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One of the important lessons they teach at the Donald J Trump Soviet training center in Leningrad is the importance of understanding human behavior and how to manipulate behavior. Back in the Soviet days, when the stores had nothing to sell, managing expectations was very important.<\/p>\n

People would instinctively join any line with no idea what the purpose of the line was. Billions of person-hours were wasted waiting in lines to buy goods that didn’t exist instead of spending the time making goods.<\/p>\n

Kiasu is the same irrational behavior that occurs in Singapore. Singapore was a British colony similar to Hong Kong. Singapore is situated on an island and connected by bridges to the mainland of Malaysia. Kiasu was a consequence of Japanese occupations during World War II. “They just drove over the causeway and that was that”. It somewhat mirrors the behavior of people who lived through the Depression dong irrational things 40 years later like collecting used aluminum foil.<\/p>\n

After the war, Singapore struggled to find its role – no natural resources and too many people on too little land. Most everything people needed had to go over the bridges, which meant chronic insecurity about consumer goods. After fending off Islam from Malaysia and Communism from China, they settled into being a global banking center and global trading center. People jump in lines not because there is a shortage of anything, but an innate sense of self centered greed that has been carefully cultivated by the culture.<\/p>\n

So I’ve concluded that this is why people will queue in line in a drive thru – you see the same thing in Disney World\/Land, at least in the good old days. Once in a line, people become invested with the time they already spent in line, only to round a corner to find yet another 30 minutes of line. People block the aisle in a shopping center for 5 minutes to get “that” parking space which is only 5 steps closer to the front door.<\/p>\n

Today, while killing time playing Pok\u00e9mon in between Starbucks and a Sprint cellular store (both sponsor pok\u00e9stops), I decided to whip out a stopwatch to see how long people were waiting to avoid walking 20 steps to go inside. The answer was 15 minutes, and the line was shorter today.<\/p>\n

Radio applies a similar “scientific” principle to measure how many commercials in a row they can play before you tune out. Four minutes into commercials, you hope maybe this is the last one, so you cling to hope. Eventually people wise up, and they don’t just leave today, they unplug and don’t come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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