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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Day 109: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: The Socio-Economic causes of Drug use (Part 13)

This blog is a follow up on:

Day 108: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: The Socio-Economic caused of Drug use (Part 12) In the previous blog I discussed the background from which I wrote the entire 'drug' series - which was based firstly on the Character Dimensions of one type of drug user - and I specifically walked self-forgiveness examples on the 'social-drug user'. In my previous blog I showed that the various reasons for drug use could be emotional/mental character flaws and deficits which cause a person to want to use a chemical to enhance or suppress certain characteristic and memories/experiences - to socio-economic causes such as poverty, abusive life situations, work/career/study pressures etc.

So if one look at the problem we are facing economically, you will notice that most people are being pushed further and further into debt and fear with regards to survival within the current monetary system. Drugs, have therefore become a way to cope with the fear, stress and anxiety - around economic and debt concerns - as it allows the user to suppress emotion and thought reactions to the fears faced. As indicated in my previous blog - this 'free market' principle of our current economy, is the reason why we will 'solve' a problem with more problems/traps - meaning in capitalism the focal point is around making profit, earning 'a living' and of course greed.

Therefore, the problem we are facing behind why people are using drugs is being solved within the current Capitalistic System, not with actual sustainable solutions, but to inject the individual further into a set of rules and life choices, which support someone else's pocket and does not solve the drug users underlying fears, hopes and thought patterns/characteristics, which gave rise to the apparent 'need' to use drugs in the first place. So, as an example we take drug users who use either for pleasure, to avoid pain/fear/anxiety or to cope with Life challenges by giving them 'an edge' and we slot them into either therapy which again focusses on keeping the person in a position to provide an income for a therapist - or we place the person on prescription drugs which are designed and sold as part of a multi billion dollar industry that has nothing to do with helping people- and instead has to do with making profit.

So, how does one solve a drug problem? Obviously, firstly one looks at the reason behind why the person uses drugs - here as indicated early on in this series, I discussed the principle of looking behind the veil of what is the person presenting as being the reason and what is the real reason. For example the individual might say 'I use drugs so that I feel more open and sociable' - leaving one thinking 'ah that doesn't sound so bad'- however by exploring the time line of the person's life and personality design, which is made up of memories and experiences - one will get to the real cause of drug use which is for example that the person believes they need to look and speak a certain way to be acceptable to others because they do not accept themselves. Therefore if the truth were to be told - we will find that our society has been trained and brainwashed to exist as organic robots that are dependent on emotional reactions to our environment and each other and that we cannot simply live in our bodies and accept ourselves - we have to find acceptance through others. This opens the door to a multi-dimensional mind system which from young takes each human through a process of designing personalities, thought constructs and emotion/feelings behavioural patterns that rely on 'who I am in the eyes of the world'. This by direct implication means that no human is every 'complete' - we are always looking for validations from others, validation for what we do, how we look, and our intellectual and monetary accomplishments. This is by design how we from childhood are taught by our parents to create a split within the mind - where the child is taught to not simply live in its physical body, equal and one to the physical reality - but to separate ourselves within our mind to beliefs, ideas, opinions, fear of others, need for approval etc.

This trend has been designed through many generations and comes down to the fuelling of the monetary system and the Ego of the individual. Imagine if all humans were 'complete' meaning if we accepted ourselves and did not seek any validation of experience outside ourselves to determine to ourselves who we are - we would then not have a Capitalistic System because no profit can be made and no greed can be sustained if people are buying products based on what supports us to live and express instead of this frenzy we see in the world, in most humans - within what we see in Consumerism with the values attached to self in relations to 'buying stuff/owning stuff'. Where Self has become one and equal to the value you 'obtain' from that which you own, drive, live in and wear. So the human in essence is a walking talking value system - a piece of paper that has value and if you do not look, talk and act the part then you are seen as worthless - we are money.

So - for example most humans are completely blindly obsessed and intrigued by prophets, masters and guru's like Jesus. However, has anybody stopped to compare how we live now with the lives lived by the prophets, guru's and masters like Jesus? If we all became Jesus look a-likes - Capitalism would not continue to function as it does now because Jesus would not fall for the old consumerism traps, by selling himself into the belief system that to be happy and to be complete you have to fit into the pictures presented to us through the media. Jesus would question the brainwashing coming his way from every direction. Jesus would not feel himself to be completely uncool if he could not buy the newest Levi-Jeans. So - now we sit with a planet full of humans who are addicted to varying forms of drugs to minimise or control the thoughts around the fears and worries we have come to accept as relevant.

