THE PRIVATIZED SOCIALISM OF THE FAILED BILLIONAIRE EXPERIMENT
A drive through most countries in the world is a drive through undeveloped, raw baron landscapes, and unpopulated properties, whose property and territory lines sprawl for miles to days, and where someone owns all of this land, all of these mountains, lakes, and river, or access to the same.
Many of us grew up being socially conditioned to believe and even defend that capitalism is "good" and that socialism and communism are "evil", with frequent reference to socialists like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao who slaughtered millions of people, and where almost the only others who have killed as many other people were European royals.[5]
What only some of us were taught is that socialism, communism, and capitalism were largely constructs of or originated from illegitimate, forged, and/or fake European monarchs employing active measures to create false enemies of the people they oppressed in order to pit those they oppressed against one another.[5]
We were taught that capitalism allows individuals to hoard assets, decentralize power, the means of production, and/or the resources required to survive, while socialism "shares" assets, concentrates power, the means of production, and/or the resources required to survive.
For over a hundred years taxpayers have been scared into hyper-financing "heroes" to identify, hunt down, and stop evil socialists, in order to fulfill the promise to the billionaires that they would be able to hoard assets to decentralize power -- and yet this experiment has failed -- because now much like the administration of a socialist government, these billionaires haven't decentralized power but are networking to centralize power to overthrow our capitalist systems, largely created by democracy, which they have become the enemy of, and gave rigged to their advantage, and they have had laws changed to posture their billionaire companies are "people who have rights", and in fact they have legalized the right to bribe every level of our political structure behind closed doors using dark money, despite our Constitution, the highest law in the land, specifically prohibiting the same in such a manner as to prevent those engaged in the same from being eligible for office to receive the same in a self-executing manner -- all to increase the rights of billionaires, while decreasing the rights of everyone else.[5]
Their billionaire companies regularly engage in networked human rights violations, shared slave labor, organized criminal activity, civil rights violations, and their profiting operations are increasing the destruction of the environment, now threatening humanity and life on Earth to such a great extent that the same has resulted in the 6th largest mass extinction event on Earth.[5]
Though we were socially conditioned to believe that socialism was evil, and that capitalism would save us from centralized power, what actually happened is that the capitalists networked that power to seize more power, in a manner that privatized socialism for the failed billionaire experiment, and where they have been "sharing" assets, the means of production, and/or the resources required for them to survive, at the cost of everyone else, who now are struggling to pay for housing, food, medicine, debt, savings, education, towards economic slavery and oppression under their privatized socialism.[5]
Look no farther than Jeffrey Epstein's and child trafficker Vladimir Putin's crime syndicate's failed billionaire experiment for example after example of their privatized socialism, "sharing" the means of production, assets, and/or the resources required for them to survive, by "engineering" and financing their crime syndicate into power in stolen election attempt and stolen election attempt, and superfunding each other's businesses, including by using corrupted public offices, who funnel billions to trillions of taxpayer funds into their businesses, while evading paying taxes themselves, and when caught in their organized crimes, share the resources required to corrupt more public offices, and to blast us daily with propaganda on the communications infrastructures they almost exclusively own, regarding how unfair it is for the majority of Americans and others not to support all of the same, and how fair it is for them to have to be held to the same standards and laws they haven't been able to corrupt yet, almost never facing criminal prosecution for their ongoing organized crimes, almost always able to use their shared vast resources to bribe or pay their way out of having all of their assets seized, and to evade the death penalty for treason, sedition, insurrection, and/or their murder-for-profit serial murder schemes, for example their failed response to COVID in order to sell more products to taxpayers, who funded no less that $16 trillion for that grift.[5]
The following chart shows how capitalism and socialism are really the enemy of democracy, or the enemy of the people, where the majority of people lose their rights to the failed billionaire experiments of non-democratic socialists like Hitler and his treasonous English royals, who are in essence privatized capitalists -- and vice versa -- where the failed billionaire experiments of non-democratic capitalists, who are in essence privatized socialists, like the organized crime syndicate of Jeffrey Epstein and child trafficker Vladimir Putin, who include the likes of the UK/EU royals, Donald Trump and his family, Rupert Murdoch of Fox News, the Saudi royals, David Koch, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, both founders of Google, Elon Musk of Tesla, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Leon Black of Yahoo, Michael Bloomberg of Bloomberg, Conrad Black, Tim Cook of Apple, and/or others, but certainly not limited to the same, at least some of whom, if not all of whom, have been sharing their resources to help some of these others and/or others seize more power, and now they and/or their companies have become among the richest people and organizations in the world, and the largest marketing agencies, the largest new agencies, the largest social media companies, the largest communications companies, the largest search engines, the largest artificial intelligence companies, the largest satellite companies, and/or the largest influencers and domestic and global spying companies in the world, but not limited to the same, also positioning themselves to become the largest energy and food producers in the world, in a networked manner that absolutely behaves like non-democratic socialist administrations would, as the top capitalists.[3][5]
What the curve above proves is that there is no difference between non-democratic socialists and non-democratic capitalists, as they are one in the same, just branded differently.
