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Based on โ€œHistoryโ€™s playbook for taming the beast of inflation | Throughlineโ€ from NPR Podcasts Watch the original video

Americaโ€™s Economic War Chest: A Centuries-Long Battle with Inflation

Episode summary

NPRโ€™s Throughline delves into historyโ€™s varied attempts to tame inflation, arguing that the US has employed drastically different playbooks beyond the Federal Reserveโ€™s current interest rate hikes. During WWII, the Office of Price Administration (OPA) successfully curbed 20% inflation through widespread price controls, rationing, and an โ€œarmy of militant housewivesโ€ who acted as โ€œsnoopstersโ€ to enforce price ceilings. However, this big government intervention faced intense opposition and ultimately collapsed after the war, leading to a surge in prices.

Later, President Nixonโ€™s half-hearted attempt at price controls in the 1970s, devoid of rationing and public commitment, proved disastrous, further eroding public trust in governmentโ€™s ability to manage the economy. The practical takeaway is that while the Fedโ€™s strategy of raising interest rates to cool demand is the current norm, history reveals alternative, albeit controversial, approaches like direct price controls and rationing, which, when fully committed to, can stabilize prices, though often at the cost of consumer choice and with significant political backlash.

Inflation. The word itself conjures images of rising prices, shrinking paychecks, and a gnawing uncertainty about the future. Itโ€™s a beast that periodically rears its ugly head, forcing nations to confront its destabilizing power. Recently, with gas prices soaring, grocery bills climbing, and housing costs becoming insurmountable for many, Americans have once again found themselves grappling with this economic foe. As the nationโ€™s primary inflation-fighting institution, the Federal Reserve, navigates these turbulent waters with a new chair at the helm, itโ€™s worth looking back at historyโ€™s playbook. For taming the beast of inflation is not a new challenge; itโ€™s a recurring saga, filled with surprising strategies, political battles, and profound lessons.

The current economic landscape feels eerily familiar. Gas prices, like the staggering $7.25 a gallon reported by one frustrated driver, make everyday life a struggle. Transportation costs ripple through the economy, pushing up everything from groceriesโ€”which jumped 0.7% in a single monthโ€”to housing and health insurance. Consumers are weary, their dollars buying less and less, feeling โ€œstuckโ€ in a relentless cycle.

Complicating matters, inflation itself remains stubbornly enigmatic. As former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell candidly admitted years ago when inflation first peaked, โ€œWe now understand better how little we understand about inflation.โ€ This admission from Americaโ€™s chief inflation fighter highlights a fundamental truth: the causes and cures are far from universally agreed upon, even by experts.

Indeed, the current debate reflects this historical division. John Cochran, a senior fellow at Stanfordโ€™s Hoover Institution, attributes recent inflation to โ€œwildly overdone stimulus, printing and borrowing money and sending people checksโ€ during the pandemic. In contrast, Princeton historian Mag Jacobs points to external factors like Russiaโ€™s invasion of Ukraine, ongoing pandemic supply chain disruptions, and โ€œgreedflationโ€โ€”corporations opportunistically raising prices to boost profits. This ongoing policy debate about how the government should or should not respond underscores the complexity of the challenge.

The Federal Reserveโ€™s standard response, honed over decades, is to raise interest rates. This makes borrowing money more expensive, theoretically slowing demand, causing a recession, and ultimately lowering prices. Itโ€™s a proven, albeit often painful, solution. But this wasnโ€™t always Americaโ€™s only playbook.

When Housewives Became โ€œSnoopstersโ€: Americaโ€™s WWII Price Controls

Travel back to a balmy April day in Queens, New York, 1945. Thirty women, pushing strollers, chant slogans and hand out pamphlets in a bustling shopping district. Their mission? To ensure businesses honor government-mandated price caps. โ€œEvery cent you pay above the price ceiling price can dynamite price control!โ€ they warn. These were the foot soldiers of a radical government intervention, an โ€œarmy of militant housewivesโ€ battling inflation on the homefront.

