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To: cosmicforce who wrote (212919)	12/29/2012 11:47:19 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 541529

<< increases productivity by $60 to $300< <<That is a difficult initial value differential equation if we believe in macroeconomics. These equations become divergent or convergent depending upon different ratios of positive and negative feedback and the multipliers given to these elements. I think these make it impossible to guess the output.>> Not really difficult at all. All you have to do is imagine all the poor uneducated people in the country being educated. The millions of gang bangers and single moms in the ghettos with Associate or BA degrees. As I keep harping on when people get educated they change. Most of poverty is just not knowing what to do and developing things like study habits. Those are teachable things. <<Based upon my experiences with human nature, if something is given for free that other people have to work for, the net productivity falls. It is a death spiral because those that really don't want to work in their marginal job (all they are qualified to do) see marginal advantages to becoming "needy" especially if "needy" doesn't mean being all that poor.>> That does not apply to education. And as my dear old mom used to say: "those people living on welfare are not living very well:. Get the people educated and the entire social dynamic of the country changes. <<I think everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) who receives a government dollar has to do something - from scraping bird crap from benches to holding the hand of the dying, dependent upon age, skill and demeanor. Many welfare states will circle down the drain of reduced productivity if there is no incentive to work.>> This is a really hard concept to get across, but "laziness" is sort of a mindset. People who are developed intellectually find working much easier. Go back to studying for school. If you are raised in a household where everyone understands learning, you grow up with it being second nature e.g. I never had to tell either of my kids even once to do their homework. Not once. Now think of all the parents who spend their life asking: "Johnny have you finished your homework." Kids in the ghetto don't know how to study, or even understand the concept and that goes for work as well to a large degree. Once they learn to study or work, they never go back to being "lazy". When I first started college it would take me a week to write 500 word paper, something I can do today in minutes, and studying was soooo hard. By the time I reached graduate school it was a piece of cake and I never pulled even one all nighter. And got almost straight A's. My first two years in a community college I got C's. My second two years in a state college B's. Then A's. How it works.

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