I'm not interested in slogging through business course studies to win an internet argument. I come here for casual yet enlightening conversations, and to kill boredom.
Look bruh, this is the back-pedal of back-pedals. You can't come in here making such a strong-statement about the veracity of a study that is so widely-cited across the world, and then put forth ZERO justification behind it other than "i got no time to do this but just
trust me. Extremely uncompelling. If you don't have the time for it, fine. I'm just telling you how it makes your point come across.
My wife's company specializes in compensation. There's a reason all the Fortune 500 companies hire them, and why they just sold for hundreds of millions of US dollars. They compensate very well, keep employees motivated, but are careful to not overcompensate. You don't need studies to understand the downsides to overcompensation on both quality of life and productivity ramifications. Everyone was taught what happens when you spoil a child. It's no different for adults.
Extremely monolithic. The very definition of proper compensation is not 0.001% as discrete as you're attesting it to be. Any idiot understands that heavily overcompensating an employee breeds laziness, and poorer quality-- however there are developed nations all across this world that have companies that compensate their employees
much more than your typical American company and/or government, make
higher quality goods, maintain higher productivity, and keep employees motivated . Your points are merely dogmatic and idealistic-- theres tons of proof literally everywhere that American employees have no-where close the proper amount of compensation, relative to, say, their European counterparts.
Calling people narrow minded and cherry picking while insinuating correlation is causation is a sign of being narrow minded and brainwashed, FYI.
I would love to see a correlation by yourself that tethers the propensity of "the US pulling their asses up out of perpetual economic anemia" with the happiness rating of a given country. Sure, correlation does not imply causation-- but if it were as monolithic as you appraise it to be, the correlation would have an r-squared value of 1. Right now, you've provided zero justification behind this statement, so the r-squared could be zero for all I know. When has the US pulled Denmark out of perpetual economic anemia? Germany? Iceland? Pretty sure the US DROPPED Germany into perpetual economic anemia moreso than the flip-side. America has pulled Japan out of economic anemia?
It's a pretty simple concept, Dal. The US economic engine drags the world out of poverty.
It's a capitalist-industrialist engine, pioneered by the UK and the US, that drags the countries of the world out of poverty (albeit in a disparate fashion). Not just the US. Every country that adopts it, along with adopting proper intergovernmental trade/economic relations, will reap the GDP awards that come with it-- with the actual impact of these increased economic rewards differing from government to government. Cuba has fared much better than hundreds of other nations despite dealing with being
arrested by this "US economic engine".
It's not debatable that global growth by and large has relied on US consumption & development for the last 60-70 years.
I would love to see this 'non-debatable proof'. An extremely strong statement with zero justification (par for the course). I'll agree with you if you make the effort.
Then comes along the academic community using equality, happiness, etc., all pretty much un-American concepts, against Americans like it's some fault of our dirty system while refusing to acknowledge that standards of living would be **** without the American engine.
Even your 'American concepts' aren't ****ing American, Grandpa. Was Adam Smith American? America's very ****ing foundation was surveying the best of what was being written by non-American individuals, or working for other nations, and combining/compiling it cohesively into a system that would best benefit their citizens. They did it then, so y'all need to continue to do it now. Americans have too much pride to change any component of a system and copy what another nation is doing, which is beyond ****ing hilarious (and will lead to their fall if it continues).
All those happy-go-lucky countries (who may or may not be truly happy since it's an abstract concept that cannot really be measured) would be mired in muck without a more competitive nation to gracefully keep them afloat.
No, measuring happiness is not a perfect science. But to treat it as black and white as you do really is agenda-serving at best. "Correlation isn't causation"-- but nearly every measure of happiness known shows the US ranking consistently near the bottom of all developed nations. An embarrassment for the nation that has the most capability to reverse this.
I suppose I am narrow minded for taking a broader approach instead of pitfalling into academic black holes that don't care to see the forest for the trees. Happiness can be achieved by equalizing incomes. Consequences be damned.
You're narrow-minded for refusing the existence of a problem, and building false-justifications for the support of perpetuating the existence of said problem.
