, it is with the reason to save the face and honor of their family roots. <br /><br />A family root may start with lineage or geneology but soon enough in the increasing inter-dependence generated in doing business or growing an enterprise, it becomes local networking. As success grows, that local networking expands to become connections between networks. As those connections become more meshed due to global competition, they form a matrix that is not just made of a rolodex of first-name contacts but also the net of ideas and solutions.<br /><br />So what starts as just the shirt on the back and the sole coin in the pocket can by evolutionary dictates of life become an intangible but real enough operational survival for that matter success system.<br /><br />Therefore it may be considered an awesome tragedy when a government in straight jackets about the national situation can only go through the motion of rehashing old plans in new names and then use the same policies in new garbs to try to rebrand itself as caring and concerned.wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.com