For Whom The Cash Register Rings
[QUOTE=Rock Dog].... I hereby move that the previous line of discussion be considered dead and buried and forgotten for all time. Surely someone has something relevant to say. Relevant ....Rock[/QUOTE]Rock:
Dammit man, I was trying to get my leg over Mmbmmb. Surely that is the ultimate relevancy of this forum!! :-)
Onwards.
One thing that struck me , and I think with the authors that Jelly discussed amply demonstrated, that perhaps we are simply being too erudite.
There is an immutable law in nature called The Golden Rule. (He who has the gold rules.) Now, in old legal circles "He" covers all genders. So, is the problem not simply a case of economics. Look at our board. The countries where we males have the most fun tend to have the lower GDP and a poor distribution of income. So, as you go up the GDP scale the women have more money (without the aid of the court system yet) so they now have the gold as well! We end up with an problem. The result is that they then have an "elevated" sense of the worth of their goods, that is beyond what the market will now pay. Impasse. This is amply demonstrated in the way they "sell" their wares; a different , complex and completely obnoxious manner to us simple folk (men) who want a straightforward transaction. And American women have the highest disposable income of any other society.
Could it be this simple? Economics?
Polvo