Join the Club
“Join the Club” is an interesting book written by Tina Rosenberg. It talks about the importance of the peer pressure. I totally agree with this importance that the author attaches to the peer pressure.
I believe that everything that we do in our lives we do it because of the peer pressure. Let’s take a look at communism. “It’s a wonderful but utopist idea”. Almost everyone agrees with that expression. The main reason that that system did not work out was definitely the lack of motivation. The peer pressure did not work there with full strength because there was no way to compare achievements.
On the capitalist system, there is a very strong peer pressure to increase the accumulation of possessions. The people that have more possessions obviously gain a more important status in society. If we take for granted that this is wrong obviously there is a need to change this somehow. One way would be to adore something other than money. I’ve heard (I don’t know how much it is true) that in Scandinavian countries, especially Norway, there are people who work really hard and gain 4.000 EUR per month and other people that do not work and take social insurance of up to 3.000 EUR per month. This seems unconceivable to me, yet there no one complains.
So if we can motivate somehow people with anything other than money we can make the world a better place.
Indrit Beqaraj
This blog is becoming like facebook my friend. Girls and boys comment only to girls' posts and no one comments to the boys. :P
YanıtlaSilI personally am a leftie. I haven't analyzed the Scandinavian situation thoroughly but I think other factors are at stake there, not only the money issue. Perhaps the ones who gain assistance are seen as lazy and at a lower status, perhaps people can't live without going to work, perhaps they have developed a moral obligation that going to work is some kind of a sanctity....
S.K.
Like Saimir I want to give another comment here. I also have heard about the fact you mentioned above about Norway people but it seems that they have done pretty well with peer pressure as far as there are no complains. For us maybe sounds strange but as soon as they have big standard of lives and payments they don't feel so much the pressure as poor countries I think.
YanıtlaSilSaimir here is a girl that comments on a boy's post:))
YanıtlaSilI dont't agree with you Indrit when you say that everything we do we do it because of the peer pressure. If the author of the book "The how of happiness" will hear that, he will become angry. We do things even because this things make us happy.