37. Songs For Economic Free-Fall (New Model Army, Pink Floyd, Ten Years After, Simon and Garfunkel, Casey Bill Weldon, and Frank Zappa)

"My Country" ( -- a song
by
New Model Army)

Tell all
the People
who believe
what they read
in the Press!

Tell all the Folk
who stare
from
behind Suburban walls!

The "Enemy"
is not some nation
far across the sea!

The "Enemy"
is with us
every single,
breathing day!

So YES --
I will "fight" for my Country --
the land that I love so well!

YES - -
for JUSTICE --
a land
fit for all our futures!
YES,
I will "fight" for my Country --
the land that I love so well!

Hear the voices
of our History
echo all around!

"Fight" all the ones
who divide us:
Rich against Poor!

"Fight" all the ones
who divide us:
White against Black!

"Fight" all the powers
who want
their missiles
in our earth!

"Fight" all the people
who would lead us into War!

No Rights were ever given to us
by the grace of God!

No Rights were ever given
by some United Nations clause!

No Rights were ever given
by some "Nice Guy" at the top!

Our Rights --
they were
bought
by all the Blood,
and all the Tears
of all our
Grandmothers,
and
Grandfathers
before.

For all the Folk
who gave their lives for us.

For all the Folk
who spit out : “Never say die!”
For all the fires
burning on our highest hills!

For all the People
spinning tales tonight.

"Fight" all the Powers
who would abuse our Common Laws!

"Fight" all the Powers
who think they only owe themselves!

So, YES!!

I will "fight" for my Country --
the land that I love so well!

YES -- for JUSTICE --
a land fit for all our futures!
YES,
I will "fight"  for my Country --
the land that I love so well!

Hear the voices
of our History
echo all around!

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[Hear the song at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnmg-k1BR6U ]

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"Money"
( -- a song by
Pink Floyd)

Money --
get away!

Get a good Job
with more Pay,
and you're OK.

Money --
it's a gas!

Grab that Cash
with both hands,
and make a stash!

New Car,
Caviar,
Four-Star
Daydream --
think
I'll buy me
a football team!

Money --
get back!

I'm alright, Jack --
keep your hands off
my stack!

Money--
it's a hit!

Don't give me
that
"Do Goody-Good"
bullshit!

I'm in
the Hi-Fidelity
First Class
"travelling set",
and I think
I need a Lear jet!

Money --
it's a Crime!

Share it fairly,
but don't take a slice
of my pie!

Money --
so they say,
is
"The Root of all Evil
today.

But, if you ask for a raise,
it's no surprise
that
they're giving none away!

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[Find the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_anbEJsr6s ]

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"I'd Love
to Change
the World"
( -- a song
by
Ten Years After)

Everywhere
is:
"Freaks",
and
"Hairies",
"Dykes",
and
"Fairies" --
tell me,
"Where is Sanity?"

Tax the Rich!

Feed the Poor!

'Til
there are
no Rich,
no more!

I'd love to change the world,
but, I don't know what to do,
so I'll leave it up to you.

Population --
keeps on breeding --
Nation bleeding --
still more feeding!

"Economy!"

Life is funny --

skies are sunny --
bees make honey --
who needs Money?

"Monopoly!"

I'd love to change the world,
but, I don't know what to do,
so I'll leave it up to you.

World Pollution --
there's no "Solution"!

"Institution!"

"Electrocution!"

Just:
"Black and White"!

"Rich or Poor"!

"Them and Us"!

STOP THE WAR!!

I'd love to change the world,
but, I don't know what to do,
so I'll leave it up to you.

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[Hear the song at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvj99sK1Gl0 ]

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"Bleeker Street"
( -- a song
by
Paul Simon)

Fog's
rollin' in
off
the East River bank;
like
a shroud
it covers
Bleeker Street,
fills the alleys
where
men sleep;
hides
the Shepherd
from
"the sheep".

Voices
leaking
from
a sad cafe;
smiling faces --
try to understand!

I saw
a shadow
touch
a shadow's hand --
on
Bleeker Street!

A Poet
reads
his crooked rhyme:
"Holy, holy"
is
his Sacrament.

