Europe concerned in recent centuries by the welfare of its citizens above all, has lost value and prevalence over the past centuries. On the other hand, America has released several meters in just 500 years. And not only that, but the future is rosy. Today and in a few years China and even India are furious world powers. So come and others have relied to a greater or lesser extent growth in pure pragmatism supported by cultures quite different from ours.
What is the famous American dream but a well-formulated slogan paraphrased in a thousand and one times with a sense very simple. You work hard and earn the daily bread, which the system will return a house, a car and a blond and smiling children. You, you're a bum, die. No waiting in the unemployment line or buy at the supermarket brands. No. You, not a worker is sick or valid enough, die without public health, no school for his starving offspring and without a progressive taxes that make the rich pay taxes a clean and safe public transport. Buy a car dammit! That's the American dream. Implement the harsh laws of free market to the most gruesome consequences, such as the endless lines of people like you and me who in the XXI century waiting for the doors of sporting facilities to perform a free check-up that could not afford in a hospital that was not "campaign". Stalin proclaimed unconditional job for the Party and socialism took exacerbated the USSR to ostracism, on the other side of the Cold War work is acclaimed for the country masquerading as a dream that the free market and privatization eventually make feasible. And to this day.
And China? Where working hours never end but begin again and again, where leisure and holidays do not appear in the dictionary. Where, regardless of effort or worth, you're locked in where you are born and if you leave him no rights or even legal sense. Directly not exist. Such a workforce available to foreign investors controlled by them (capitalism, yes, but wherever and whenever I want) have made them grow and grow. Japan, "bourgeois", is between a rock and a hard place, between deflation and recession for long.
full crisis in ideology and economic theory, when everyone wondered what the way forward between the social conservative or liberal, where do we go if the mixed economy is extinguished? When not seem to run expansionary monetary policy or that of austerity in spending. Gives the impression that productivity is the deeper problem, the unfinished business of Spain and in general the old continent. And in 2010 a man of 65 is more than qualified to be an active part of the system. If ten years, medical advances increase life expectancy in two, why the heck the retirement age remains the same? It goes against human physiology does not make sense.
Perhaps what is needed is a long and arduous depression to begin to think that we can not live like hobbits, the Welfare State can not be in every country and every culture, the good life is not infinite. It's annoying to hear and much harder to say. Not win elections or adherents to this speech because productivity, if indeed we can to achieve it, has a high price .
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