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Ummm, that is a difficult question. let me go way out off topic (or maybe not) and talk a bit of recent history. My grandparents (and their children) went from having a pleasant life raising their crops in their own land to suddenly having to sell roots door to door. Early thirties. Just 3 or 4 years before my father was born. I can guess you know the reason.
But eventually they were able to raise their kids and carry on.
WWII made the US citizens work like horses, not to mention how hard working (and with minimum wages) yet productive it was during the fifties and up until mid sixties.
Then came the Japanese. Though they recieved tons of money for rebuilding their country, as soon as 1972-73 they already kicked major ass in the busyness world, General Motors were shocked. I remember reading about the salaries of both US and Japanese top executives around the mid eighties on some newspaper and it was shocking to say the least if you compared them. Of course nowadays Corea is doing the same to them. The same is happening in Europe. Of course we all need to have the latest gadgets, the best cars, bikes, clothes, shoes, houses, furniture, etc. Yeah, this all I´m sure it sounds demagogic, but it´s true. Who nows, maybe a good recession even worse than the last ones will make people turn off their PC´s and move their asses.
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