Thursday, May 10, 2007
NEUROECONOMICS
Economics and Darwin again
There is a huge need for Neuroeconomics, and this might be a small contribution to perceiving economics as that what it really is: only another form of competition
Group thinking is the basis of human thinking, but the problem is we are not a homogenous group. Every nation consists minimally of 5 layers of its own population; elite, upper class, middle class, proletarians, and homeless. Every one of these groups perceives the same event as completely different one. Whilst proletarians might react fearfully or aggressively to immigrants; members of middle or upper class might welcome the immigrants, as certain cervices might be offered by these people cheaper.
Now the question is what has deeper impact, the coherence to own higher group or wish to get some service cheaper. The proletarians have the problem of time: they would wish to perform better and get better paid, but the ability to learn is generally lower in this group and so it will take time, maybe even generations, but the immigrants are coming right now and so giving no time to our proletarians to improve, they only feel that they lose part of their work to immigrants and thus losing also part of their income, which makes them feel anger against these immigrants.
This problem is not only a problem of the USA but of all developed countries, like Germany, where e.g. the highest negative reactions to immigrants are displayed by German proletarians formerly living in the Eastern part of Germany governed by communists.
One may never forget that we humans are guided not by a single event but by many that are in context, and that we are not only a member of one group but of many groups at the same time. Therefore, it is sometimes so difficult to see the real reason for some observed reaction.
Actually, the fear of immigrants displayed by proletarians can be compared to the reaction of British workers several hundred years ago when they were afraid of simple machines and destroyed them in order to maintain their own working place.
The real problem is emotionally perceived discrepancy between own ability to learn and felt lack of time to adjust, adapt to new situation. It is an evolutionary problem.
There is a huge need for Neuroeconomics, and this might be a small contribution to perceiving economics as that what it really is: only another form of competition
Group thinking is the basis of human thinking, but the problem is we are not a homogenous group. Every nation consists minimally of 5 layers of its own population; elite, upper class, middle class, proletarians, and homeless. Every one of these groups perceives the same event as completely different one. Whilst proletarians might react fearfully or aggressively to immigrants; members of middle or upper class might welcome the immigrants, as certain cervices might be offered by these people cheaper.
Now the question is what has deeper impact, the coherence to own higher group or wish to get some service cheaper. The proletarians have the problem of time: they would wish to perform better and get better paid, but the ability to learn is generally lower in this group and so it will take time, maybe even generations, but the immigrants are coming right now and so giving no time to our proletarians to improve, they only feel that they lose part of their work to immigrants and thus losing also part of their income, which makes them feel anger against these immigrants.
This problem is not only a problem of the USA but of all developed countries, like Germany, where e.g. the highest negative reactions to immigrants are displayed by German proletarians formerly living in the Eastern part of Germany governed by communists.
One may never forget that we humans are guided not by a single event but by many that are in context, and that we are not only a member of one group but of many groups at the same time. Therefore, it is sometimes so difficult to see the real reason for some observed reaction.
Actually, the fear of immigrants displayed by proletarians can be compared to the reaction of British workers several hundred years ago when they were afraid of simple machines and destroyed them in order to maintain their own working place.
The real problem is emotionally perceived discrepancy between own ability to learn and felt lack of time to adjust, adapt to new situation. It is an evolutionary problem.
# posted by Dalibor @ 1:30 AM 
