Comments on: #158 – Psychology, Economics, and Learning Communities http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2008/06/12/158-psychology-economics-and-learning-communities/ All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Suzy http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2008/06/12/158-psychology-economics-and-learning-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Suzy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:28:12 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=249#comment-748 I really enjoyed this interview, it was the first time I started to understand the concept of "money", Dr Warmoth explained this very abstract concept so clearly. I was even more interested because this last Christmas one of my parents friends who is a retired sociology professor was having an in depth conversation with me at the dinner table about the concept of wealth and how wealth is created. In essence there are only two ways to create "real" wealth the first being a countries raw materials which they can sell, or they can take can take the raw material and turn into something else that has greater value than the raw material ( i.e work). The professor was explaining to me that America was in real trouble because they were not creating real wealth, while China is flourishing because of the labour they provide. As I was listening to the interview I was thinking to myself about how Dr Warmoth represented to be what a true academic is. Someone with vision who studies all sorts of different ideas with a genuine curiosity. I have become quite disgusted with academics myself and can't wait for the day when I can be done with research. Initially I was really excited by research but I have not had very much success and I find ( at least in applied sciences) everything must have a financial motivation behind the research. The amount of people claiming their research will be able to have some application towards cancer or diabetes is astonishing. I find this all amusing too because history has shown us that almost all the big breakthroughs happen serendipitously. Sorry I digresss, but it was rather refreshing to listen to someone llike Dr Warmoth (and yourself) and I hope they are not a dying breed. I really enjoyed this interview, it was the first time I started to understand the concept of “money”, Dr Warmoth explained this very abstract concept so clearly. I was even more interested because this last Christmas one of my parents friends who is a retired sociology professor was having an in depth conversation with me at the dinner table about the concept of wealth and how wealth is created. In essence there are only two ways to create “real” wealth the first being a countries raw materials which they can sell, or they can take can take the raw material and turn into something else that has greater value than the raw material ( i.e work). The professor was explaining to me that America was in real trouble because they were not creating real wealth, while China is flourishing because of the labour they provide.

As I was listening to the interview I was thinking to myself about how Dr Warmoth represented to be what a true academic is. Someone with vision who studies all sorts of different ideas with a genuine curiosity. I have become quite disgusted with academics myself and can’t wait for the day when I can be done with research. Initially I was really excited by research but I have not had very much success and I find ( at least in applied sciences) everything must have a financial motivation behind the research. The amount of people claiming their research will be able to have some application towards cancer or diabetes is astonishing. I find this all amusing too because history has shown us that almost all the big breakthroughs happen serendipitously. Sorry I digresss, but it was rather refreshing to listen to someone llike Dr Warmoth (and yourself) and I hope they are not a dying breed.

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