In both cases, a small group of elites decide who gets to have access to assets, who gets to hoard the assets, who gets to distribute the assets, what the assets are used for, what the people are told about how the assets they control are being used, and in both cases, it is to serve the small group of people who get to determine the same, in such a manner that can readily be argued there really is no difference between them.[5]
Though this seems like a dire situation, because heads the majority of people end up as slaves to a small group of people, and tails the majority of people end up as slaves to a small group of people, the coin can also land on its side, neither heads nor tails, but requires a delicate balance to be able to prevent the small group of people from enslaving everyone else.
The side of the coin is known as democracy, where every person has an independent or equal vote to decide on their own governance, in such a manner that the sum of their votes represents the style of governance the most people would benefit from.
How non-democratic socialists and non-democratic capitalists destroy a democracy is by corrupting the administrators of democracy, and the democratic vote, and by engaging in massive influence and education propaganda to change the values of people away from their core values, in a similar manner as Jeffrey Epstein's Donald Trump managed to do with some to all of those billionaires mentioned above, perverting the values of Jesus Christ in mostly a Christian country, and using such heavy and voluminous propaganda as to literally get good Christians who were living largely in peace with one another, to turn on one another, and to abandon the values of Jesus, and to instead embrace the total opposite teachings of Jesus, brainwashing otherwise good people to defend and embrace murder, hate, revenge, hoarding, exploitation, and/or segregation, in what doesn't resemble the teachings of Christ and/or Christianity in the least.[5]
The Republican Party has since illegitimately stolen more than one election and installed an organized crime syndicate in SCOTUS, who refuses to be held accountable by the laws that make them accountable, a SCOTUS who regularly engages in organized crimes with billionaires, who have legalized bribery and thus the corruption of the government in favor of the billionaires, and a SCOTUS who hold themselves like monarch dictators above the law in a manner that the Constitution no longer allows them to serve in public office in a self-executing manner, per the conservative legal scholars from the Federalist Society of Jeffrey Epstein's David Koch that helped install 6/9 SCOTUS.[5]
And so it isn't the "radical left" destroying the country right now, but the "radical right", who are creating a two-tiered society, one for their privatized socialist capitalists, and one for the majority, who they are not only enslaving but pitting against one another, to distract from the ongoing privatized socialism of the failed billionaire experiment.[5]
Capitalism works as long as billionaire hoarders don't network with one another to seize more power and assets, and works if the billionaire hoarders defend democracy instead of conspire to overthrow the same.
Capitalism is no different than socialism when a small group of elites network and decide to slow boil everyone into scarcity and slavery in order to control all of the means of production, rights, freedom of movement or expression, for everyone, or anyone who elucidates and disagrees with the same.
Capitalism is no different than socialism when a small group of people conspire to murder millions of other people to remain in control and/or to make a profit, and where the Republican Party has been advocating to "punch a cop" and "destroy" U.S. law enforcement, and where Bush torture lawyer, Ron DeSantis, has specified that if he is elected, after being financed by child trafficker Putin's Russian porn bank Paxum and/or Jeffrey Epstein's organized crime syndicate -- that on day one as President -- DeSantis would begin "slitting throats" of his perceive enemies, mirroring socialists Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.[5]
And once these fallen service members have been killed by having their throats slit, that would make them "suckers and losers" per Trump, who said the same of other fallen service members whose graves he refused to visit, to not mess up his hair.[5]
Accordingly, how are non-democratic socialists and non-democratic capitalists different?
