{"id":85,"date":"2007-04-20T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Liako.Biz\/2007\/04\/people-are-like-two-year-old-babies\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:23:41","slug":"people-think-like-two-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/people-think-like-two-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"People think like two-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1) Property ownership is one of the central tenets of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>2) At work, I am involved in a special assignment. Throughout the initiative, I&#8217;ve caused a lot of friction with various groups because it was perceived that I was infringing on their &#8220;territory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3) Myspace allows users to customise their profile however they want. And people do.<\/p>\n<p>4) My two-year old niece is going though a stage where everything is &#8220;hers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>5) Capitalism works better than any other economic system;  my firm is very successful as an organisation; Myspace is a run-away hit; my niece is a happy baby.<\/p>\n<p>Notice a trend?  The only difference between you and a toddler is that you don&#8217;t say &#8220;mine&#8221; every time someone takes your toy. Want to get peoples&#8217; support or to buy your product? Then remember this: property and giving people a sense of ownership is how us humans work. We take comfort in what we can control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few thoughts: 1) Property ownership is one of the central tenets of capitalism. 2) At work, I am involved in a special assignment. Throughout the initiative, I&#8217;ve caused a lot of friction with various groups because it was perceived that I was infringing on their &#8220;territory&#8221;. 3) Myspace allows users to customise their profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,410,181,246,263,268,287,288],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-nature","tag-capitalism","tag-human-nature","tag-humans","tag-myspace","tag-ownership","tag-people","tag-property","tag-psychology","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}