Why Hate Robs Society of Opportunities? A case for broad based development.

Eight portrait heads of Socrates,

illustration to Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy". 1789

We talk a lot in this society about improving our competitiveness and you will hear people discuss economic theories with great painstaking detail. However, they seem to miss some important key underlining aspects of building a great society. We must do more to maximize our human capital and that is increasingly unlikely the more we free pass hate. Those who bring us together do so because they see the greater need to preserve and grow our central core values as guides to a growing societal system. There will be those who will exploit the good of diversity for the bad of self gain. Hate behavior is goal directed.

Consider this interesting article in Foreign Affairs Hate Speech on Social Media: Global Comparisons. 

It discusses how hate speech can be somewhat destructive to society and that is more acceptable in some societies than others. However, hate speech also signals societal class positions/value and that in turn creates divisions that block opportunities. This is why hate speech as a devaluing and dehumanizing aspect to it. That is not a problem for those who benefit from such speech but it is a long term problem for society when large swaths of people are signaled they will have limited rolls in society and no matter what they do it won't lead to a positive outcome. To me, I want the best and brightest from all backgrounds to build a country. The picture is bigger then self interest or childish false anchoring of one's inherent value (Republican or Democrat).  

(Even if one was a bigot they might see the longer term logic in ensuring the whole system functions at its best so as to secure their own best interest. The problem with blind hate is that it is short sighted and often emotional in nature as a projection of one's own inadequacies. I know your thinking I'm projecting and perhaps your right. Yet I accept my inadequacies of my inadequacies and feel that I'm still a descent person so it doesn't really matter much. 😱 Heap on the inadequacies and I will learn from them. Yaaa. I got it like that and that came from decades of learning. I think over that time I became more puzzled and amazed by human behavior. 💁 I know that I don't know much. Feel free to click off from my drooling and rambling.) 

When we create intentional signals of class difference we also begin to see the long-term impact of such divisions on overall performance (i.e. not having higher GDP growth or perhaps larger amounts of people on public assistance to make ends meet with declining wages and lost economic footing. Let us not get into the discussion on inflation and declining value of the dollar. Both lead to chronic deficits because resources are not maximized. While one may do all types of governmental top-down things to correct, nothing is going to work better then universalizing the environment to maximize development and motivational entrepreneurial effort as fundamentals of capitalism and democracy. Think about what capitalism is in terms of effort and democracy is for individual empowerment.). If there is one thing the U.S. can maximize is its diversity. It is a relatively untapped resource that is cheap. It only requires us to have a change of heart as a society to our shared futures. That will require moving beyond old paradigms of racial/religious rhetoric utilized by all sides of the debate to one in which we seek to maximize the best out of people through shared commitment to principles (i.e. we all work toward our shared best interest. Racial and religious differences don't matter in that. Broad based opportunities for those who strive no matter what sector of society they came from. Easier said then done..) 

In other words, we have to create the right environment for maximum human capital development. Think deeply about whether we are creating that right environment and whether we could do more to be more competitive. Take a systems macro perspective all different kinds of people in society and what most people are likely to agree. That would be a somewhat universal perception of value that moves beyond the shallowness of individual race and religion (I have great respect for religion and think their underlining values contribute to our society and ethical understandings. I want to learn from them all. I like to think of them as philosophies of perfection. I'm an open minded person. I also like lots of non religious philosophers as well. I like to learn from our historical best and brightest minds. ).

(As a side point. You can be proud of your race and religion without being rude or disrespectful of others. For example, I'm proud of my two mixed kids. They can be proud white men or proud black men. Makes no difference to me. What I want them to do is find that which they feel best represent them and anchor to our values as a family. It doesn't need to be exclusive of one or the other. Give honor to the past and their ancestors who became a piece of them. I try and teach them of what I know of both and I have asked relatives on their mother's side to share their history with them. I believe as a conservative that diversity is good for us as a people from a moral, social and scientific perspective.

 It might not be far fetched to say that diversity creates evolutionary adaptability which creates resilience as a species, people, and nation. Maybe, one would have to look up diversity and species health to see if that would be true on a macro scale. I came across this article. I think the smaller the population the more diversity is important for health. However, we are going through a lot of environmental changes so diversity probably does more good then anything else. What Is Genetic Diversity and Why Does it Matter? Seems sort of plausible anyway. Ladies and gents....intermingle.😂)

Review this article in the Economist, Prioritizing people: human capital moves to the core of responsible, sustainable business strategies

The article discusses how inclusion creates higher firm profits. There are other studies that support the same concepts. It is just hard to sell that our next stage of development is a universal democracy where all people of different backgrounds are respected for the quality of their character and their societal merit as defined through their behavior (not their wealth, social status, race, religion, gender, etc.. )A truer merit system.

As a person who has been a target of hate and has seen systems wobble/default and have looked at the issue for a long time I have come to find that we are not maximizing our human capital assets to the best of our abilities. The environmental and institutional signals are sometimes off and not conducive to full motivational broad based development. We have an untapped human capital source that can be used to revive our nation through the motivation of shared mutual focus and developmental interests.

(I have two kids that have so much potential but because of their mixed skin color I do not believe they will ever have the same opportunities as many other kids. In a very honest way, I don't see them getting as many opportunities because not everything is the way it should be. I wish I could say different but the current truth is they will need to work 2X harder than others. They also had more things taken from them than given so that is what it is.  We talk a lot about diversity but at the end of the day there is the official diversity and then their is the social diversity. Its the subtle social side of things that often causes the most problems. So, I'm thinking about how we maximize our human capital through broad based development that has the greatest impact among our broadly diverse society. I don't have a solution, I'm only thinking about it. That is more than others efforts.)