It seems they are one in the same, and that each celebrates the fascism and slavery of others, so that an insignificantly small group of people can "Lord" over others, in a manner that is no different than savages in a jungle, and certainly the opposite of the teachings and values of Jesus Christ, while posturing themselves to be Jesus returned, and/or defenders of the faith (of whose faith, Satan's?).[5]
Accordingly, both socialism and capitalism breed fascism and slavery in the absence of a functioning democracy, and where in the US that democracy is now gone, because foreign and domestic billionaires own and operate the voting systems, the internet connected to the voting machines, the organizations using the internet to hack the voting systems to "engineer" their organized crime syndicate into power, and because of the dark money or behind closed doors legalization of bribery facilitated by the Republican Party, Citizen's United, and their corrupted SCOTUS, so that each the billionaires and their billionaire companies get more than an equal vote relative to you or I, who only get one vote every two years, whereas the billionaires get to bribe different levels of the government to enslave us and allow them to profit more, almost daily, affording them hundreds to thousands of votes by bribery and corruption influence every year, often directly bribing the administrators of the government, and/or their political campaigns, and/or their political action committees, and/or family members of those they are corrupting, and/or via offshore accounts others find out about only when brave insiders are brave enough to leak the same in defense of democracy.[5]
The following is the Wikipedia entry for social conditioning.
"Social conditioning is the sociological process of training individuals in a society to respond in a manner generally approved by the society in general and peer groups within society. The concept is stronger than that of socialization, which is the process of inheriting norms, customs and ideologies. Manifestations of social conditioning are vast, but they are generally categorized as social patterns and social structures including nationalism, education, employment, entertainment, popular culture, religion, spirituality and family life. The social structure in which an individual finds him or herself influences and can determine their social actions and responses.
Social conditioning represents the environment and personal experience in the nature and nurture debate. Society in general and peer groups within society set the norms which shape the behavior of actors within the social system. Though society shapes individuals; however, it was the individual who made society to begin with and society in turn shaped and influenced us. Emile Durkheim who really played an important role in the theory of social facts, explained and talked how what was once a mere idea which in this case Durkheim is talking about society has turned out to be a thing which basically controls and dictates us.[1]
Socialization
Social conditioning is directly related to the particular culture that one is involved in. In You May Ask Yourself, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at New York University, states that "culture affects us. It's transmitted to us through different processes, with socialization—our internalization of society's values, beliefs and norms—being the main one."[2] The particular manner or influence that one is exposed to is associated by the herd that he or she is involved in. Social conditioning bases its principals on the natural need for an animal to be a part of a pack.
Herd Instinct
Sigmund Freud, known as the father of psychoanalysis, recorded his observations of group dynamics in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In his work, he refers to Wilfred Trotter as the group conditions its members, Freud states "opposition to the herd is as good as separation from it, and is therefore anxiously avoided".[3] Such fear causes the individual members and even leaders of a particular group to go along with the decisions a group based in accordance to its culture. On a micro scale, the individual is conditioned to partake in the social norms of the said group even if they contradict his or her personal moral code. The consequences of such protest (may) result in isolation. Such, in accordance to Freud, is one of the greatest punishments than can be instilled on an individual. This would result in the inability of an individual to practice his or her "instinctual impulses". These instincts, in accordance to Freud, are the motives behind actions that the individual may take. The father of psychoanalysis further states that, "we thus have an impression of a state in which an individual's private emotional impulses and intellectual acts are too weak to come to anything by themselves and are entirely dependent for this on being reinforced by being repeated in a similar way in the other members of the group".[3] Out of fear of isolation and to secure the practice of instinctual impulses, there may be little protest from individual members as the group continues to conditions.
Propaganda
Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew and the father of propaganda and public relations, used many of his uncle's theories in order to create new methods in marketing. In Propaganda, he published that "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it".[4] He used the herd theory in order to create public relations, thus conditioning the public to need particular goods from certain manufacturers. In the same publication he stated, "A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable."[4] His theories and applications in social conditioning continue throughout his work.
Bernays and the elite
Bernays continued the application of his work as he associates the method in which a minority elite use social conditioning to assert their dominance and will power. In You May Ask Yourself, Dalton Conley describes this ideal with hegemony. He states that the term "refers to a historical process in which a dominant group exercises 'moral and intellectual leadership' throughout society by winning the voluntary 'consent' of popular masses."[2] Bernays believed that this was a functionalist approach. Stating "vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses."[4] Such influence is made possible by persistent repetition. Wilbert E. Moore, a formal Princeton University Sociology professor, in Social Change, states that "the persistence of patterns gives order and constancy to recurrent events. In terms of behavior, many elements of persistence are more nearly cyclical, the near repetition of sequences of action over various time periods."[5] He continues to state that "role structures (and this norms) grow out of the need for predictability".[5] While he does state that there are several reasons for group formation (spontaneous, deliberate and coercive) the group usually winds up 'repeating sequences' and then, in accordance to Freud and Bernays, contribute to the socialization of possibly new members.
Classical conditioning – Ivan Pavlov and behaviorism
Such repetition contributes to basic social conditioning. Ivan Pavlov demonstrated this theory with his infamous conditioned stimuli experiment. In Pavlov's dog experiment, the research proved that repeated exposure to a particular stimuli results in a specific behavior being repeated. In accordance to Mark Bouton of the University of Vermont, the strength of such 'repetition' and influence can be seen in operant conditioning.[6] Where, depending on reinforcement and punishment of a particular behavior, a response is conditioned.
Methods of social conditioning – media
In accordance to Ashley Lutz, an editor of Business Insider, 90% of the media, in 2011, was owned by merely six companies.[7] Such limits the exposure to information, at least the perspective on information. The limited exposure to the perspectives of information results in increase of particular social conditioning. Through repetition of a particular perspective of an ideal, the view is reinforced into the audience and results in a formed social norm. This contributes to the formation of a reflection of the culture in media. Conley states that "culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere, a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structure of our society is shown".[2] Such cycling repetition creates a method of socialization and a manner in which society further molds its current members or new ones into the culture.
Labeling theory
Social control and stigmatization (SCS)
Conley states that "individuals subconsciously notice how others see or label them, and their reactions to these labels over time form the basis of their self-identity. It is only through the social process of labeling that we create deviance by assigning shared meanings to acts."[2] Social conditioning is formed by the creation of 'good' and 'bad' behaviors - persistent reinforcement and the use of operant conditioning influences individuals/groups to develop particular behaviors and/or ideals. In "A Differential Association—Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior", from Criminological Theory Readings and Retrospectives, social norms and deviance in a particular group is described as follows: "We often infer what the norms of a group are by observing reaction to behavior, i.e., the sanctions applied to, or reinforcement and punishment of, such behavior. We may also learn what a group's norms are through verbal and written statements. The individual group member also learns what is and is not acceptable behavior on the basis of verbal statements made by others, as well as through sanctions (i.e. the reinforcing or aversive stimuli) applied by others in response to his behavior and that of other norms violators."[8]
A particular group conditions its members into certain behaviors. In Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas, the authors note that even illegal behaviors may be seen as positive and promoted within a particular group because different social organizations have a varying amount of influence over particular members – in particular, as children age, their friends play a greater amount of influence than the family.[9] Burgess and Akers further reinforce this point: "In terms of our analysis, the primary group would be seen to be the major source of an individual's social reinforcements. The bulk of behavioral training which the child receives occurs at a time when the trainers, usually the parents, possess a very powerful system of reinforcement. In fact, we might characterize a primary group as a generalized reinforce (one associated with many reinforces, conditioned as well as unconditioned). And, as we suggest above, as the child grows older, groups other than the family may come to control a majority of an individual's reinforces, e.g. the adolescent peer group. Such theories are further backed up by Mead's theory of Social Development and are reinforced by stigmatization."[8]
Mead's theory of social development
In accordance to Margaret Mead, one's identity is shaped by outside forces. While the self exists on its own at birth, the first interactions influence the development of one's identity. With the introductions of more and more groups, starting with the significant other (ex. family) and reference groups (ex. friends) an individual develops his or her perception of self. As Conley states, individuals "...develop a sense of other, that is, someone or something outside of oneself".[2] Finally, individuals interact with the generalized other, "which represents an internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings—regardless of whether we're encountered those people or places before".[2]
Stigma
"A stigma is a negative social label that not only changes others' behaviour towards a person but, also alters that person's self-concept and social identity."[2] Once placed into such a category, an individual finds it nearly impossible to move out of that particular grouping. Such becomes his or her master status, overshadowing any other statuses. Such conditions the individual to continuously partake in the activities ascribed to the master status, good or bad.
See also
References
- ^ Durkheim, Emile (1982). The Rules of Sociological Method. New York: The Free Press. pp. 52–59.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g Conley, Dalton (2013). You May Ask Yourself. New York, NY: Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-93517-2.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Freud, Sigmund (1989). Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. New York, NY: Norton and Company.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. Filiquarian Publishing.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Moore, Wilbert (1963). Social Change. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- ^ Bouton, Mark (2007). Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis. Sinauer.
- ^ Luts, Ashley (June 14, 2012). "Six Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America". Business Insider. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Heith Copes, Volkan Topalli (2009). Criminological Theory: Reading and Retrospectives. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0073380018.
- ^ Clifford Shaw, Henry D. McKay (1972). Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Phoenix Books."[2]
Accordingly, using their enormous wealth, the failed billionaire experiment hasn't just engineered themselves into power as a proxy government, in control over some of the top positions in our own government, but they have influenced a minority of the population to support the same, and have used active measures and deception to achieve that "critical mass" required to keep them in power, so that they can keep on hoarding.[5]
And where hoarding is when an individual or individuals acquire(s) more assets than they could ever reasonably use, in a manner that is harmful to themselves and/or to others, perfectly describing the failed billionaire experiment of Jeffrey Epstein's and Putin child trafficking crime syndicate of billionaire oligarchs.[5]
The following graph below proves that this failed billionaire hoarding experiment is not sustainable, because the failed billionaire experiment seeks to increase their assets growth in an exponential manner that simply is not compatible with human population growth.[6]
More simply, the more the billionaires grow and the number of billionaire grow, each of whom wants to see their assets grow on a quarterly basis, the less assets there are for the world's exponentially-growing human population, who need access to the same assets in order to just survive and grow.
Accordingly, the same only leads to the collapse of societies and the collapse of humanity, and thus just like hoarders, and/or serial murderers, who can't stop themselves, the failed billionaire experiment is in need of immediate legal or government intervention to stop those who cannot stop themselves, due to their respective and/or collectively networked mental illness(es).[5]
AN INTRODUCTION TO SCARCITY
The following is the Wikipedia entry for scarcity (social psychology).
There are two social psychology principles that work with scarcity that increase its powerful force. One is social proof. This is a contributing factor to the effectiveness of scarcity, because if a product is sold out, or inventory is extremely low, humans interpret that to mean the product must be good since everyone else appears to be buying it. The second contributing principle to scarcity is commitment. If someone has already committed themselves to something, then find out they cannot have it, it makes the person want the item more.
Although people usually think of scarcity in a physical manner, it is important to note that the 'product' in short supply can also be abstract ideas such as time or energy.
Examples
There are no toilet rolls on the shelves in March 2020.This idea is deeply embedded in the intensely popular “Black Friday” shopping extravaganza that many United States consumers participate in every year on the day after Thanksgiving. More than getting a bargain on a great gift, shoppers thrive on the competition itself, which is obtaining the scarce product.[5]
Another example of the effects of scarcity is the phenomenon of panic buying, which drives people to display hoarding behaviors when faced with the possibility of going without a certain product.[6] Historically, panic buying was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Due to the pandemic, people panic bought toilet paper out of fear of limited product supply, creating a shortage.
Effects of scarcity in humans
Scarcity of resources can create frustration due to the inability to obtain the coveted item.
