{"id":2165,"date":"2010-10-31T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2010-10-31T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:45:58","slug":"why-wealthier-is-healthier-and-regulation-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/why-wealthier-is-healthier-and-regulation-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wealthier is Healthier and Regulation Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I mentioned to Barry that the trick-or-treaters would probably start arriving today at about 3 p.m., due to a rash of “safety” stories from the media.<\/p>\n

Then as we made dinner together, listening to the local radio station, the evening DJ signed off by saying, “Be safe this Halloween… above all, be safe!”<\/p>\n

(Judging by the weather forecast, he would have been more helpful by saying, “Stay dry!”)<\/p>\n

But the radio station, like many TV shows, is into fear mongering<\/strong> in the guise of being helpful…<\/p>\n

Then, as we switched on the TV for some dinner-time entertainment and conversation, we landed on one of our favorite common-sense commentators’ shows: Stossel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Host John Stossel has worked in the media for a long time, so he understands how it works. I used to like watching him on 20\/20, but his own show is even better.<\/p>\n

The episode we landed on was about, “coincidentally” (or not), Media Scare Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we tuned it in, Stossel was showing us a little girl who was NOT safe on Halloween… she found a needle in one of her mini Snickers bars.<\/p>\n

Scary, yes — especially if it happens to your child.<\/p>\n

And of course the local TV station will cover it. It’s unusual, which makes it newsworthy, and it’s a public service to remind parents to supervise Halloween activities.<\/p>\n

But the very reason it’s newsworthy — that it’s VERY rare — is exactly why it’s not something you need to FOCUS on or be paranoid about<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After all, if you like simplistic little sound bites, remember what many personal development teachers say: “What you focus on expands.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read Stossel’s synopsis of the whole story on his blog post here<\/a>; but these are my thoughts on it (with some additional research), as a former mainstream media host and anchor myself:<\/p>\n

The media loves to cover stories of “bad” things that happen, for the reasons I outlined above.<\/p>\n

But they fail to acknowledge publicly that what they’re covering is really only being covered because it’s so rare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

By covering a plane crash, and implying it could happen to you, they cause many people to decide just to drive where they’re going… but according to the National Transportation Safety Board<\/a>, highway fatalities account for over 94% of transportation deaths.<\/p>\n

Over 100 people die each year in plane crashes, but over 100 people die each DAY<\/span> in car crashes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So since driving kills many, many more people than flying, the media is actually putting people in danger by covering the plane crash the way they do.<\/p>\n

Even more thought-provoking than that, Stossel points out that poverty is, in fact, far more dangerous than any of these things.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

Well, think about it: “Poor people drive older cars with older tires\u2026 they buy less fresh fruit\u2026 etc. Wealthier\u2026 is healthier,” Stossel explains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Let’s follow his argument one step further, and we’ll see that media scare tactics stop entrepreneurs (like us, and maybe you) from operating to their full potential.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“And so when Americans spend time and money obsessing about small stuff like plane crashes and even terrorism, we kill people. The obsessing quickly becomes political activism, which leads to more regulation and rules that make it harder to open a business, or to run a business. When businesses don\u2019t open, or are regulated to death, America is a little poorer,” Stossel says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And that brings me to a video Barry found the other day, which perfectly illustrates and wraps up this whole argument:<\/p>\n

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Wow! Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Maybe even scary? Well… Happy Halloween! Boo!<\/p>\n

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