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George S asked in Social ScienceEconomics · 10 years ago

Do you understand the mice in the fields, not the pigs in the root garden, ruin the economies of the world?

The mice people, still everywhere except the Euro-cultures who only a couple generations ago started using effective birth control, are multiplying by the hundreds of millions and billions. They are eating up, often literally, the economies of the world.

Are you middle class people focusing only on the relatively few upper class pig people eating the fancy roots you would like for yourselves while the lower class swarms of mice people are consuming entire grain fields and other economic staples?

This reference is just partly symbolic. The overpopulating "mice" people are literally consuming the world's staples; but far beyond that they ruin economies undercutting wages with their huge hordes of excess labor, destroy the environment by spreading out into the habitat of all other species, and force wars for the increasing amount of land and resources their burgeoning hordes must have.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Well this all depends where you stand on your economic views as to "whose evil".

    Socialist economics will tell you that the income earned by the 'pigs' should be dispersed among the middle and lower class, or making economic equality.

    Right wing (or as people say Capitalist) economics will tell you that the income earned by the 'pigs' is benefiting investment which is a very legitimate argument and also helps in other ways.

    The fact is that the idea of the "who to blame" scenario is pointless. We are stuck in a situation where we need cheap labour in order to produce more, but high wages in order to buy goods and services. There is no way to fix this problem (one of the few in economics where there is no solution as one causes the opposite to the other). An attempt to fix this is social welfare, where income is provided by the government to assist with necessities. However social welfare also causes more revenue needed by the government to pay for it, which causes deficits in government spending (unless borrowing which has major negatives to it) and increases inflation (unless the situation occurs where it is negated by a fall in consumer spending and investment)

    In the end, investment allows for more growth. Unfortunately equity (or unfairness) means that it is wrong to allow high income earners to have higher incomes to support the economy.

    And also you shouldn't bring racial elements into your argument. Whether anyone has that opinion, blaming certain cultures is unfair. If they want to work for cheaper, sure I would rather have a job than them in my own country but that isn't an economic problem... that's a political problem and therefore only politics can stop it.

  • L.T.M.
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Big problem with no simple answer right? How about a LOT more of what we know works. Teaching the mice people to fish, so to speak. To be more self sufficient. Many Christian and secular charities have the right idea : http://www.bing.com/search?q=missionaries%20teachi... - it just needs to be done on a larger scale. Not only is it 'compassionate', it's the smart thing to do.

  • 10 years ago

    The "huge hordes of excess labor" are for the benefit of the greedy pig people who need to flaunt their wealth with excess goods and luxury. All of that is wasted labor and money at the behest of your precious "pig people." Yes

  • 10 years ago

    Kinda reminds me of how the American West was settled by Europeans.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Your analogy is not only lame, it smacks of the Nazi "Master Race" propaganda speeches of the 1930's. You and your ilk frighten me.

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