[C38] Economics of boat ownership
Don Strong
drstrong at ucdavis.edu
Mon Aug 9 12:14:05 EDT 2010
Tom & Bill: Economists call behavioral choices such as pleasure boat
ownership "hedonistic," actions that supposedly maximize pleasure while
incurring little pain or suffering. After my haul out last week, I'm
questioning the concept...
Don
On 8/9/10 9:05 AM, Tom T. wrote:
> No problem Bill,
> As boat owners, we knew right away that sending that email about
> economics to this group was probably a mistake.
> If we had even a clue about economics, we probably wouldn't be boat
> owners!
> Tom Troncalli
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bill Haynes <mailto:hayneswm at charter.net>
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> *Sent:* 8/9/2010 10:34:43 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [C38] Who Does our Economy Serve?
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> Thank you for your understanding. It won't happen
> again...............
> Bill
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> Thought it was probably a mistake, it happens to all of us
> from time to time.
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> *From:* listserve-bounces at catalina38.org
> [mailto:listserve-bounces at catalina38.org] *On Behalf Of *Bill
> Haynes
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:51 AM
> *To:* Catalina 38 Listserve
> *Subject:* Re: [C38] Who Does our Economy Serve?
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> Oooops, sorry for this post. It was meant for one of my
> retired AF buddies.
> Bill
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bill Haynes <mailto:hayneswm at charter.net>
> *To:* Catalina 38 Listserve <mailto:listserve at catalina38.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:40 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [C38] Who Does our Economy Serve?
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> Paul, Thom has stated the plight of the middleclass in
> this country so much better than I could. Sure, you know
> some middleclass folks who are doing pretty well. I do
> also. However, taken as a whole, the middleclass is not
> doing so well. Read this and then let me know what you
> would do about it.
> Bill
> Thom's blog
> *Who Does our Economy Serve?*
> *Ed Luce with The Financial Times' has documented the
> "crisis of middle-class America."* He notes the "median
> wage stagnation" that has hit most American families, and
> writes, "the annual incomes of the bottom 90 per cent of
> US families have been essentially flat since 1973....That
> means most Americans have been treading water for more
> than a generation." At the same time, the Financial Times
> notes, America's CEOs have seen their compensation go up
> over a hundredfold. The result is a level of inequality
> not seen in this country since 1929, and the conversion of
> the middle class of 1940 to 1980, into the terrified
> working poor of the post Reaganomics era, the vast
> majority of whom live paycheck to paycheck, with no
> significant savings, and only a job loss and a few weeks
> from being homeless and on the streets.
> *The new GDP report shows our economic growth slowed to a
> 2.4 percent rate* in the second quarter, too slow to put
> Americans back to work. Much more worrisome are details in
> this report pointing to a continued slowdown this year.
> According to a recent survey by the Employee Benefit
> Research Institute, workers are cashing in their
> retirement plans just to stay afloat. Their grim
> statistics show the percentage of American workers who
> have less than $10,000 in savings grew to 43 percent in
> 2010. Almost 25% of all workers have postponed their
> planned retirement in the past year. A CareerBuilder.com
> survey reports that 61 percent of workers are now living
> paycheck to paycheck, as compared to 43 percent in 2007.
> Meanwhile, Bankers at the big Wall Street banks wrapped up
> their best month in a year. This begs a question. Economic
> activity happens in America because government authorizes
> corporations and gives substantial benefits and
> limitations of liability to those few individuals who own
> most of corporate America. Thus the question: Is this
> economy our Government has created here to serve the
> wealthy people who own it, or did we bring it into being
> and do we support and maintain it so it can benefit
> average working people, and thus Democracy?
> -Thom
>
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Donald R. Strong
Professor
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University of California, Davis 95616
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