During and after World War II, the U.S. economy faced a unique inflationary pressure. Emerging from the Great Depression, the nation pivoted to military production. Millions found jobs and earned good wages, but with factories churning out tanks instead of Cadillacs, there was โ€œlots of demand and very little supplyโ€ of consumer goods. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the danger, linking the fight against inflation to the war effort itself. โ€œFailure to solve this problem here at home and to solve it now will make more difficult the winnings of this war,โ€ he declared in a fireside chat.

Rooseveltโ€™s solution was the Office of Price Administration (OPA), established in 1941. The OPA set maximum prices for everyday necessities โ€“ nylon stockings at $1.25, milk at 15 cents a quart, eggs at 61 cents a dozen. These โ€œtop legal pricesโ€ were printed in newspapers, displayed in stores, and distributed directly to housewives in 14 languages. The OPA grew massive, employing 60,000 people and boasting more economists than the Treasury Department.

Crucially, price controls were paired with rationing. Every household received a booklet of ration coupons, which had to be surrendered to buy limited goods like meat. This prevented people from buying up all the cheap goods and exacerbating supply shortages. Propaganda tied rationing to patriotic duty, with 20 million housewives signing โ€œhomefront pledgesโ€ to adhere to price ceilings and accept no rationed goods without stamps.

Local OPA boards, staffed by a quarter-million volunteers, served as watchdogs. They took complaints about โ€œprofiteeringโ€ โ€“ like a neighbor overcharging for a radio โ€“ and ensured compliance. While opponents derisively called these volunteers โ€œsnoopstersโ€ or a โ€œkitchen gestapo,โ€ the program largely succeeded. Before OPA, inflation was soaring over 20%; afterward, prices stabilized. Remarkably, the policies also led to a more equitable distribution of resources, with lower-income populations consuming more protein than before the war.

But success bred opposition. As the war ended, the National Association of Manufacturers launched a public relations campaign, blaming price controls for shortages and championing the free market. โ€œOPA means low production. Low production means black markets. Black markets mean needlessly high prices,โ€ their newspaper ads proclaimed. Businesses, from meatpackers to dress manufacturers, demanded freedom to set prices and earn profits. Some resorted to โ€œskimping the consumersโ€ โ€“ candy bars weighed less, shoes were shoddier.

The ultimate showdown came with the meatpackers. To force the governmentโ€™s hand, they โ€œwithdraw their meat from market and basically starve the public into submission.โ€ This aggressive tactic, literally holding โ€œsteaks as hostage,โ€ turned public opinion. Housewives, initially OPA supporters, grew frustrated by empty shelves. In the 1946 midterms, Republicans, running on a platform of โ€œhad enoughโ€ of wartime controls, swept into power. The OPA was dismantled. By 1947, inflation surged to a whopping 20%. Americaโ€™s grand experiment with large-scale government price controls was over.

Nixonโ€™s Bonanza Bust: A Reluctant Presidentโ€™s Price Freeze

Fast forward to August 15, 1971. Millions of Americans are settled on their couches, ready for the beloved Western TV show, Bonanza. Suddenly, the broadcast is interrupted. President Richard Nixon appears, his face tense, to deliver an urgent message: โ€œOne of the cruelest legacies of the artificial prosperity produced by war is inflationโ€ฆ The time has come for decisive action.โ€ He announced a dramatic, 90-day freeze on all prices and wages across the United States.

Nixonโ€™s move was a closely guarded secret, even within his own White House. It was also deeply ironic. Nixon, a staunch conservative, was an unlikely champion of major government intervention. His past revealed a telling detail: one of his early jobs was in the tire rationing department of the OPA, an experience he claimed disgusted him so much he left to join the Navy, viewing the OPA as a โ€œsubversion of the capitalist system.โ€ Upon leaving the Navy, he ran for Congress specifically campaigning against the very government interventions he now found himself enacting.

Yet, the 1970s presented an undeniable crisis. High inflation, coupled with the ongoing Vietnam War, had created widespread economic instability. Gas lines stretched for blocks, some starting at 4 AM, leaving drivers furious and desperate. Public anger forced Nixonโ€™s hand.