So as mentioned before the drug user could be somebody who wants to be better, more acceptable, more enjoying of themselves socially or the drug user could be somebody who has had to face all kinds of pressures within the economic system, and now they again at a monetary cost - rather turn to a chemical suppressant or stimulant to make life seem ok. The numbers speak for themselves - one can simply do a search on the internet on the numer of people who are addicted yearly to drugs - therefore to say 'drugs are not a problem' or 'I am making more out of this then what it is' - you have to realize that you are ignoring facts to protect the current system the way it is. Countless beings are already to numb, their mind to damages on drugs, with most trapped in mind-delusions due to brain/neurological damage that they themselves are not able to even firstly comprehend the 'real' reasons behind their choices for drug use - let alone participate in discussions about the problems we are facing within this world and the candy coating techniques we use to continually avoid the reality we have create for ourselves...

Investigate the current Capitalistic System and Solutions:

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Day 108: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: The Socio-Economic causes of Drug use (Part 12)

This blog is a continuation from:

Day 96: International Crime Research: Drug use Part 1

Day 97: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 2

Day 99: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 3

Day 100: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 4

Day 101: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 5

Day 102: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 6

Day 103: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 7

Day 104: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 8

Day 105: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 9

Day 106: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 10

Day 107: The Psychology of Crimes against Life: Drug use Part 11

The following article and similar research documents on te internet discuss the relationships between poverty, social deprivation/pressure and drug use.

http://www.addictionsearch.com/treatment_articles/article/can-the-stress-of-life-and-the-economy-lead-to-alcohol-and-stimulant-abuse_123.html

In the previous blogs I did, I walked the Character Dimensions of one type of drug user - the social drug user who makes use of a chemical bridge to assist or suppress certain characteristics and behaviours in social situations. Using the basic formats walked within the process of self-forgiveness and introspection, you are able to see that one can take any type of drug user to identify the dimensions that exist 'behind' why the person uses/relies on drugs, to be able to support oneself through the dimensions, step by steps through the process of introspection, writing, self honesty and self forgiveness.

In this blog, I would like to discuss the economic stressors that cause drug use in people as well as an overview of how we as society are stuck on the problem where more often than not further method of drug addiction and medical/psychological dependencies are relied upon, to alleviate the underlying problems within the individual, instead of looking at what solutions would change any form of 'dependency'.

Within the current capitalistic system, we have become dependent and accepting of the 'solution' to drugs being anything that is presented which will allow another individual/company to make profit. Therefore solutions are not always really solving anything - it simply allows for a market as a product/company or individual presenting a service to present their solution at a price - therefore the problems to drug addiction for example exist as part of a cycle which supports the economy and therefore is not about solutions. This cycle is perpetually feeding the underlying stressors that all humans experience - the cause of drug addiction is based on social economic pressures and the solution is to keep the individual under pressure be it to remain trapped but to cope with their emotional behaviour patterns, or to place such an individual in debt where they now have to continue participating in the money system to pay for therapies and medications to continue living a 'drug' or -'trouble free existence'

So what do I mean when I draw this line between this cycle I indicated where we are always loop back into the capitalistic system between stress, debt and apparent solutions to 'problems' to finding solutions that stop all of these cycles from having to perpetually exist...

More:
https://eqafe.com/i/arosouw-life-review-a-drug-addict-as-mind-prophet

https://eqafe.com/p/life-review-a-steroid-fanatic

https://eqafe.com/i/arosouw-creating-heart-disease-through-fear-life-review

https://eqafe.com/i/arosouw-i-fear-missing-out-life-review

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Day 51: International Crime Research: Education Fraud Part 13 – Creating Debt Slaves Part 2

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the disintegration of both the human and the education system as I deliberately only encourage children to go to college/university, so that I may make money - and through this creates the consequences of debt slaves, which if you look at it only serve those who make money and in the end creates dumbed-down, rotten children that care about nothing and no-one as they perceive themselves as being deceived by the system

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the deliberate deception of people within the education system as I force children/families into debt for the rest of their lives, creating debt slaves that will feed my pocket for the rest of their working lives, while knowing and realizing that I can get away with this because the worst consequences still serve my pocket which is to create not only debt slaves - but millions of people who now are forced to work in the system to pay back the loans, who now become working class slaves to continue maintaining the money system.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to deliberately manipulate the education system and the future of mankind in this way - as I understand that the consequences of me lying about why children should study - is to trap them as debt slaves, as working class robots for the rest of their lives

