From: cryofan (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 21:02:35 MST
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:08:02 -0500, you wrote:
>Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States
>http://tinyurl.com/2gjv
>Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States
>>
When you leave the classroom or office and go into the world, you see
at first its richness
>>
Uh oh...."richness"? Trendsucking alert! Trendsucking alert!
>>
The invisible hand of the market has become an informal but
uncompromising lawgiver. Globalization demands conformity to the
practices of the global leaders, especially to those of the United
States.
>> Someone's been reading *The Economist* and *The Wall Street Journal*.
I think I am going to be sick....
>>
The Seven Factors
These key "failure factors" are:
Restrictions on the free flow of information.
The subjugation of women.
Inability to accept responsibility for individual or collective
failure.
The extended family or clan as the basic unit of social organization.
Domination by a restrictive religion.
A low valuation of education.
Low prestige assigned to work.
Zero-Sum Knowledge
>>
Well, he got that right, at least.
Hey, I know a GREAT WAY to make the USA a *keen place*! Let's import,
as fast as we can as many people from the kind of countries
characterized by the above list...
>>
While Europe sleepwalks toward a 35-hour work-week, we are moving
toward the 35-hour day. The intense performance of our economy would
be unattainable without the torrent of energy introduced by
>>
Bet the slaves on the Jamaican plantations worked REAL hard after the
foreman whipped one of them. Now THERE's your torrent of
energy....ahh...just more of that lovely kind of MBA trendsucking that
dominates the WSJ et al....
>>>
The point isn't really the fear that women will steal jobs in Country
X.
>>
To some extent, they did....
>>
For those squeamish about judging the religion of another,
>>
Nah, you are the politically correct drone...
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