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High living may be giving method to a time of frugality
This week, news that Christian Laboutin -- designer of his famous red-soled heels-- is at Dublin, along with the opening from the movie "Sex in the City' working in london,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], helped me think,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], why do women wear high heels?
I've been intrigued by women's passion for high- heeled shoes. So why do a lot of totally rational,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], intelligent women become illogical and unstable at the sight of the pair of Jimmy Choos? Much more intriguing is why do women wear high heels at all? It should be hellish to be cantilevered at a most unusual angle by shoes that appear to be as though they're designed to hurt instead of to wear.
Like a typical man with a cowardly low pain threshold, I am consistently surprised about what women will put themselves through on the Saturday night. It's not uncommon to hear our wives or girlfriends say such things as, "I hope the restaurant's not far coz my feet are killing me".
Why would anyone, willingly, wear a pair of shoes that hurt? We're not talking about a frustrating rubbing sensation here. Orthopedic surgeons regularly refer to the fact that constant wearing of 'killer' heels can lead to joint,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], feet and back problems.
Yet women keep putting themselves through the pain barrier, why? One easy reason is that taller people get laid more. Humans value height, we discover it attractive and therefore, women in heels may be fancied then those who work in flats. Also, men like what high heel shoes caused by a ladies shape: by forcing girls to arch their backs, high heels push their boobs and bum out, accentuatingthe positives.
Apparently, this is all Darwinian, within the sense that people like each other to look healthy, fertile and fit because when we are looking for a mate, we want that mate to be as healthy as you possibly can in order to have children. So it's easy to understand why women in heels have an immediate advantage over those without. Unfortunately, any advantage that heels can confer will be eliminated if all women wear high heel shoes. When everyone gets heels, women suffer to not stand out but simply to keep up!
Now think about the 'high heels' dilemma in a greater context. The 'keeping up' conundrum affects nearly every consumption decision we make. Among the best places to see this process -- which US economist Robert Frank likens for an 'arms race' in his new book, 'The Economic Naturalist' -- is to take into account the makeover of the Irish kitchen.
In recent years, even though our families have grown to be smaller, Irish kitchens have grown to be colossal. Irish kitchens are actually on steroids, bulked up, pushed out and over-extended. Throughout the boom, because stamp duty made moving house and trading up prohibitive for many, people centered on upgrading their existing houses by having an explosion in extensions.
A fascinating recent phenomenon has been the emergence of 'the island'. When we were kids, an island would be a geological occurrence, like Lambay or Achill. Today, a tropical is really a stand-alone sink and hob in the middle of those new giant kitchens. But like high heels, it is only an excellent advantage if no one else has an island. When islands become the norm, the relative advantage and also the feel good factor related to them diminishes. Once this happens, people driving to interrupt away from the herd will pitch for something else,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like, for instance, a carp pond!
But carp pond envy will set in earlier than they believe and, in no time, vast swathes of suburban Ireland will become the place to find all classes of exotic fish. Interestingly, the exotic fish craze is not that unusual. In ancient Rome, at the height of the Republic's powers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wealthy Romans became obsessed with exotic fish collections.
Apparently, the kind of fish you kept said something about the type of person you had been. Unfortunately, all go the same way of the high heels; all advantages are condemned to be destroyed by others trying to keep up.
This may explain why so many studies reveal that when countries get richer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the societies don't seem to get happier. The 'high heels' conundrum has got the better of all of us. The data reveals that for poor countries like Ireland within the 1980s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], increases in income make people much happier. This really is pretty clear to see: should you never had a car and you get one, the joy of traveling around in which you want and when you would like instead of waiting for public transit to take you to definitely a particular place in a specific time, makes you happy. Now that you've got a car, the extra happiness you get out of having a better car falls. It is the simple concept of having an excessive amount of the best thing.
The main reason all of this matters is that for most people in wealthy countries, the 'high heels' conundrum means they are working harder and longer but do not appear to become any happier. So why shall we be doing it? Why do we keep up these appearances and follow the corporate jungle?
The slowing economy gives us a chance to reassess the values of the society we have created. When things be a tiny bit less frenetic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], maybe we will start looking at happiness, instead of possessions or output per head for that basis where to judge whether the society is successful of not.
Such a duration of reflection might also be forced here by events. It's not necessary to be considered a genius to determine that Ireland's boom was facilitated through the three Cs -- cheap money, cheap energy and cheap labour (within the guise of immigrants). The very first two Cs have now disappeared and the third one seems to be leaving of their own accord.
Without these cheap resources, the concept that the rich world can continue to grow and grow doesn't stack up. We're confronted with a Malthusian proposition in which the demands of the ever-increasing world human population are smashing in to the reality of finite resources, making the very idea of limitless spending almost immoral.
Consequently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we might be on the cusp of a value alternation in the civilized world, where frugality might become the new extravagance. A larger appreciation of the environmental inconsistencies facing us might cause overspending to be viewed distastefully, like overeating. Such neo-puritanism could easily take hold as the 'high heels' dilemma gets to be more obvious to everyone. Maybe the lesson in the 'high heels' conundrum is: one set of Manolos good, 30 pairs bad.
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