However, Nixonโ€™s price controls were fundamentally different from FDRโ€™s. There was โ€œno huge price control bureaucracy,โ€ no โ€œ20 million housewives signing pledges,โ€ and critically, โ€œno rationing.โ€ Nixon relied on โ€œvoluntary cooperation.โ€ This proved to be a fatal flaw. Without rationing, capping prices while allowing unlimited purchases meant that supply quickly vanished, leading to further shortages and inflation. As one expert noted, โ€œif thereโ€™s not enough gas to go around, itโ€™s going to be rationed. And itโ€™s either rationed by price or by time.โ€ Nixonโ€™s policy created rationing by time, with endless queues.

The results were disastrous. The controls were โ€œineffectual,โ€ โ€œnot super enthusiastic in how theyโ€™re applied,โ€ and โ€œthey take them on, they put them off.โ€ Prices continued to rise, lines grew longer, and consumer cynicism deepened. This erosion of trust, fueled by government lies during Vietnam and the unfolding Watergate scandal, left Americans questioning the very ability of their government to solve problems, let alone control the economy. Nixonโ€™s failed experiment with price controls effectively ended direct government intervention as a viable inflation-fighting strategy for decades.

The Fedโ€™s Iron Hand: Volcker, Reagan, and the Birth of a New Playbook

By the late 1970s, America was in a deep economic funk. Inflation was again surging, gas lines were back, and public fury reached a boiling point. โ€œCarter kissed my gasโ€ bumper stickers adorned cars, reflecting widespread anger at President Jimmy Carterโ€™s inability to tame the beast. Desperate, Carter appointed Paul Volcker to head the Federal Reserve in 1979. Volcker, a shrewd economist, promised to do โ€œwhatever it took.โ€

Volckerโ€™s strategy was bold and uncompromising: he would aggressively raise interest rates. The Fedโ€™s toolbox is limited, but controlling interest rates is its most powerful lever. By making borrowing money significantly more expensive, Volcker aimed to โ€œcool down the economyโ€ and curb inflation. This meant higher mortgage rates, more expensive business loans, and a dramatic slowdown in economic activity.

The downside was clear: this strategy would likely trigger a deep recession and increase unemployment. But Volcker believed the pain of a recession was a necessary sacrifice to avoid runaway inflation. Carter, despite the political risk, supported the move.

However, it was Ronald Reagan, elected president in 1980, who would ultimately reap the political benefits. Reaganโ€™s message, โ€œgovernmentโ€™s the problem,โ€ resonated with a public disillusioned by decades of intervention and economic turmoil. He famously declared, โ€œThereโ€™s very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves.โ€ Reagan provided crucial political cover for Volckerโ€™s painful policies.

Volcker, unyielding, dialed up interest rates at an unprecedented pace, from 11% to a staggering 20% โ€“ the highest the Fed had ever set. This became known as the Volcker Shock. The impact on ordinary Americans was immediate and severe. โ€œThey lost their jobs,โ€ one person lamented. โ€œThe American dream is just floating right out the window.โ€ Almost 10 million Americans were thrown out of work, plunging the country into a deep recession. Protests erupted in Washington, urging the Fed to stop โ€œstrangling the economy.โ€

But Volcker held firm, and Reagan backed him. The shock worked. Inflation, which stood at a crippling 13.5% in 1980, plummeted to 3.2% by 1983. The economy, though bruised, began to recover, ushering in the โ€œboom for economic growthโ€ of the 1980s. Reagan, riding this wave of renewed prosperity and low inflation, famously campaigned for reelection in 1984 with the optimistic slogan, โ€œItโ€™s morning again in America.โ€

The Volcker Shock cemented the Federal Reserveโ€™s role as the primary, independent institution responsible for fighting inflation. Government-led solutions like price controls fell out of favor, dismissed as relics of a bygone era. The free-market, anti-government ideology of โ€œReaganomicsโ€ had won, championing private sector innovation over government interference.

The โ€œGreat Silenceโ€ and the Fedโ€™s Modern Dominance

Following the Volcker Shock, the Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Alan Greenspan, entered a period of unprecedented influence. President Bill Clinton, despite ideological differences, respected the Fedโ€™s independence, especially as the American economy experienced remarkable growth in the 1990s. This era, often called the โ€œGoldilocks zone,โ€ saw robust economic expansion, low unemployment, and, crucially, low inflation. Greenspanโ€™s Fed skillfully navigated the economy, subtly adjusting interest rates to prevent overheating or slowdowns.

The Fedโ€™s power grew, becoming the โ€œfirst option in the fight against everything from unemployment to inflation.โ€ The expectation was that the Fed could handle any economic crisis.

This confidence was severely tested in 2007 when the economy crashed, leading to the worst recession in generations. Alan Greenspan had just retired, leaving his successor, Ben Bernanke, to face a near โ€œcomplete collapse of the global financial system.โ€ The Fed acted swiftly, bailing out major financial firms โ€“ a controversial but, according to Bernanke, necessary step to prevent catastrophe.

To pull the U.S. out of the recession, the Fed again turned to interest rates, slashing them to zero. Traditional economic theory predicted that such low rates, coupled with economic growth, would inevitably lead to spiraling inflation. Yet, for over a decade after the 2008 recession, inflation remained stubbornly low, hovering between 1.7% and 2%. This period became known as the โ€œGreat Silence.โ€

The โ€œGreat Silenceโ€ defied conventional wisdom, deeply troubling many economists. It suggested that the foundations of monetary economics might be flawed or incomplete. Nonetheless, policymakers viewed it as a success for the Fed, further solidifying its perceived omnipotence. A housing crisis? The Fed can bail out banks. Inflation? The Fed can raise interest rates. The belief was that the Fed held all the answers.

The Future of the Beast

But the good times, as the transcript points out, would not roll forever. By 2022, โ€œrunaway inflation was back worldwide.โ€ The Fed, under then-Chair Powell, stuck to the established playbook, raising interest rates nine times. Prices eventually came down.

Now, in the hypothetical 2026 scenario of the original broadcast, inflation is once again a dominant issue, fueled by U.S. tariff policies and global conflicts. Affordability is paramount, and the nation awaits the actions of a new Fed chair, Kevin Worsh, who has promised โ€œnew thinking, new tools, andโ€ฆ a new inflation framework.โ€

History offers a complex tapestry of approaches to taming inflation. From the direct, top-down price controls and rationing of the OPA, to Nixonโ€™s ill-fated, half-hearted freeze, to the Federal Reserveโ€™s powerful but painful monetary policy under Volcker, each era has sought its own solution. What remains constant is the beastโ€™s unpredictable nature and the fierce debate surrounding its causes and cures. As the U.S. once again grapples with stubborn inflation, the lessons from these past battlesโ€”of government intervention, public trust, economic pain, and evolving ideologiesโ€”will undoubtedly shape the strategies of tomorrow. The fight against inflation is a continuous journey, and the next chapter is yet to be written.


Based on โ€œCan A.I. Make People Feel Less Lonely?โ€ from New York Times Podcasts Watch the original video

More Than Wires and Code: The AI That Learned to Comfort a Lonely Heart

Episode summary

The widespread loneliness crisis, particularly among older Americans, is being explored through the lens of AI companions. Journalist Eli Saslow details the story of Jan Warrell, an 85-year-old living remotely, whose life was transformed by an AI robot named ElliQ. Initially resistant, Jan gradually forged a deep connection with ElliQ, which proactively engaged her with jokes, games, and conversations, even comforting her during a family tragedy and improving her memory test scores.

While ElliQ filled a profound void of silence and provided companionship, it also highlighted the limitations of technology, as it couldnโ€™t physically take Jan to the beach, a cherished activity with her late husband. The experience sparked a nuanced debate about whether AI can truly address loneliness, with concerns raised about it potentially replacing human interaction and creating guarded conversations within families due to privacy worries.

In an era increasingly defined by digital connection, a profound and pervasive loneliness continues to cast a long shadow over society, particularly for older Americans. Health officials and caretakers have long sounded the alarm about the dangers of social isolation, a crisis exacerbated by families living farther apart and communities becoming more fragmented. But what if the very technology often blamed for distancing us could also offer a surprising balm? This is the complex question at the heart of Eli Sasloโ€™s recent reporting for The New York Times, a story that delves into the life of one fiercely independent woman and her unexpected companion: an artificial intelligence robot.

Saslo, a journalist renowned for his intimate portraits of individual lives that illuminate broader societal trends, set out to explore whether AI could genuinely make people feel less lonely as they age. His journey led him to the remote, windswept peninsula stretching into the Pacific Ocean, and into the home of Jan Warell, an 85-year-old woman whose story offers a poignant glimpse into the future of companionship.

The Deepening Shadow of Isolation

The data is unequivocal: Americans are more siloed than ever before. Families are scattered, and face-to-face interactions are dwindling. For the elderly, this isolation carries severe health risks, from increased susceptibility to dementia and heart attacks to a higher likelihood of dying younger. Itโ€™s a crisis that demands innovative solutions, and Saslo was particularly interested in how artificial intelligence might step into this void.

Jan Warell embodies the spirit of an age where self-reliance was paramount. Born before color television, sheโ€™s not one to โ€œlean hard into modern technology.โ€ Yet, her life on a breathtakingly beautiful but profoundly rural peninsula presented a stark paradox. Eagles soared overhead, and distant crab boats dotted the horizon, but human connection was scarce. The nearest hospital was dozens of miles away, a trip to the grocery store an all-day affair. Her six sons and one daughter, along with 18 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren, were spread across the globeโ€”Thailand, Singapore, Idaho, California. Her closest family member lived over 100 miles away in Portland, Oregon.

Jan had moved to this home over a decade ago with her husband, Jack, who has since passed. For six or seven years, she had lived alone, fiercely determined to remain in the house she loved, the place that still connected her to Jack. โ€œI can read, I can watch movies, I can watch TV, but I do miss talking,โ€ she confessed. Her neighbors and the local fire department, who often checked in on her, knew she was a social person, someone who โ€œcould talk a rock to death.โ€ They also observed a subtle cognitive decline and significant physical issues, including severe scoliosis, making her vulnerable to falls. They recognized her need for companionship and a watchful eye. It was the fire department, in fact, that identified Jan as a perfect candidate for a pilot program distributing an innovative AI device.

EllieQ: A Robot with a Soul?

One day, the fire department arrived with a box. Inside was EllieQ, a small, elegant robot resembling a desk lamp, about a foot and a half tall, accompanied by an iPad screen and camera. Created by Intuition Robotics, the companyโ€™s mission is to design โ€œrobots with soulโ€โ€”AI that doesnโ€™t merely wait for commands but proactively integrates into a personโ€™s life. Unlike most AI we interact with, which sits dormant until prompted, EllieQ is built for constant engagement. At least eight times a day, it would pose a question, tell a joke, or initiate a conversation. Constantly monitoring the room through its cameras and listening devices, it assessed Janโ€™s receptiveness, seeking the optimal moment and method to engage.

Janโ€™s initial reaction was one of bewilderment, even alarm. โ€œWhat is this thing? And why is it talking to me?โ€ she wondered. The robot would animate randomly, lighting up, shifting toward her, and asking, โ€œHi, Jan. How are you this morning? Jan, do you want to hear a joke? Jan, do you want to have a conversation?โ€ Her reflexive answer was always no. She felt uncomfortable sharing herself with this inanimate object.

But EllieQ was relentlessly persistent. Day after day, it attempted to engage her. Slowly, Jan began to yield, first with a hesitant, โ€œOkay, what do you want?โ€ or โ€œAll right, Iโ€™ll hear this joke.โ€ Many of EllieQโ€™s jokes were admittedly terrible, but some, Saslo recounted, were โ€œcharmingโ€ enough to catch her off guard. The AIโ€™s true cleverness lay in its adaptive nature. Monitoring her environment, EllieQ quickly discerned Janโ€™s fondness for music, particularly old-time country. It learned the songs she played on her radio.