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I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to not pay any attention to the real consequences we will all face in the long run - which is that we will have people that become more agressive and violent against their fellow humans, and that will eventually turn to anarchy against the system.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to regardless of me understanding that we are creating a future of life abusers, to the extent that we will more and more see mind possessed individuals walking into movie houses shooting and killing random people - to still continue sucking the life out of the human robot as all i see the human as is something that I can manipulate to give me money.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the human race to eventually become so hateful and apathetic towards information taught in universities/schools - that they will turn a blind eye to the world as they stop caring about how the world functions, how the physical functions and give in more and more to drugs, mind possession and forms of mind entertainment as an escape from the lives they are forced to live where they are either forced to become debt slaves as a slim chance of getting a good job, or they do not get a qualification and end up working in a minimum wage job, or they accept themselves completely in the rat race of money and sell themselves out - simply to live and compete for money.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to see, realize and understand that I can only push the current and generations to be, so far within this point, until obviously at some stage more and more humans will realize the lie that has become the education system and the functioning's of the deceivers called capitalist - and unfortunately we will see war being waged within countries between individuals and governments, which will mean the lives initially of countless people, before any change is made to the system.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to have to be driven to war and revolutions, where blood will be shed, as was done by the previous generations, instead of changing myself within the starting point of the human I have become that has created this system of lies and deception, to create a new system that supports all life based on self honesty.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to accept myself as a faulty human, rotten to the core and unable to be the change required to change the system - thereby giving permission fo the next 100 years for those who direct the system to manipulate and control my life and the lives of the future generations.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realize that unless I change myself and who I am to that of a being that supports Life for all within what is best for all, the system will not change because I keep giving permission to the same leaders who are leading me according to who I really am and accept within life.

within this - I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realize and see that the current method that education is being punted and pushed to the masses from the starting point of greed instead of development of an effective society, indicates that our system is not working and has failed the betterment of mankind.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing to use hope and faith and belief within my mind to justify in the end, always why it is acceptable that our education system has become one of fraud based on greed and that in light of people being trapped as debt slaves - behind the lie of better job opportunities that have been shown to be a deception -I still excuse away the lies.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to have gotten so accustomed to Fraud and Deception all around me within the Capitalistic system and within how people treat each other, from the starting point of survival, that I will knowingly continue to support the Lie, even at the expense of myself and my family/fellow humans.

I commit myself to show that as the humans who make up the system, we have it within our ability to change the system, and that it requires from each to stand up for life and to stop accepting survival and the secret desire by all to be rich which exists at the opposite polarity of poor - where it allows one to really 'feel' rich and powerful as an energetic experience for a moment, due to the existence of the tow polarities which through the pictures fed through the media, fuels ones fears, wants and desires.

I commit myself to show that unless we become the voice that stands up and changes the system, nothing will change, because those who advertise themselves as being the representatives of change are in fact only there for the Money and Power and will not change the system - according to what would be best for all - and that is why generation and generation, each new government gets away with deception of the masses.

I commit myself to show that all the excuses that allow humanity to continue with the lies, happens inside each human's mind as our thoughts and that in order for us to change what is here - we have to stop and change (purify) the consciousness as it has developed and moulded as the human mind - which drives each human as the believable voice we have come to see as 'who we are' - not looking back at how the characters of 'who we are' were developed and designed from childhood based on fear of survival and the development of the Psyche of Greed and Self-Interest.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Day 50: International Crime Research: Education Fraud Part 12 – Creating Debt Slaves Part 1

Governments fueling Debt Fraud:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/college-conspiracy/

“During an economic downturn when Americans are losing their jobs, their primary instinct is to seek higher education in order to make themselves more attractive to potential employers and better position themselves to receive a job, however how are Americans supposed to spend twenty seven thousand two hundred ninety three dollars per year for college when they have no savings or income to pay for it? The US government with the backing of the federal reserve in the same way they created the real estate bubble by providing mortgages to all Americans, regardless of whether or not they had any capacity to pay the loans back, has been using the exact same easy lending practices to create one of the largest bubbles in US history - the college bubble. College students borrowed one hundred and six billion dollars in total student loans for the 2009 - 2010 school year, up from ninety six billion in two 2008 – 2009, up from ninety four billion in 2007 – 2008. Eighty seven billion in 2006 – 2007 and eighty three billion in 2005 – 2006. Total student loan debt in the US currently stands at eight hundred and thirty billion dollars and now exceeds credit card debt."