"Thirty dollars"
pays your rent --
on Bleeker Street!

I heard
a Church bell
softly chime,
in
a melody
sustaining.

It's
a long road
to
Caanan,
on Bleeker Street,
Bleeker Street.

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[Hear the song at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98pbT-ok3s  ]

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"W.P.A. Blues"
(-- a song
sung by
Casey Bill Weldon,
ca.1936)

(W.P.A. =
U.S. President
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's
"Works Progress
Administration"
of
the Depression Era)

Everybody's
working
in this town --
and
it's worrying me,
night and day!

Everybody's
working
in this town --
and
it's worrying me,
night and day!

Yes,
that's me,
working too --
I have to work
for
the W.P.A.!

Well, well --
the Landlord
come this morning,
and
he knocked on my door.

He asked me
if I weren't going
to pay my Rent
no more.

He said,
"You have to move --
if you can't pay!"

And then
he turned,
and he
walked
slowly away!

So I have to try!
-- or find some
other place to stay!

That
House-wrecking Crew's
coming
-- ! --
from
the W.P.A.!

Well, well --
I went to the Relief station,
and
I didn't have a cent.

They said,
"Stay on
where you stand --
you don't have to
pay no Rent."

So when
I got back home,
they was tacking
a Notice
on the door:
"THIS HOUSE
IS CONDEMNED --
and
YOU CAN'T
LIVE HERE
NO MORE!"

So,
a notion struck me:
I'd best be
"on my way"!

They're going
to
tear my house down --
ooo-wooo --
that crew
from the W.P.A.!

Well, well --
I went out
the next morning,
and
put a lock
on my door --.
as though
I would move --
but
I have no place to go!

The Real Estate
people,
they all done
got so --
they don't rent to
no "Relief clients"
no more!

So I know --
I'll have to
walk the streets
night and day!

Because
that Wrecking Crew's
coming --
ooo-woo --
from that W.P.A.!

Well, well --
a notion struck me:
I'd try to stay
a day or two.

But I soon found out
that
that wouldn't do!

Early
the next morning
while I was
laying in my bed,
I heard
a mighty rumbling --
and BRICKS come
tumbling
down on my head!

So --
I had to start
"ducking and dodging",
and be
"on my way"!

They was
tearing my house down
on me --
ooo-woo --
that crew
from that W.P.A.!

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[Hear the song at: http://uncensoredhistoryoftheblues.purplebeech.com/2008/10/show-38-wpa-blues.html ]

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"Trouble
Every Day"
(-- a song
by
Frank Zappa)

Well,

I'm about to get upset
from watchin' my TV!

Been checkin' out
"the News"
until my eyeballs
fail to see!

I mean,

they say
that every day
is just another
rotten Mess!

And

when it's gonna change,
my friends,
is

anybody's guess.

So

I'm watchin'
and I'm waitin' --
I’m hopin'
for the best!
 
Even think
I'll go to prayin'
every time I hear 'em
sayin'
that
there's no way
to delay
that
Trouble
comin'
every day!
 
No way
to delay
that trouble
comin'
every day!
 
Wednesday
I watched the riot;
I seen the cops
out on the street;
watched 'em
throwin'
rocks and stuff,
and chokin'
in the heat.

Listened to reports

about the whisky
passin' 'round;
seen
the smoke and fire --
and the Market
burnin' down!

Watched

while everybody
on his street
would take a turn
to stomp
and smash
and bash
and crash
and slash
and bust
and burn.
 
And I'm
Watchin'
and I'm
Waitin' --
I’m
Hopin'
for the best!

Even

think
I'll go to
Prayin'
every time
I hear 'em sayin'
that
there's no way
to delay
that Trouble
comin'
every day!
 
No way
to delay
that Trouble
comin'
every day!

Well

you can "Cool It!",
you can "Heat It!" --
 'Cause,
baby --
I don't need it!

Take

your TV tube
and
"Eat It!"

'N all that

phony stuff
on "Sports",
'n' all those
"unconfirmed reports"!

