Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: US Consumer Confidence index surges

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joel Blau wrote:
> > Look, I don't wish mass impoverishment on anybody, but the plain fact of
> > the matter is that as long as the "boom" continues, the ethic of looking
> > out for number 1 will persist, and we are just pissing into the wind.

quoth Doug:
> Sally Lee, editor, Parents Magazine: "In the last two or three years,
> there's a sense of let's start raising kids who are not so
> individualistic. In a bad economy, everyone wants to raise this Horatio
> Alger. Now we want to raise kids who are good citizens who will help
> people." - quoted in Belluck, Pam (2000). "New Advice for Parents: Saying
> 'That's Great!' May Not Be," New York Times, October 18, p. A18.

also, prosperity like that of the late 1960s actually promoted rebellion.
Unequally-distributed prosperity like that of the 1990s might encourage
mass rebellion against defining what we want from our economy in terms of
aggregate averages like _per capita_ GDP.


Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine