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Old 06-10-2009, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by dv8 View Post
thank you, robert.
what i meant, in my naive way, is that people must really NEED change. in poland it was brought by opression, just like in DR the assasination of trujillo (see, dominicans can take action too). the problem is, that from the assasination things went down the hill, as far as economy and order goes. i was told that peso was exceptionally strong in trujillo times, health system and power were working well.
"Need" preceeds "want". Often "want" has to be described to folks. "Want" is the action plan to implement need.

I know it's wrod parsing to a certain extent.

But often folks compare their current situation to the pain necessary to get to where they "want", and decide the marginal effort isn't worth the marginal benefit. When the benefit of "want" exceeds the pain and effort for the majority of people, THAT is when Real Change will take place.
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