It is specious to boast that it should be exported widely, even within Europe Germanyy's combination of wealth, wage discipline and post-war obsession with consensus is pretty unusual.
A person's elite status and fit body may, in fact, have arisen from destructive behavior--like insider trading and bulimia--or just some lucky inheritance, but the visual spectacle of affluent healthism declares, "I earned my wealth through discipline, self-sacrifice, and hard work, just like I earned this body".
In this he is in accord with mainstream economic thinking, famously articulated by Nobel Prize winners Franco Modigliani and Milton Friedman, that people spend newfound wealth in disciplined increments so it lasts a lifetime.
As Democrats have begun to realize, traditional conservative themes like fiscal discipline, wealth creation and individual freedom are also up for grabs.
They've brought a wealth of business discipline and insight that benefited the company and me personally.
Business, technology and wealth news: Boeing Disciplines 6 In Lockheed Document Probe.
Hindu gods and goddesses are the patrons of knowledge, wealth, and artistic disciplines.
How did a Swiss bank whose core business is the staid discipline of wealth management come so spectacularly to lose $38 billion betting on American mortgage-backed assets, battering its core capital and share price (see chart)? "It's breathtaking," says the head of investment banking at another European bank.
Business, technology and wealth news: NYSE To Discipline Market Makers.
That's despite data showing outcomes for white Americans are better in terms of life expectancy, school discipline policies, wealth and in situations involving police.
