joi, 15 august 2013

Rich countries Achille's heel

The Stanford marshmallow experiment states that if we delay our immediate rewards in order to obtain later bigger rewards, we would have bigger success in life.
A man or a woman from a poor country is forced to delay the immediate rewards in order to obtain gain later. 
In childhood he or she didn't get what all he/she want, and it is used with frustrations and delayed gratification.
On the other hand people from rich countries get always what they want, and they are not used with frustrations, and delayed gratifications, and it is hard for them to follow careers which require long term effort.
The ease of emigration drains the motivated individuals from poor countries into rich countries, taking jobs of the least competitive locals and keeping the advantage of the rich countries, at the expense of the least qualified locals.
These least qualified locals if they will not acquire new skills they will be marginalized, and they will increase the ranks of extremist parties.

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