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Since even Meiji Emperor came to pay respect for gods enshrined in this great shrine 130 years ago, so that today two million people make a pilgrimage to this sacred place in the first three days of the year, every year. (http://www.mapple.net/sp_newyear/ranking_01.asp)Optimum Distribution of Wealth and Faith
How wonderful it is for you to survive 2010 into 2011!
How wonderful it is for your neighbors to survive 2010 into 2011!
CHAPTER I: Quest for Optimum Economy and GDP
The criteria to judge a degree of optimality is of course how many people in a nation feel happiness.
If 100% of the population feel happy, the economy they are engaged in is quite optimum.
If only one very super-rich person feels happy, the economy they are engaged in is not optimum at all.
This optimality might be achieved by making economy grow or shrink, depending on an initial state of the economy in question.
Yet, you may wonder how much happiness is assumed here. And, the more one makes money, the more he or she wants to make money? Should any theory get based on such a subjective criterion?
Indeed, money can buy you finite happiness, and love can make you infinitely happy.
Anyway, my suggestion is to realize an optimum state in each of T1, T2, T3, and T4 elements and in total of those elements:
G: Economic growth
T1: Contribution from the tire-1 elements
T2: Contribution from the tire-2 elements
T3: Contribution from the tire-3 elements
T4: Contribution from the tire-4 elements
G = T1 + T2 + T3 + T4
= T1 (consumers/communities/nature) + T2 (national finance/regulations/international competition) + T3 (global & domestic competition/technological innovation) + T4 (central bank operations/commercial finance)
Note: T1 > T2 > T3 > T4, in terms of effect on reality of economy. And, the total effects of T1 + T2 + T3 must normally account for 99%, since the Great Depression is an even that happen once a century. T4 is fractional, in this context, which cannot exceed 10%.
But, why is optimization important?
If economics teaches that an optimum state of a man is being super rich, every one would try to be super rich, making others poor, which is the easiest way to achieve the goal.
If economics teaches that an optimum state of a man is being richer, every one would try to be richer, making others a little poor, which is the easiest way to achieve the goal.
If economics teaches that an optimum state of a man is being as rich as others, every one would try to be as rich as others, making others not richer than himself or herself, which is the easiest way to achieve the goal.
If economics teaches that an optimum state of a man is being poor, every one would try to be poor, making others also poor, which is the easiest way to achieve the goal.
But, the best is, according to Christ Jesus, making others as happy as you are.
Before entering Kingdom of God, mankind would probably like to pass an era of optimization after the era of greedy maximization.
Check some:
In economics, utility is a measure of relative satisfaction. Given this measure, one may speak meaningfully of increasing or decreasing utility, and thereby explain economic behavior in terms of attempts to increase one's utility. Utility is often modeled to be affected by consumption of various goods and services, possession of wealth and spending of leisure time.
The doctrine of utilitarianism saw the maximization of utility as a moral criterion for the organization of society. According to utilitarians, such as Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–1876), society should aim to maximize the total utility of individuals, aiming for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility
Taking into financial desire of every one, introducing the paradigm of optimization is important as a means to prevent the gap between the rich and the poor further getting wider. If you look at the current situation of accumulation of wealth in the hands of limited people, you might further understand the need to adopt this paradigm of optimality especially in the democratic and free-market-based world.
NEW YORK, June 10, 2010—Global wealth staged a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5 percent to $111.5 trillion, just short of the year-end peak set in 2007. But the rebound in wealth should not be seen as a return to business as usual—client trust and wealth manager performance are still lower than they were before the global economic crisis, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
North America posted the largest absolute gain in wealth at $4.6 trillion (15 percent), but the largest percentage gain—and the second largest in absolute terms—occurred in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), where wealth increased by 22 percent, or $3.1 trillion. That was nearly double the global rate.
North America accounted for about 40 percent of the $11.5 trillion increase in global wealth in 2009. Its wealth increased to $35.1 trillion.
The number of millionaire households rose by about 14 percent in 2009, to 11.2 million—about where it stood at the end of 2007.
The United States had by far the most millionaire households (4.7 million) followed by Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-49877
As there are about 110 million households in the U.S., only 4% of them are die-hard millionaire families. So, very happy people account for 4%, happy people for 40%, and non-happy people 56% of the whole American population. Is this ratio optimal?
CHAPTER II: Absolute Deity
Judaism became a religion no more restricted by a tribe, a territory, or a temple when Hebrew prophets started to deliver words of the God.
But, they thought they had to suffer due to their sins before they were blessed by the God.
It is very reasonable, since the Hebrew people lost wars and thus their territory, their superiority as a tribe, and the great temple in Jerusalem. Their God must have been able to work on them who had nothing but the minds.
This is a great situation, since the concept of absolute deity emerged among Hebrews, since they were between the West and the East in this context.
Yet, I have a feeling the world is still divided by the Euphrates.
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Now we have only one day till the great, great New Year's Eve!
The New Year's Day is so sacred that we cannot perfectly celebrate it with our limited faith; so, the New Year's Eve is the time for us to earn last points.
So, what would you do on December 31 to save the world, even if you are busy saving yourself?
Anyway, as this blog is intended to contribute to spread of the holy words, I will refer to some prophecy:
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And, for your reference, in Prophecy of St. Malachy:
267/111 Glory of the olive
Benedict XVI (2005-), Joseph Ratzinger
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He will reign during the ultimate persecution of the Holy Roman Church.
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268/112 Peter the Roman
"who will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the fearsome Judge will judge His people. The End."
Remember it was 2000 years from Abraham to Christ Jesus, and it is another 2000 years from Christ Jesus to you.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D84sLB8tUMo&feature=related)
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Mar 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: