Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Similarly, American ingenuity has produced a standard of living and a political stability that are the envy of the world. The result is that Americans—as well as most Europeans—see no reason to work long hours at cheap wages. And who can blame them? But much of the rest of the world is eager to toil hard in undesirable conditions. As a result, productive activity increasingly shifts into the hands of people who have the lowest expectations. When was the last time that you wore clothes made in the USA? Or used domestic TV or video equipment? The reason why the number of immigrants keeps growing is that they are the only ones left willing to do menial jobs. But even engineers and technically trained workers are steadily getting scarcer in the industrialized