a ditadura dos sorrisos

ouvi dizer que há de alguns anos para cá uma ditadura de sorrisos se apoderou dos EUA. Desacraliza-se o local de trabalho e a relação patrão empregador com boa disposição e retirando o senhor doutor à relação. O mais importante fica lá, que é a relação encoberta com sorrisos de chefe para empregado. Somos todos bons rapazes, por isso para quê sindicalizarmo-nos e entrarmos em guerras laborais quando o trabalho é já quase a nossa família e o patrão um compincha? Os sindicatos, o associativismo saiu de moda, porque é chato ir a plenários, aturar os broncos dos camaradas e pia fora. No entanto, o poder de despedir é mais do que nunca intocável. O poder de subir rendas de casa sem apelo nem agravo é cada vez mais indiscutível. O poder dos horários de 45, 50 ou 60 horas semanais é uma evidência. É óbvio que depois de trabalhar tanto ninguém tem paciência para ir ao sindicato, ainda para mais falar mal do chefe, que até é um porreiro. Nada disto está conforme com a modernidade ou pós-pós-modernidade e com a sua vida limpa e a cores. E no entanto... não vou julgar o Francisco Lopes só porque ele tem cara de mau. vou esperar para ver.

PS a nossa vida não é limpa

Akerlof's paper uses the market for used cars as an example of the problem of quality uncertainty. A used car is one in which ownership is transferred from one person to another, after a period of use by its first owner and its inevitable wear and tear. There are good used cars ("cherries") and defective used cars ("lemons"), normally as a consequence of several non-always-traceable variables such as the owner's driving style, quality and frequency of maintenance and accident history. Due to the fact that many important mechanical parts and other innards are hidden from view and not easily accessible for inspection, the buyer of a car does not know beforehand whether it is a cherry or a lemon. So the buyer's best guess for a given car is that the car is of average quality; accordingly, he/she will be willing to pay for it only the price of a car of known average quality. This means that the owner of a carefully-maintained, never-abused, good used car will be unable to get a high enough price to make selling that car worthwhile.

Therefore, owners of good cars will not place their cars on the used car market. The withdrawal of good cars reduces the average quality of cars on the market, causing buyers to revise downward their expectations for any given car. This, in turn, motivates the owners of moderately good cars not to sell, and so on. The result is that a market in which there is asymmetrical information with respect to quality shows characteristics similar to those described by Gresham's Law: the bad drives out the good (although Gresham's Law applies to a different situation).

"Lemon market" effects have also been noted in other markets, such as used computers[citation needed] . There are also parallels in the insurance market, where, unless those least likely to need insurance (i.e., those least likely to get in accidents) are forced to buy insurance, it is those most likely to need insurance compensation who tend most to buy insurance, eliminating the advantage of diffusing risk that insurance is supposed to provide (adverse selection).
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da wikidedia

compreender que todos somos hóspedes uns dos outros

...como alguem dizia

vou tentar responder em números

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