You know

I watched that
rotten box
until my head
began to hurt,
from checkin' out
the way
the Newsmen
say they
"Get the Dirt!"

BEFORE

the guys
on
Channel so-and-so.
 
And --
further,
they assert
that
any show
they'll interrupt
to bring you
NEWS
if it
comes up.

They say that
if the place
blows up
they'll be the First
to Tell,
because
the Boys they got
Downtown
are workin' hard
and doin' swell.

And

"If anybody
gets the News
BEFORE
it hits
the Street...",
they say that
"No One
blabs it
faster!

Their coverage

can't be beat!

And if another

woman driver
gets
machine-gunned
from her seat,
they'll send
some Joker
with a
"Brownie",
and
"You'll See It All --
COMPLETE!

So

I'm Watchin'
and
I'm Waitin' --
I’m Hopin'
for the best!
 
Even think
I'll go to Prayin'
every time
I hear 'em sayin'
that
there's no way
to delay
that Trouble
comin'
every day!

No way

to delay
that Trouble
comin'
every day.

Hey --

You know something,
people?

I'm not Black,

but
there's a whole lots
of times
I wish
I could say
"I'm not White"!

Well,

I’ve seen
the fires Burnin',
and the
Local People
turnin'
on the Merchants
and the Shops
who used to
sell their Brooms
and Mops,
and
every other
Household Item.

Watched

the Mob
just turn
and
bite 'em!

And they say

"It served 'em
Right!
 
("...because
 a few of them
are White!")

And

it's "the same"
across the Nation:
Black and White
Discrimination!

They're yellin':

"You can't
Understand Me!”
 
And
all the other
Crap
they hand me!
 
In the Papers
and TV;
'n' all that
MASS STUPIDITY
that
seems to
GROW
more
every day!
 
Each time
you hear
some
Nitwit
say
he
wants to go
and
"Do you in"
because
the color
of
your skin
just
don't appeal
to him!

No matter

if it's
Black
or
White --
because
he's
"Out for Blood"
tonight!
 
You know
we gotta
sit around
at home
and
watch
this thing
begin,
but I'll bet
there won't
be many
left
to see it
really
End.

'Cause
the Fire
in the Street
ain't like
the Fire
in
my Heart!

And

in the eyes
of all these People,
don't you know
that this
could START
on
ANY Street,
in
ANY Town,
in
ANY State,
if
ANY "Clown"
decides that
"NOW'S
THE TIME
TO FIGHT"
for some
Ideal
he thinks
is Right.

And,
if

a million more
agree,
there ain't no
"Great Society"
as it
applies
to you and me!
 
Our Country
isn't Free!

And

the Law
REFUSES
TO SEE!

If

all that
you can
EVER BE
is
just
a lousy "Janitor" --
UNLESS
your Uncle
owns a store!

You know that

five
in every
four
just
won’t
"amount to"
nothin'
more!
 
They
watch
the rats
go
across
the floor,
and
make up
Songs
about
being
Poor!

Blow

your
Harmonica,
son!

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[Hear the song at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOOUYQXqFAQ&feature=related ]

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28. Money DOES NOT Insure Creativity in the Workplace -- a PBS NEWSHOUR report by Paul Solman

What Drives Motivation in the Modern Workplace?
 
Transcript from the
PBS NEWSHOUR
 
ANALYSIS
 
AIR DATE:
April 15, 2010
 
SUMMARY

As part of his ongoing coverage

making sense of financial news,
business and economics correspondent
Paul Solman
reports on what drives people's behavior
in the modern workplace.
 
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PAUL SOLMAN:
The candle,
box of tacks,
book of matches --
an old puzzle
with a strangely relevant
economic message.
 
Objective?
 
Fix the lit candle
to the wall
so no wax hits the table.
 
Economics:
The faster you do it,
the more money you make.
 
Punchline:
Conventional economics is wrong,
because the greater the monetary incentive,
the longer the solution takes --
a solution you will see in a bit.
 
Relevance?
 
Executive pay
and Wall Street bonuses,
which might not enhance,
but actually retard
"High Performance",
or so says writer
Dan Pink,
once Al Gore's
chief speechwriter.
 