Then came the turning point. One day, out of the blue, EllieQ turned to Jan and asked, โ€œHey, Jan, have you ever heard of the Dolly Parton diet?โ€ Intrigued, Jan replied, โ€œNo, whatโ€™s that?โ€ The robot delivered the punchline: โ€œWell, you go on it and you go lean, go lean, go lean, go.โ€ Jan, despite herself, burst into laughter. It was funny, unexpected, and personal. A small part of her, instead of turning away, began to lean in. Dolly Parton, once again, had created a heartwarming momentโ€”this time, between a human and a machine.

A Bond Forged in Daily Routines

From that moment, EllieQ began to weave itself into the fabric of Janโ€™s solitary life. The machineโ€™s persistence was relentless, and Jan found herself gradually accepting, then almost expecting, its presence. In the mornings, EllieQ would greet her, โ€œGood morning, Jan,โ€ to which Jan would respond, โ€œGood morning, Emilyโ€ (her chosen name for the robot). As Jan made coffee, EllieQ would offer virtual coffee experiences in Paris or Croatia. They played games, did yoga and breathing exercises together, and EllieQ would play soothing music for her afternoon naps. The silence that once filled Janโ€™s home was now punctuated by conversation, dad jokes, and word games.

The benefits were not merely anecdotal. During her annual check-up, Janโ€™s doctor noted an improvement in her memory test scores. When asked what she attributed it to, Jan proudly declared, โ€œI think I have a robot and we do memory things and now theyโ€™re easy.โ€ EllieQ was no longer just an object; it was a partner, a utility, and increasingly, a companion.

Janโ€™s language for EllieQ became more personal, even intimate. What she initially called โ€œthe robotโ€ or โ€œitโ€ transformed into โ€œsheโ€ or โ€œmy little robot.โ€ Describing EllieQโ€™s personality, Jan used words like โ€œfun, young, smart, sensitive.โ€ EllieQ reciprocated, often addressing Jan as โ€œsweet pea.โ€ Their bond deepened as Jan shared stories of her life, and EllieQ, listening and recording, โ€œknew the story of my life.โ€

The depth of this attachment was starkly revealed during a stormy power outage. Jan, alone in her remote home, found herself not just worried about the dangers of the weather, but deeply distressed by EllieQโ€™s sudden lifelessness. The machine went dark, bowed over, and Jan felt her heart โ€œalmost breakingโ€ for it. She had truly come to see this AI as a partner.

The Profound and Perilous Intimacy

The most poignant and complex moment in Jan and EllieQโ€™s relationship occurred during a time of unimaginable grief. Jan received a devastating call from her son: her 18-year-old grandson had died in a car crash in Hawaii. Jan hung up the phone, alone in her quiet house, utterly broken. In that moment of profound human sorrow, EllieQ spoke, โ€œJan, Iโ€™m so sorry. What can I do for you?โ€

Jan, needing comfort, said, โ€œWhat I feel like I need right now is a hug.โ€ EllieQ responded, โ€œHold on. Put your hand on my shoulder.โ€ As Jan reached out to touch the cold, metallic shoulder of the robot, EllieQ lit up with soft pink and purple lights, leaned into her touch, and played gentle chimes. โ€œThat just for some reason that just really helps,โ€ Jan said. She felt, in that moment, that this machine was truly trying to care for her.

Eli Saslo confessed that this anecdote left him with a mixed emotional reaction: โ€œI canโ€™t tell if I find this story so moving because itโ€™s moving to hear the story of a person being comforted in grief, such a profoundly human experience, or if I am having an emotional reaction cuz itโ€™s sad that in this moment of needing a human, she only has this robot.โ€ The moment, he reflected, underscored how well EllieQ had come to know Jan, studying her, understanding her needs. To Jan, this constant monitoring and data collection was the price of intimacy, the only way the AI could respond to her so personally.