The Student Loan Debt Bubble

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/35-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-college-education-has-become-a-giant-money-making-scam

#1 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

#2 According to the College Board, college tuition is absolutely soaring. The following comes from a recent CBS News article....

Average tuition and fees at public colleges rose 8.3 percent this year and, with room and board, now exceed $17,000 a year, according to the College Board.

#3 Average yearly tuition at private universities in the United States is now upto $27,293. That figure has increased by 29% in just the past five years.

#4 In America today, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loan debt.

#5 In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately $25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day.

#6 According to the Student Loan Debt Clock, total student loan debt in the United States will surpass the 1 trillion dollar mark in early 2012.

#7 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceedsthe total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

#8 Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is approximately 6% higher than the general rate of inflation.

#9 Back in 1952, a full year of tuition at Harvard was only $600. Today, it is$35,568.

#10 The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade.

#11 One survey found that 23 percent of all college students actually usecredit cards to pay for tuition or fees.

#12 According to recent Pew Research Center polling, 75% of all Americans believe that college is too expensive for most Americans to afford.

#13 College has become so expensive that it is causing many college students to do desperate things in order to pay for it. For example, an increasing number of young college women are actively advertising on the Internet for "sugar daddies" who will help them pay their college bills.

#14 The student loan default rate has nearly doubled since 2005.

#15 Approximately 14 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment.

The Quality Of College Education In America Stinks

#16 The typical U.S. college student spends less than 30 hours a week on academics.

#17 According to very extensive research detailed in a new book entitled "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses", 45 percent of all U.S. college students exhibit "no significant gains in learning"after two years in college.

#18 Today, college students spend approximately 50% less time studying than U.S. college students did just a few decades ago.

#19 35% of U.S. college students spend 5 hours or less studying per week.

#20 50% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to write more than 20 pages.

#21 32% of U.S. college students have never taken a class where they had to read more than 40 pages in a week.

#22 U.S. college students spend 24% of their time sleeping, 51% of their time socializing and 7% of their time studying.

#23 Federal statistics reveal that only 36 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.

Self-Forgiveness follows in Part 2

Sources:

“35 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education Has Become A Giant Money Making Scam.” The American Dream. [http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/35-shocking-facts-that-prove-that-college-education-has-become-a-giant-money-making-scam]. Retrieved on 24 Sep 2012.

“College Conspiracy.” Top Documentary Films. [http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/college-conspiracy/]. Retrieved on 10 September 2012.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Day 49: International Crime Research: Education Fraud Part 11 – The recession and Supply and Demand

Self-Forgiveness in this blog will focus on the following information:

DAY 49: RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION: SUPPLY & DEMAND

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-49-resource-distribution-supply.html

Purchasing power: I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the capitalistic system to separate people according to those who have money and those who do not.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to limit people’s abilities to provide for their basic needs according to their purchasing power.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to place the control and management of the planet’s resources in the hands of the minority, who manage the resources for their own greed.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the management of resources to not be about the equal distribution to all who inhabit the planet, but only for those who have sufficient money to be able to have ‘purchasing power;

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to make such a big deal out of the concept of purchasing power – giving it some special value that makes those with purchasing power feel special and good about themselves within the system, when in fact purchasing power means death and discomfort to many, while lining the pockets of the Elite few through the spending of the working class slaves.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to deny the wants and needs of the many, to maintain a crooked system, which is about keeping an equilibrium where we always have to pay to live.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to play my role in the equilibrium of the capitalistic system, where my need for a product determines it’s price and this needs is dependent on my addiction to energy as the products that are bound by images, colors, and concepts within ones mind which you perceive you are experiencing through having this product = therefore we have shows that the entertainment of the human mind exploited by the Elitists to make more money – has more value than Life on this planet.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to provide resources only for those with money, and to leave and justify the abuse of countless beings each day within the Money System.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to experience an energetic rush, as I come across that product – so many users/consumers desire, which costs above what most can afford, which I am able to afford – thus heightening my status in society, in my friendship circles, and within myself as I have placed myself above the rest, monetarily and through my own ego-mind relationship with myself.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing supply and demand as I respect this economic law, as it allows me to brag and feel proud within myself at the ‘things’ I was able to acquire due to my purchasing power – not realizing I am handing the Elite/those who control money all the tools with which to further fuck humanity into debt slavery and money control – but for now I allow it because all-in-all – my backchat says - it is worth it, as I experience mental masturbation due to my ‘purchasing power’

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to play the opposite polarity of the one who cannot afford luxuries, staring through the shop window in envy at that ‘beautiful’ product, and experiencing pangs of regret as I see another with the product I cannot have – creating more and more emotional energy and fear within myself towards not being able to fulfill myself within buying everything I would needs to look good and feel good.

