A few days ago I was in a building tools store where I was seeking a set of wrenches to buy. When I found it, I happened to notice a caption on a package -- "Made in Great Britain". "That's what we've come down to", -- I thought joylessly, continuing to seek a spirit level that I needed. "Where is it made?", -- I wondered when I located it at a store. "Ontario, Canada??! Is it really that in the biggest country in the whole world -- the country where the first satellite was ever launched -- there isn't any enterprise able to make such a simple tool as a spirit level? Is it really need to carry it across the Atlantic?" When I get out of a shop it happened to me to thought about the origin of the economic growth.
I'm not pretend to write an economic inquiry that fits rigorous requirements of a scientific paper. Essentially, the idea I've come to is very simple. In fact, the origin of the economic growth of any country, any nation in any age lays is ability to make good things. Period. Now let's consider that simple fact in more detail.
If you think of the history of human kind you'll notice that the history of our development is the history of appearance of new things. It doesn't matter how complex they were -- so complex as a first steam engine, an airplane, a car, a NASA space shuttle, a first nuclear power station, a telegraph, a computer, a first fiber-optic cable ans so on -- or so simple as a ball-point pen, a wheel or a sail. To make creating of new things possible there are must be suitable system of education, work ethics, and, in the higher stages of social development -- science, technologies and industrial culture. All of these conditions are not valuable for themselves -- they're valuable as the necessary conditions to invent and produce new good things. And those new things are intended to serve people! New things make life more comfortable, increase work efficiency and as a result free time for leisure, education, culture, religion and, finally, for more rich spiritual life.
The more different and good things are -- the more national welfare is. And, on the contrary, the less different and good things are -- the less national welfare is. If there is no many good things that are being constantly created there is no education, no culture, no science. And, in this case, such unlucky nation is going to be a banana republic. At this point let me remind you a set of wrenches made in the UK. So, does it mean we aren't able to make such a simple tool? Yes, it does unfortunately. And does it mean we're losing our industrial culture, work ethics and science? Yes, it does again. So why and when did it happen?
New things are being invented by engineers and created by workers in enterprises. To produce them the society must have an appropriate educational system and culture, encouraging young men to be ones. There must be a conventional system of views saying that to be and engineer and worker is good. Lawyers aren't able to make new things; and managers... and shop assistants... and bank clerks... but our education system produces them a lot, and our ethics encourages young men to be managers, bank clerks, lawyers and so on. Because in Russia to be an engineer is to work hard and to earn little money but to be a lawyer is to work far less and to earn a lot of money. But, let me say you, that a lawyers and managers will never create national welfare. Never. They're only able to consume things, not to produce. To consume things that are made in the United States, for instance. By the way, how about the USA? In fact, they are able to produce almost everything needed to modern society. Even if their enterprises are located in China they are American indeed because they use an American equipment and American technologies. But we, Russian people, at the same time aren't able to make just a wrench. Are you still despise the US? Excuse me, what did you say? You have the fridge that is made in Russia? It is "Indesit"? Oh, come on.... Just answer who built the enterprise where you fridge was made. Italians, Germans -- actually it doesn't matter because they definitely aren't Russians.
The ability to produce good things is the measure of national welfare and self-sufficiency of nation. Finally it leads to reach, well-educated society where poverty is rarity and people enjoy life. There is no need to fight with poverty but there is need to learn how to produce good quality things. And this ability leads to the economic growth. Mining and oil extraction doesn't lead to it -- despite the money they can bring. Even if our gross national product, the GNP is increasing inflated by oil incomes it doesn't actually mean that we have the economic growth. As for me, the economic growth will begin when I'll find just a good wrench in a building tools store with a caption "Made in Russia".
I'm not pretend to write an economic inquiry that fits rigorous requirements of a scientific paper. Essentially, the idea I've come to is very simple. In fact, the origin of the economic growth of any country, any nation in any age lays is ability to make good things. Period. Now let's consider that simple fact in more detail.
If you think of the history of human kind you'll notice that the history of our development is the history of appearance of new things. It doesn't matter how complex they were -- so complex as a first steam engine, an airplane, a car, a NASA space shuttle, a first nuclear power station, a telegraph, a computer, a first fiber-optic cable ans so on -- or so simple as a ball-point pen, a wheel or a sail. To make creating of new things possible there are must be suitable system of education, work ethics, and, in the higher stages of social development -- science, technologies and industrial culture. All of these conditions are not valuable for themselves -- they're valuable as the necessary conditions to invent and produce new good things. And those new things are intended to serve people! New things make life more comfortable, increase work efficiency and as a result free time for leisure, education, culture, religion and, finally, for more rich spiritual life.
The more different and good things are -- the more national welfare is. And, on the contrary, the less different and good things are -- the less national welfare is. If there is no many good things that are being constantly created there is no education, no culture, no science. And, in this case, such unlucky nation is going to be a banana republic. At this point let me remind you a set of wrenches made in the UK. So, does it mean we aren't able to make such a simple tool? Yes, it does unfortunately. And does it mean we're losing our industrial culture, work ethics and science? Yes, it does again. So why and when did it happen?
New things are being invented by engineers and created by workers in enterprises. To produce them the society must have an appropriate educational system and culture, encouraging young men to be ones. There must be a conventional system of views saying that to be and engineer and worker is good. Lawyers aren't able to make new things; and managers... and shop assistants... and bank clerks... but our education system produces them a lot, and our ethics encourages young men to be managers, bank clerks, lawyers and so on. Because in Russia to be an engineer is to work hard and to earn little money but to be a lawyer is to work far less and to earn a lot of money. But, let me say you, that a lawyers and managers will never create national welfare. Never. They're only able to consume things, not to produce. To consume things that are made in the United States, for instance. By the way, how about the USA? In fact, they are able to produce almost everything needed to modern society. Even if their enterprises are located in China they are American indeed because they use an American equipment and American technologies. But we, Russian people, at the same time aren't able to make just a wrench. Are you still despise the US? Excuse me, what did you say? You have the fridge that is made in Russia? It is "Indesit"? Oh, come on.... Just answer who built the enterprise where you fridge was made. Italians, Germans -- actually it doesn't matter because they definitely aren't Russians.
The ability to produce good things is the measure of national welfare and self-sufficiency of nation. Finally it leads to reach, well-educated society where poverty is rarity and people enjoy life. There is no need to fight with poverty but there is need to learn how to produce good quality things. And this ability leads to the economic growth. Mining and oil extraction doesn't lead to it -- despite the money they can bring. Even if our gross national product, the GNP is increasing inflated by oil incomes it doesn't actually mean that we have the economic growth. As for me, the economic growth will begin when I'll find just a good wrench in a building tools store with a caption "Made in Russia".
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