Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Poverty has culture.  It has far more than one culture.   No one will claim that
European, African, South American or Oriental peasants had or have much in the way of wealth.  They all have culture.  All of them know how to get along with very little and they taught and teach their children. Changed environments demand different skills.  People learn to get along with what there is.  We can try to teach them to dream.  Mostly they dream of a hot meal and a place to sleep with a door that closes between them and those who would put them out in the rain and snow.  The children learn it with language.  There is little will to learn more among the children.
Call it a culture of poverty if you wish.

Business managers are those who have learned that the way to have money is to sell things to other people.  They are constantly drilled in fiduciary responsibility.  These are business managers not necessarily business owners.  Managers collect pay checks for getting goods at least cost and selling them for the greatest yield.  Yield is price times sales less costs.
There is no mention of human values there.  At this time least cost for goods is overseas.  Best price is domestic.  Normal operations are shipping money overseas.  The workers who should be making money and paying for goods are getting poor.  The production workers are not getting paid. They know how to deal with it but do not like to do that.  Living in a hovel and scratching a living leads to a nasty, brutish and short life.
 


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