Law of Demand: I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to play the role within the law of demand of the needy, hungry, human who directs itself not from what is practically required –but driven from energy systems – making the human believe we serve some ‘god given design’ called individuality – but is actually just s reacting to he highs and lows of Mind energy – as we are not yet the directors of the Mind as we so clearly see in the fundamentals of how consumerism functions.

I commit myself to show that the economy exists to protect money and those with money and therefore has nothing to do with the advancement or protection of Life.

I commit myself to show that the current money system is one of pure evil – because its only function is to protect those with money while profiting from the gap between rich and poor and the emotional states that it places people into as they are forced into fear of survival – and how this influences the consumer to participate in consumption.

I commit myself to the development of a new economic system – which involved the proper research of what is required for all humans to live, how to manage and distribute the resources accordingly and the ongoing management of what is best for all Life on this planet.

More Self-Forgiveness and Self-Corrective Statements on Supply and Demand:

DAY 50: RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION - PART 2

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-50-resource-distribution-part-2.html

DAY 51: RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION - PART 3

http://economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-51-resource-distribution-part-3.html

Day 143: Free Stuff! And True Activism

http://creationsjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-143-free-stuff-and-true-activism.html

Source:

“College Conspiracy.” Top Documentary Films. [http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/college-conspiracy/]. Retrieved on 10 September 2012.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Day 42: International Crime Research: Education Fraud Part 4 – the Recession

This is a follow up on: http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-41-international-crime-research.html#

I suggest watch the following Documentary:

The College Conspiracy

From the transcription of the Documentary I will draw information for the application of self-forgiveness on the current Education System of the World:

“College tuition has seen a five point one five percent annual price inflation over the past five years. This is despite the fact that the US real estate prices are down twenty six percent from their peak in july of 2006 and the dow jones is down 18% from its peak in october of 2007. Even oil is down 38% from its peak in july of two thousand eight. During the financial crisis of two thousand eight Americans lost ten point two trillion dollars in paper wealth. College is the only thing in America besides the cost of health care they did not temporarily decline in price.

Gerald Celente from Trends Research Institute: “Inflation has made it impossible. When I was a kid you never heard parents say “we're planning and putting money away for your education because it's going to cost us a hundred thousand dollars and we have to keep putting that money away, so that when you graduate not only will you not pay us back – your not even going to get a job.” Over just a two year period from December of 2007 through December 2009 eight million three hundred sixty three thousand jobs in America were lost, or one percent of total jobs. One year later in December of 2010 thanks to the federal reserve in the US government, spending four point six trillion dollars on bailouts stimulus programs and other government spending, one point one two four million jobs in America or point nine percent of total jobs has been recovered. That is over four million dollar spent for each job created.
As we move deeper into this great recession, as inflation continues to skyrocket, the reality of the great depression will come in because people will realize that all that worthless money you have cannot buy you much of anything. You are going to see more and more people believing that by going to college that's going to be their passport to the future. Its not what it use to be - a college degree – what will that buy you?”

Before continuing with the Self-Forgiveness on the Education Scam, let first look at ‘the Recession’:

"RECESSION IN SIMPLE TERMS"

Source: http://mmohsin.blogspot.com/

"A recession is a prolonged period of time where a nation's economy is slowing down or as the economists usually put it contracting. This slow down is actually characterized by a number of different trends, some of those trends are: People buying less stuffDecrease in factory productionGrowing unemploymentSlump in personal incomeAn unhealthy stock market But just because the economy is slowing down or contracting that doesn't automatically mean that there is a recession going on. In fact according to the actual definition of a recession the slowdown in the economy actually has to last for at least six months or two consecutive quarters. But even though we have a definition of what a recession is and we understand what it means to be in a recession, this definition actually causes more questions than it actually answers. The reason for this is that even though we talk about the US economy or any economy as an independent entity, it is actually the result of millions of people's actions. And economists use all sorts of terms to describe the connection between people's actions and the economy as a whole. But even though they use all sorts of terms you can get the basic understanding of how people's actions are connected to the economy as a whole by looking at a few basic concepts. Those concepts are: producers, consumers, markets, supply and demand.

