How Does Goal Displacement Affect Society

There is a widespread concern about rising levels of debt. Debt can become disastrous for those who live alone or those families who are already having problems with supporting their family. The people who might be struck by debt, they might have trouble recovering. Debt can cause Americans to lose their homes and stability they need to feed, and shelter their families. Although debt comes upon us Americans quickly, people can see debt as terrible thing to be stuck with. It has many disadvantages that can devastate to people.

Debt does not come across most people’s minds when it comes down to making them happy. According to Juliet Schor people will put themselves in thousands of dollars in debt till they make themselves happy and get everything they want to fit in with society. families in New York are making $600,000 a year and claim they are not making enough to live in that environment, society are putting themselves in so much debt they are worried about bouncing their checks.

Many people view the United States as a country of opportunity in which you can live happily and be presented the opportunity to achieve any goals that you may have, regardless of your class or financial status. This idea is helped made possible by our government. But our government might not be able to provide as much help to that dream if we keep going deeper into debt. In my opinion we need to fund all of these assistance programs less in America so the rest of us can grow and force other to take responsibility and grow up

Giving the people the idea that overcoming the debt issues that they were enduring would soon be

The average debt per citizen in America is $63,056. This gargantuan amount of debt can be attributed to one desiring what one does not need. In the novel, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless believed these unnecessary desires were selfish outlooks towards life. Moreover, he thought that one should live deliberately, meaning one should strategically plan on how one uses his or her money and resources. “Less Stuff More Happiness” a TED Talk by Graham Hill, “Seeing” from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard and Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer all pertain to the idea of living deliberately. Chris lived deliberately by having a giving spirit, by cutting out the extraneous, and by declining financial help from others.

Living in debt has become the norm for most U.S citizens, with nearly 80% of the population in some kind of financial dilemma. Even the national government is trillions of dollars in debt, and the main cause is spending money we don't have. If everyone would stop using credit cards, taking out huge loans, and buying houses that they really can't afford, the economy might slowly regenerate. Many people don't understand how fast debt can build up and how much interest rates can increase that debt. Yes, life would be a lot more difficult for many people if they could only use money they actually have instead of paying it back later and adding on debt, but sometimes change is needed. No matter how difficult this change may be to implement, it may

While many Americans today have a very weak will to work hard or improve themselves, a strong motivating force—such as debt—would surely encourage the nation as a whole to become more productive. On the one hand, Americans today are lazier than ever: only a small percentage works more than twenty hours a day. On the other hand, the debt-driven American will push himself or herself to pay off his debts, in order to prevent his home from being repossessed, becoming determined to work daily twenty-five hour shifts. The debtor also will develop a new sense of priority in order to further fuel his motivation for hard, debt-paying work. Just as the physically unfit will cut sweets, carbohydrates, and food altogether from his or her diet, the debtor will cut such things as medical insurance, electricity, indoor plumbing, and even a home in order to be able to spend more time working to meet minimum monthly payments . After all, like the “more than 600,000 homes [that] entered some stage of foreclosure” (Foreclosures), debtors without homes are able to spend more time working, don’t have to pay the bills, and don’t have to pay property taxes, encouraging them to work even harder to pay off their debts. How productive this power of debt can be is illustrated when “a [five-year-old girl’s mother trafficked the child to pay off a drug debt” (Netter). If a woman can be so motivated by debt that she would sell her own

My own financial health resonates well with the above quote from Daly and Farley, not because I’ve thought about money, but because I know nothing about it. As a young student still breaking ties from home, I have to navigate the intricate world credit, lease contracts, financial aid, and investments seemingly to no avail. In his chapter titled “Enough Debt,” Dietz alludes to this complex world that is the American financial system that I and every other American are currently dealing with. With any complex system, there are misconceptions tied to it that can provide a simpler understanding to those analyzing it. Dietz provides three of the most prevalent misconceptions, how their true function actually debunks them, and then systemic changes

The financial inequality between the middle class and the wealthy is becoming more prominent. The student loan debt forgiveness is one big step in the right direction, but we are going to need to see the average wages increase in order to have that hope again. We need to learn to live within our means, and how to save for retirement. We are probably never see the United States debt free for a long time. It is really hard for people to get out of debt when the United States of America can not even be debt free, because if we try to raise taxes it will just hurt the middle class even more. I think we should raise the taxes on the wealthy class. I feel like that is the easiest way to get out of national debt without really hurting

organizational goals may be frustrated. (Young, D., p.127) This is the case with almost everyone

Forty five million americans live in poverty and seem to not be able to get free of debt. Most people are not able to get ahead financially because of the lack of education. And this makes people have to get a job that will typically pay minimum wage. Even with an education of some college degree people are in behind financially because of student debt.

Setting goals is always a plus, but setting goals that are not possible could set the organization up for failure. The Boston Beer Company had a goal of being the best in the United States, and through hard work and dedication, met that goal

Edwin Locke and Gary Latham will be the first ones to openly admit there are active limitations with the goal setting theory. It is not uncommon for individual goals to conflict with organizational goals. Moreover, research has proven complex goals have sparked motivation in teams to implement strategies with substantially high amounts of risk (Knight, Durham, & Locke, 2001). Sometimes people will believe higher risk strategies produce the greatest returns, yet high-risk goals consistently result in failure as well (Knight et. al, 2001). Additionally, when individuals simultaneously create two goals there is a greater chance they exert too much energy and focus on achieving just one of those goals. This can lead to one of the goals not receiving enough attention, which can potentially result in the person failing to reach the end result in either goal. In short, these are three common limitations of goal setting that typically draw concerns from other researchers and theorists. However, it is important people are aware of the limitations that do not receive as much attention, such as team goal setting, unethical behavior in high performance goals, and subconscious goals.

“The Goal” is a book written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in 1984. The book is very famous in the management field. In 2004, the author published the third revision of it and celebrated selling over than three million copied of it around the world. Also, the goal book is taught in over than 120 collages. The book was recommended by my professor to be read and summarize as an extra credit.

However I have learned that goals and objectives of an organization are in continuous change and they suffer from a lack of adaptation, “our problems” evolve and we fail to perceive the subtle and not so subtle changes as well as not adjusting accordingly to the drift in direction (inertia).