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We are living in an era of consumers driven market and economy. It means the consumers decide what product or service is needed in the market place. This is a new scheme in the history of the capitalism.
Originally at the birth of the capitalism, the entrepreneur determines what to produce and thus what people should buy.
Then it turned into a world of free competition where if one produces the better will lead the market. At this point, it is not necessary the case where the consumer determines what is better and what is not. There were more than one stakeholder including the entrepreneur, the manufacturer, the distributor and the consumer who ought to be involved for the decision of good and bad.
Some time later, the technology advancement changed the landscape of the market, on top of every thing exist before. The technology dictated the market and the limit of the technology shaped the market opportunity and growth.
In early 1990s, it was started that the general consumers became to have more says and a strong influence to the market, and this trend is yet being accelerated.
The positive aspect of the general consumer driven market is that it provides a new mechanism to deal with the situations and issues that the traditional market drivers would fail to handle. These situations and issues include the global warming issue, unfavoured labour condition, immoral industrial or business practices and so on. It also promotes the employees oriented work environment since the general consumers are also the employees.
On the other hands, this consumer driven market scheme can pull the economy condition from one extreme to the other in a short period of time. This is because people are panicky in its nature and the whole economy will be strongly influenced by that traits. Hence the economy has become more unpredictable and less stable. Today the world economy is formed by interconnection and interdependence of regional ones. And that means the scale and the degree of the economy turbulence is much greater.
We can see this in the real life in 2008 as such the world wide recession triggered by Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy due to the collapse of the risky sub-prime loan and the slump of the US major car manufacturers due to excessive investment. Both were caused by a series of misleading consumer’s indexing figures conjunction with the greedy and aggressive bank and security company’s business practice.
In coming years, we will have to see more drastic and even much larger scale of economy turns.
We definitely need a new control theory of the economy in order to have a better management hence the existing one is not functioning well.
突然、気でも狂ったかのように英語で書いていますが、これはちょっとした実験です。
同じ事を考えているとき、日本語と英語とではその表現に、ここでは書き言葉としてですが、どんな違いがあるかということを研究してみたくなったわけです。
実は本業の仕事も忙しいし、MBAの授業でも課題はいっぱい出てるし、おまけに今、個人的にも悩ましい問題を抱えていてこんなことをやっておる場合ではないのです。
が、どうもボクは暴走ぐせがあって、忙しければ忙しいほど余計なことをやってしまうようです。
ちなみにここに書いたことの日本語版は前の投稿「ひとつ分かったぞ」がそれにあたります。
翻訳ではないので内容に差異があります。同じ人物の頭の中にある同じ思いが別々の言語で表現されるとき、どれだけ類似性があるか(あるいは無いか)という非常にくだらない実験です。
こんなことブログでやらないで家で勝手にやっていればいいのですが、なんとなくブログに載せてみたくて。
これに対するボク自身の考察は次回に投稿します。
忙しくて今時間がないので、、、だったら最初からやめればいいのに、、、
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