Understanding producers and consumers

To put it in simple terms a nation's economy is the production and consumption of goods (food, clothes, cars, etc) and services (repairs, haircuts, lawn care, etc) in that particular nation. And basically anybody who is producing or consuming the goods or services in that nation plays some kind of role in that nation's economy. What this boils down to is that a nation is dependent on both businesses and consumers; businesses produce the goods and services, while consumers actually purchase the goods or use the services. In fact this all boils down to the fact that production and consumption are intertwined, basically one cannot exist without the other. The reason for this is that in order for people to be able to consume things you actually need to have someone or something producing the things that the people are consuming. And in order to produce things you are going to need to consume things. A great example of needing to consume things in order to produce things is the fact that if you are producing clocks you are going to need to consume people's labor to make those clocks and you are going to be consuming natural resources when you are running the plant to produce those clocks.

Understanding markets

In the United States rather than being a market economy we are actually a modified market economy. But in either case in both types of economies production and consumption are connected in various markets. And in both cases a market is simply a place where consumers can go to buy things from producers and producers can go to sell things to consumers. In fact in most economies there are two basic kinds of markets, a physical market and an abstract market. But the most interesting thing to note is that in most cases everybody is going to be a producer and a consumer, but to be each of these they are going to be acting in different markets. A physical market is where producers and consumers can go to buy and sell their goods. A great example of a physical market is a grocery store. The reason for this is that with a grocery store people can go to the store if they are looking to consume food. At the store they can purchase the food from the producers, but in most cases they are purchasing it through a series of middlemen. Two great examples of the abstract market are the labor market and the stock market. With the labor market businesses who want to consume work pay people to produce labor. And with the stock market people and businesses or consumers and producers buy and sell percentages of ownership for various companies.
Understanding supply and demandBasically the goal of every producer is to make money and in order to make money the producer is going to need to sell their product at a higher price than what it cost them to make the product. And with consumers their main goal is to buy the products for the cheapest price possible. This is where supply and demand comes into play in the economy. In any kind of market the action of both the producers and consumers determine the value of goods and services, basically the actions determine the price that is paid for goods and services. The producers are the ones who actually set the price of the products, but they set the price based on how their consumers are behaving. What this boils down to is if a product is not selling than the producer knows that the price is too high so they are going to need to lower it. But if a product is selling, but not selling quickly the producers know they have two options, lower the price again or decrease the supply of the product. How the consumers affect the price of the product is through demand, either they want the product or they don't. Producers need to pay close attention to the demand when pricing products, but even if there is a high demand for a certain product the producers still need to keep the price as low as possible because all the consumers need to do is buy it from somebody else.

How these factors work in a growing economy and a contracting economy

The first thing that you need to know about a growing economy is that in this type of economy consumer demand is actually increasing more than it is decreasing. And since there is an increasing demand producers are going to want to increase supply. But in order to increase supply producers are going to need to increase their consumption of other goods and services, including labor. What this boils down to is that when labor increases people can get paid more for their work, which in turn means they have more money to spend on various products and services. And because people have more money to spend this means that demand is going to increase even more. And if the demand increases enough producers can actually increase their prices, in a hope of decreasing the demand a little bit. Overall in a growing economy both consumers and producers feel good about the growing economy and tend to make numerous investments because they know that if things keep going the way they have been their investment is going to increase in value. But history of the economy has actually proven that no economy can expand forever, there just comes a time when the economy has to contract. And a prolonged period of contraction is known as a recession and as most of us know if the recession lasts for a prolonged period of time, several years, it is then referred to as a depression. In fact there are all kinds of things that can change the course of the economy, which can lead to a recession. One huge factor that plays a role in a recession is the confidence level of the millions of consumers and producers. Basically if they stop feeling confident about the economy, including job security or the value of their investments, they are not going to buy as much stuff. But another thing that can help to start a recession is over-production, which means there is more supply of a product then there is demand for a product. But no matter what the cause of the recession basically what happens is that people lose their jobs because the demand for products and services are not there. And when people lose their jobs they tend to spend as little money as possible because they need that money to live on. But also people who are working are affected because they are afraid that they might not be working much longer so rather than spend money on products and services they are going to save that money just in case they lose their job. In a contracting economy what happens is rather than spiraling upwards everything is spiraling downwards.

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Sources:

Mohammed, Mohsin. “Recession in Simple Terms.” [http://mmohsin.blogspot.com/]. Retrieved on: 10 September 2012.