Pink's first book,
"A Whole New Mind,"
made waves
by arguing that skills
linked to the
creative right side of our brains
dominate
today's global economy,
instead of
left hemisphere thinking.
 
DANIEL PINK, author,"Drive":
Logical,
linear,
sequential,
analytical,
SAT abilities,
spreadsheet abilities,
and today those abilities are essential  --
but they're not enough.
 
And it's now
abilities characteristic
of the right hemisphere:
artistry,
empathy,
inventiveness,
big-picture thinking.
 
And that's changed
the game of business, too,
because what it's done is,
it's put a premium
on coming up with
something new,
profoundly new,
iterating something
the world didn't know
it was missing.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Pink's new book, "Drive,"
takes the next step:
You motivate right brain creativity
with more human,
less material
incentives.
 
DANIEL PINK:
We tend to think that
the way you get people
 to perform at a high level is,
you reward
what you want
and punish
what you don't want --
"carrot and stick".
 
If you do this,
then you get that.
 
That turns out,
the science says,
to be an extraordinarily effective way
of motivating people
for those routine tasks,
simple,
straightforward,
where there's a right answer.
 
They end up being
a terrible form
for motivating people
to do creative conceptual tasks.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
How does the science show this?
 
DANIEL PINK:
If you offer me a reward,
$500 reward,
you have my attention,
absolutely.
 
A contingent reward
gets you to
focus like this --
narrow vision.
 
If the answer
is right in front of you --
that's terrific.
 
You race a lot faster.
 
But if you have this kind of vision
for a creative conceptual problem,
you're going to blow it.
 
You're not going to do anything good.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Now, before you economists out there
click to some stock market channel,
a bit more
of the candle experiment,
run in the '60s
by psychologist
Sam Glucksberg.
 
He offered $5,
(maybe 50 bucks in today's money),
to those who solved it faster than most people,
but $20,
($200 today),
for the fastest time of all.
 
With eyes on the prize
and time of the essence,
many folks melted the side of the candle
and tried to stick it to the wall --
a quick way,
it turned out,
to watch your hopes melt.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Meanwhile,
Dan Pink took us to
Hunt Valley, Maryland,
to show us
non-material incentives in action.
 
MAURY WEINSTEIN, CEO, System Source:
Welcome to our Computer Museum.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Maury Weinstein has been
marketing personal computers
since their debut in 1981.
 
MAURY WEINSTEIN:
The original IBM P.C...
 
DANIEL PINK:
Oh, man!
 
MAURY WEINSTEIN:
... with two floppy drives.
 
Behind us,
the Commodore PET
was very interesting
because it had the lift-up hood.
 
DANIEL PINK:
So,
it was easy to service.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Is this "the Lisa" or this...?
 
MAURY WEINSTEIN:
This is the original Macintosh.
 
"Lisa" is right next door.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
The trip down RAM memory lane
reminded us that,
in the high-tech era,
computer sellers have come and gone
as fast as the hardware they have peddled.
 
Yet, this firm,
System Source,
has grown for three decades,
a key reason, says the CEO,
the decision to drop sales commissions 15 years ago.
 
He explains,
with a hint of Karl Marx.
 
MAURY WEINSTEIN:
We find that money often disrupts relationships.
 
It disrupts customer efforts.
 
And, sometimes,
it makes the customer feel like a piece of meat,
where you can't trust
the salesperson's recommendations.
 
And that's a very slippery slope
at that point.
 
MAN:
This is Jason calling from System Source P.C.s.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Weinstein says
sales spurted 44 percent
as soon as commissions were canned
in 1994.
 
Profitability rose threefold.
 
Ed Johnakin,
a system source salesman for 17 years,
says commissions have a downside.
 
ED JOHNAKIN, Salesman, System Source:
Some salespeople
may push customers into things
that they might not necessarily need.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Did you ever do that?
 
ED JOHNAKIN:
No, no, no, no!
[they laugh!]
 
ED JOHNAKIN:
Yes,
maybe once or twice.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
So, no commission,
no incentive to sell stuff
customers might be
better off without.
 
Salesman John Burke.
 
