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Self-interest, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Most Important, But We Have Many Other Motives - Honesty, Self-respect, Altruism, Love, Sympathy, Faith, Sense Of Duty, Solidarity, Loyalty, Public-spiritedness, Patriotism, And So On - That Are Sometimes Even More Important Than Self-seeking As The Driver Of Our Behaviors.

Rich Countries Have 'kicked Away The Ladder' By Forcing Free-market, Free-trade Policies On Poor Countries. Already Established Countries Do Not Want More Competitors Emerging Through The Nationalistic Policies They Themselves Successfully Used In The Past.

Assume The Worst About People And You Get The Worst.

Gore Vidal, The American Writer, Once Described The American Economic System As 'free Enterprise For The Poor And Socialism For The Rich'. Macroeconomic Policy On The Global Scale Is A Bit Like That. It Is Keynesianism For The Rich Countries And Monetarism For The Poor.

The Higher Education System In These Countries (us, Korea Etc) Has Become Like A Theatre In Which Some People Decided To Stand To Get A Better View, Promoting The Others Behind Them To Stand. Once Enough People Stand, Everyone Has To Stand, Which Means No One Is Getting A Better View, While Everyone Has Become More Uncomfortable.