Hoarding
Scarcity is also considered by some to encourage hoarding behavior.[6] Researchers have found that when consumers are faced with perceived scarcity, they may become overwhelmed by the fear of needing an item and not having it. This can lead to unnecessary buying and hoarding of items that are already in short supply.[7] This in turn creates a cycle of scarcity in which people are so afraid of going without a needed item, they buy all they are able, thus furthering the actual scarcity of the item.
Impulse buying
Impulse buying can also be a side effect of perceived scarcity. When people are faced with the possibility of having to go without an item, they often times will buy it, with no regard to whether or not it is actually needed.[5] This, similarly to hoarding, often stems from a sense of urgency that develops when an item is perceived to be scarce.[8]
Heuristics
Heuristics are basically mental shortcuts to be able to make judgement calls quickly. We use heuristics to speed up our decision-making process when an exhaustive, deliberative process is perceived to be impractical or unnecessary. Thus heuristics are simple, efficient rules, which have developed through either evolutionary proclivities or past learning. While these “rules” work well in most circumstances, there are certain situations where they can lead to systemic errors or cognitive bias.[4]
According to Robert Cialdini, the scarcity heuristic leads us to make biased decisions on a daily basis.[9] It is particularly common to be biased by the scarcity heuristic when assessing quantity, rarity, and time.
Quantity
The simplest manifestation of the scarcity heuristic is the fear of losing access to some resource resulting from the possession of a small or diminishing quantity of the asset. For example, your favorite shirt becomes more valuable when you know you cannot replace it. If you had ten shirts of the same style and color, losing one would likely be less distressful because you have several others to take its place.
Rarity
Objects can increase in value if they have unique properties, or are exceptionally difficult to replicate. Collectors of rare baseball cards or stamps are simple examples of the principle of rarity.
Time
When faced with a short amount of time, the decision may be rushed and made in haste, leaving room for error in decision making.
Studies
Numerous studies have been conducted on the topic of scarcity in social psychology:
- Scarcity rhetoric in a job advertisement for restaurant server positions has been investigated. Subjects were presented with two help-wanted ads, one of which suggested numerous job vacancies, while the other suggested that very few were available. The study found that subjects who were presented with the advertisement that suggested limited positions available viewed the company as being a better one to work for than the one that implied many job positions were available. Subjects also felt that the advertisement that suggested limited vacancies translated to higher wages. In short, subjects placed a positive, higher value on the company that suggested that there were scarce job vacancies available.[10]
- Another study examined how the scarcity of men may lead women to seek high-paying careers and to delay starting a family. This effect was driven by how the sex ratio altered the mating market, not just the job market. Sex ratios involving a scarcity of men led women to seek lucrative careers because of the difficulty women have in finding an investing, long-term mate under such circumstances.[11]
Conditional variations
Although the scarcity heuristic can always affect judgment and perception, certain situations exacerbate the effect. New scarcity and competition are common cases.
New scarcity
New scarcity occurs when our irrational desire for limited resources increases when we move from a state of abundance to a state of scarcity.[12] This is in line with psychological reactance theory, which states that a person will react strongly when they perceive that their options are likely to be lessened in the future.
Worchel, Lee & Adewole (1975) demonstrated this principle with a simple experiment. They divided people into two groups, giving one group a jar of ten cookies and another a jar with only two cookies. When asked to rate the quality of the cookie the group with two, in line with the scarcity heuristic, found the cookies more desirable. The researchers then added a new element. Some participants were first given a jar of ten cookies, but before participants could sample the cookie, experimenters removed 8 cookies so that there were again only two. The group first having ten but then were reduced to two, rated the cookies more desirable than both of the other groups.
Competition
In situations when others are directly competing for scarce resources, the value we assign to objects is further inflated. Advertisers commonly take advantage of scarcity heuristics by marketing products as “hot items” or by telling customers that certain goods will sell out quickly.
