On the subject of the TED video, I wasn't surprised about how intrinsic motivations beat monetary motivations. However; I was very surprised to learn how much better it is to have money as an inducement. The motivation should be intrinsic with money as just an inducement. The difference between motivation and inducement is that the motivation is the main persuader in whether or not someone wants to do something. The extra money is there just to help and I think more businesses and jobs need to try and run this model for getting hard working employees.

1. Patternicity could be used in order to cause deceit when telling a causal story. One could bring up a false correlation and say it is the fault of the bank in order to sway the opinion of the polis. I'm sure that during the next presidential campaign the Republicans will blame Obama for situations that he had no hand in. However, patternicity says that the people will want a pattern to follow and someone to blame so they are more inclined to accept the Republicans' statement.

I think that economic growth cannot be a goal because the only purpose of a good economy is to fuel things like health and culture. The only thing you can do with more money is to spend it on Rosling's other goals that he listed. And to have a society with high human rights and culture, I think that it is only possible to do with money. Things like culture arise from free time and arts but one needs money to be able to reach that status. I feel that he got the Economic part of his "Dimensions of Development" exactly correct but I think that more of the goals should go toward health and the prolonging of human life.