Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (47574)	3/17/2009 9:26:54 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219603

For starters: Ideas allows to win. Succeeds. Success of ideas create emulators of those. People embrace ideas, numbers creates critical mass, people emulates....People wants to be associated with the winning ideas... 2.000 years later it becomes what we call civilization.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (47574)	3/17/2009 10:07:23 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219603

Now if you have common knowledge.(That resulted from the ideas that are now established). People are taught them in the school and all act based on that basic set of knowledge. That is what Galbraith named 'conventional wisdom'. As a result of human progress (technological and societal) that knowledge start losong relevance. Elmat sees this and start seeking any new set of knowledge, ideas that will become established, and will certainly replace the old ideas that were so successful but no longer are in accordance to the time.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (47574)	3/17/2009 10:37:02 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219603

Countries where the state is not yet priced in will suffer! Countries where the state is already priced in will do well. The state is a costly piece of machinery. It should finance its costs via taxes levied on people and businesses. But the state is not visible and if it was the common Ze Mane (or Joe SixPack in OECD parlance) cold not grasp what it is. For the last 6 deacdes the state could be financed and its costs were not a burden to its citizens. Burden understood as: "I can't eat because I need to support the state machinery" "Even though I pay Gargantuan taxes the streets has potholes, the bandidos walk free and the school is not preparing the kids" In countries like Brazil is like this. We have already faced the full burden of the state, have it priced in and have a modus eoconomicus to deal with it. The Brazilian mistrust big organizations and we mistrust people in power and the state too! Poepe in the OECD will need a couple of decades to learn what we already know. Competitiveness of nations is being revalued based on that statement above.