In 1983, Coleco Industries marketed a soft-sculpted doll that had exaggerated neonatal features and came with "adoption papers". Demand for these dolls exceeded expectations, and spot shortages began to occur shortly after their introduction to the market. This scarcity fueled demand even more and created what became known as the Cabbage Patch panic (Langway, Hughey, McAlevey, Wang, & Conant, 1983). Customers scratched, choked, pushed, and fought one another in an attempt to get the dolls. Several stores were wrecked during these riots, so many stores began requiring people to wait in line (for as long as 14 hours) in order to obtain one of the dolls. A secondary market quickly developed where sellers were receiving up to $150 per doll. Even at these prices, the dolls were so difficult to obtain that one Kansas City postman flew to London to get one for his daughter (Adler et al., 1983).
Effects of scarcity in animals
Red squirrel hoarding food to storeScarcity is not only seen in humans. It can also be seen in the behavior of animals. In fact, one example of scarcity in animals is water. Livestock animals have bodies that are more than half water in volume. The smaller and indigenous animals are more tolerant due to their size. The smaller animals require less water and are better able to survive in areas where water is scarce.[13]
Hoarding is also found in some species of birds and even rodents. This hoarding is typically food. The birds and rodents commonly store up food and hide it in a place that is out of reach for other animals.[14]
Scarcity mentality
The frontal lobe, the biggest lobe of the brain, controls the decision making of the person.Scarcity can be more than a physical limitation. It also involves the frontal lobe in the brain, which is in charge of making decisions. It can also affect how people think and feel.[15] When there are not enough resources, whether financial or time, challenges are created for the human cognitive system. This presents problems such as impulsive behavior which likely impairs performance. These people also exhibit lowered intellectual abilities and more forgetful behaviors. With these impairments and deficits, performance is actually lowered and that causes behaviors that actually worsen the effects of scarcity.[16]
See also
References
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Accordingly, in order to sustain the asset growth of the networked mental illness of the failed billionaire experiment -- assets need to be denied to the majority of non-billionaires competing for the same in order to survive, towards their eventual slavery and/or murder, as is already happening in China, to boost billionaire profits not just in China but around the world -- and this is currently being achieved by denying the majority of non-billionaires, which represents several billions of people, some to all of the following -- a livable wage or gainful employment, legal representation and/or collective bargaining, functional governments that serve the majority instead of the criminal ruling class minority, access to affordable housing, access to affordable food, access to affordable healthcare, access to a toxic free environment, access to affordable loans, access to affordable education, access to censor-free communications and information, access to truth in media, access to truth, transparency, and accountability in government and/or corporate relations, and access to the general resources required to survive and grow the non-billionaire class and/or non-billionaire proxies -- but not limited to the same.[5]
To balance, overpopulation is a long-term threat to humanity, because of our ability to exponentially increase the size of our population, and where every generation needs more and more products to be able to survive and grow, in a manner that is also not sustainable.[5]
This creates a truth and moral paradox, where one the one hand, the failed billionaire experiment of Jeffrey Epstein and Putin are the greatest threat to humanity in the short-term, and, where on the other hand of the same equation, the failed billionaire experiment of Jeffrey Epstein and Putin are the solution to the threat humanity faces due to overpopulation in the long-term, which if left unchecked would require so many products, which would create so much pollution, as to also destroy life on Earth.[5]
This may seem like a dismal future for humanity, but these are the only solutions to these problems.
For example, by implementing a one child policy everywhere, the world's population could be exponentially decreased faster than it took to increase to now over 8 billion people.
This would allow humanity to reduce the global population without having to enslave nor murder off humanity, and allow for the best of humanity, but would come at a cost, because of situations like twins, triplets, octuplets, and the like, who wouldn't be allowed, and so it seems that the only way to reduce the world'd population is sanctioned, engineered, and/or random murder.
However, this isn't the only way either, because just as fertility drugs or medical intervention can be used to engineer twins and octuplets, the same could also be used to control the world's population from posing a threat to itself, and could be achieved through the legalization of the likes of in vitro fertilization.
In this process, a single egg and a single sperm could be used to make a zygote of a single baby for couples, and some eggs and sperm cryopreserved, prior to rendering infertile every parent.
Under this model, almost every couple would be limited to one child, and where the exceptions would be for parents who lose children to accidents or diseases, who would be allowed to have another replacement child, but otherwise, no one, not even billionaires, would be allowed to have more than one child.