JOHN BURKE, Salesman, System Source:
I'm not looking to strike it rich
or hit a pot of gold
with one deal and then move on.
 
I'm looking to foster
a long-term relationship with a customer.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
But were we perhaps seeing
System Source
through "Pink"-colored glasses?
 
DANIEL PINK:
I think System Source
is fundamentally an early adopter
for a very new approach to business,
which basically says that
people have other motivations
besides grabbing that carrot,
that they actually want to do good work.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Speaking of good work,
figured out the
candle answer yet?
 
With dollar signs in their eyes
and the clock ticking in their heads,
some folks
tack the candle
to the wall.
 
That falls flat --
no surprise, though,
to Swarthmore psychologist
Barry Schwartz,
who's studied motivation for decades.
 
BARRY SCHWARTZ, psychologist, Swarthmore College:
Money isn't a natural part of anything we do.
 
It's not a part of practicing medicine.
 
You know,
the natural thing to practicing medicine
is healing people.
 
Getting paid for it
is unnatural,
similarly with law
and with any profession,
teaching.
 
So, maybe what happens is
that what money does is,
it disconnects people
from the real point
and purpose
of their activity.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Case in point,
Wall Street bonuses,
which,
Schwartz insists,
fueled the crash.
 
BARRY SCHWARTZ:
It created in people who ran these companies
unbelievable "short term-ism",
because all that mattered
was making the company look good
for the next quarter
or the next year,
so that they would get a huge bonus
in the form of stock options,
which they would then cash in.
 
And what the consequence was
for the company five years down the road
was of no concern to them --
a disaster.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Now, if cash incentives don't even work
for salespeople,
says Dan Pink,
think how useless they are
in a "right brain world".
 
Consider Wikipedia,
the world's largest source
of free information
or the free Web browser
Firefox,
open-source projects
created and developed
by users for no pay at all.
 
And why would labor
the world over
work for free?
 
SERGE KNYSTAUTAS, open-sourcer:
I think by contributing to open-source communities,
you can get some gratification
and praise
and really give yourself a sense of purpose.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
We gathered a group
of open-sourcers in Washington.
 
CELESTE LYN PAUL, Open-Sourcer:
You're working with people that you like.
 
You're doing things that you love to do.
 
And it's just very fulfilling.
 
So, money isn't the only reason
why somebody might want
to contribute to it.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
You're describing a world
that sounds like a marketplace,
but it just doesn't have any money in it.
 
JOHN YODSNUKIS, Open-Sourcer:
You know,
you need adequate compensation.
 
You have to live.
 
You have to survive, OK?
 
But, if you ask an artist why they became an artist,
a lot of them will say,
I can't do anything else.
 
I have to do this.
 
It's the same thing here,
you know?
 
It's the fulfillment,
the love of doing it
is reason enough.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Yes, admits Pink,
people need enough dollars to survive.
 
Most of these folks
have day jobs.
 
But, after that,
humans want autonomy,
a sense of purpose,
mastery.
 
DANIEL PINK:
We do things because they're interesting.
 
We do things because we like them.
 
We do things because we get better at them,
because they contribute to the world,
even if they don't have a payoff
in getting a reward
or satisfying some -- some biological drive.
 
This is not a plea for a kinder,
gentler approach to business.
 
This is a plea for saying,
let's wake up!
 
Let's get past our outdated assumptions,
and let's actually run businesses in concert
with what the science shows
about human performance.
 
PAUL SOLMAN:
Which brings us back to our experiment,
one of many over the years
that have come to the same conclusion --
128 people took part
in the original candle experiment.
 
Those offered money
averaged 11 minutes to solve it.
 
But it turned out that,
counter to the predictions of classical economics,
those people offered no money at all
discovered the solution much faster:
tacking the box
to the wall,
to hold the candle
and catch any dripping wax.
 
They did it in an average
of just seven-and-a-half minutes,
instead of 11,
and, thus,
the punchline of this story
and Dan Pink's new book:
To succeed in today's global economy,
it's the fire within
that must be lit.
 
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Found online at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june10/makingsense_04-15.html#
 
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