The same would exponentially decrease the world's population, allow families to not just have more money and/or to work less, but for them to focus all of their love and attention on a single child, which would make for much healthier children, and thus much healthier societies.
The same would also exponentially reduce the need for resource wars for things like land, water, food, energy, and also exponentially reduce the world's population, because the world's population could for example be reduce to a few million people over generations of practices like these, and reduce the competitive pressures on humanity, and its ability to poison itself.
Imagine a future where every family has a 10 or 100 acre property, their own water, their own wood fuel, their own food production, and everyone who wants to work has a job. The same is obtainable with the right leadership, and is clearly not the leadership of the failed billionaire experiment leading us off a cliff towards the end of the world in pretty much every and any manner they can, primarily because of their networked mental illness, in such a manner that simply can't stop themselves, and thus need to be stopped.
And so humanity can be saved by education, to change cultures and perspectives to facilitate the acceptance of the same, and doesn't need to depend on undemocratic fascist billionaire capitalists to save us by enslaving us and hoarding all of the resources we need to survive, grow, and be happy, only for them to do disgusting things to us once they have enslaved us, nor does humanity need to depend on privatized billionaire socialists to slaughter us, nor does humanity need the billionaire-controlled governments to force our children to submit to genital checks so that our children can pee in the bathrooms our tax dollars paid for our kids to pee in.[5]
And so don't buy into the failed billionaire crime syndicate's polarizing propaganda that the only way we, American, democracy, faith, and/or humanity can be saved is to in-fight amount ourselves over false and deceiving labels.[5]
We aren't the enemy of ourselves or shouldn't be.
The failed billionaire experiment corrupting some of our top public offices of our democracy, to overthrow the same, for us to be enslaved, and to worship the failed billionaire experiment as gods, based on their false propaganda campaigns, are the true enemy, and in need of immediate government intervention -- like addicts, unable to stop themselves from abusing themselves and/or others.[5]
Unite the left and the right against the billionaire's fight of Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate and child trafficker Vladimir Putin. Uniting non-billionaires we'll stand and divided by them we'll fall. It's that simple.
We don't need to "punch a cop" (per the GOP), "slit throats" (per the GOP), nor steal top secret documents threatening the lives of our intelligence community (Trump), nor do we need to send our troops to slaughter, only to then prevent them from parades if they are injured (Trump), and to refer to them as "suckers and losers" if they are killed in the ultimate sacrifice to our country and to their families (Trump).[5]
We just need better leaders in some of our public offices, and stronger laws to protect our government leaders and government employees from being bribed, corrupted, and/or deceived, and we need to hold the criminal ruling elite and every public office accountable in the same manner as we would anyone else, just as we need new laws to end the failed billionaire experiment poisoning everyone, every democratic process, and every living thing.
It is never too late to stop them, because we are 8 billion strong, and they are but a few thousand.
It turns out the only way to stop the failed billionaire experiment of Jeffrey Epstein and Putin, is to stop the failed billionaire experiment of Jeffrey Epstein and Putin. Take everything away from them all as they have tried to do to us all, and resist their evil in any way each of us can do in our own way.[5]
They have tried to enslave us in a manner known as death by slow boiling or death by a thousand cuts, and so we should respond in kind with each us doing whatever we can to stop them, whenever we can. Amen.
Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us twice or more, shame on us. Learn beyond these foxes and get a'woke'n. There is a good reason they don't want others to read books and want to control the narrative and what others perceive as the truth, because if everyone knew that it wasn't the right versus the left, but the top versus the bottom, then there would be a quick end to the top.
Paraphrasing H.G. Wells, "civilization (of the privatized socialist billionaires of Putin and Jeffrey Epstein) is the race between education (of the non-billionaires) and catastrophe (for their failed billionaire experiment).[5]
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SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTES
[1] https://unsplash.com/@randytarampi
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity_(social_psychology)
[3] https://bruignaboinde.blogspot.com/2011/05/life-and-normal-distribution-curve.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning
[6] https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2017/09/15/create-supply-and-demand-economics-curves-with-ggplot2/
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