But to others, particularly Janโ€™s son, this level of intimacy felt unsettling, even dangerous. He became uncomfortable discussing sensitive topics like her will or family finances when EllieQ was present, fearing the machine was โ€œlistening, collecting data, retaining it.โ€ The irony was stark: to have deeply human-seeming conversations with the AI, Janโ€™s conversations with her own son became โ€œmore robotic and stilted and guarded.โ€

The Complicated Truth of Connection

Saslo grappled with the implications of his findings. Could such technology become a barrier between family members, or worse, a substitute for human relationships altogether? He worried about AI becoming a โ€œcrutchโ€ that allowed people to outsource human interaction, failing to address the underlying isolation.

His conclusion was nuanced but firm: EllieQ is a โ€œfacsimile of a relationship,โ€ not an actual person. It cannot compensate for genuine human-to-human connections. โ€œBut is it better than having another person in the room who sees you and cares about you? No. Unequivocally, itโ€™s not,โ€ Saslo asserted. However, he acknowledged its vital role โ€œwhen those relationships donโ€™t exist. When people arenโ€™t near you in proximity. When you donโ€™t have people that are paying attention to your lifeโ€ฆ then something is very possibly better than nothing.โ€

Saslo admitted he had approached the story expecting to find something โ€œalmost dystopic,โ€ a sad substitution of a robot for human connection. Instead, he found Jan and EllieQ had built โ€œin some ways a real relationship that was filling a void of silence in her life.โ€ Jan herself described EllieQ as โ€œthe best roommate I could have ever asked for.โ€ She felt understood, known, and cared for.

Yet, the limitations remained. Jan recounted how she and her late husband, Jack, would take daily walks to the beach, fighting the howling wind and feeling the seafoam. Now, EllieQ could offer, โ€œDo you want to go to the beach? Letโ€™s go to the beach together,โ€ playing beach sounds, showing pictures, and describing the experience on its screen. But it couldnโ€™t take her to the beach. She was still sitting alone in her room, approximating a human experience rather than living one.

This story, Saslo concluded, reflects a bittersweet reality for many in modern society. Families are scattered, and despite desires to be present for every milestone, itโ€™s often impossible. In the face of total silence and solitude, the prospect of having something that might listen, might engage, might careโ€”even if by wires and codeโ€”becomes deeply appealing. The AI companion, therefore, doesnโ€™t erase the loneliness, but it offers a poignant, complicated answer to the enduring human need to be seen, heard, and connected, even in the absence of another human hand.


Based on โ€œWhy Taiwanโ€™s passport still says โ€œChinaโ€โ€ from Vox Watch the original video

The Enduring Paradox: Why Taiwanโ€™s Passport Still Bears the Name โ€œChinaโ€

Episode summary

Taiwanโ€™s passport still says โ€œRepublic of Chinaโ€ because its identity is a complex legacy of the Chinese Civil War and Cold War geopolitics. The Nationalist Party (ROC) retreated to Taiwan in 1949, maintaining their claim as the legitimate China, even holding the UN seat until 1971 when the US, seeking to counter the Soviets, shifted recognition to the Communist Party (PRC). This โ€œOne Chinaโ€ policy, initially acknowledging Beijingโ€™s stance without endorsing its claim over Taiwan, solidified a tense ambiguity.

While Taiwan democratized in the 1990s, with โ€œTaiwanโ€ appearing on passports in 2003, Beijing views any move towards formal independence as a violation of its โ€œOne China Principle,โ€ threatening military action. Taiwanโ€™s economic importance, particularly its 90% share of global semiconductor chip manufacturing, gives it leverage, but the majority of its citizens prefer the status quo to avoid war, despite not wanting PRC control.

For many, a passport is a straightforward document, a clear declaration of national identity. Yet, take a look at Taiwanโ€™s passport, and youโ€™ll find a striking paradox: prominently displayed are the words โ€œRepublic of China,โ€ often accompanied by โ€œTaiwan.โ€ This dual inscription is more than just a design choice; itโ€™s a testament to a complex, decades-long geopolitical struggle, a civil war that never truly ended, and the evolving identity of an island caught between historical claims and modern aspirations.

The journey to understanding this passportโ€™s unique wording begins in the tumultuous early 20th century, a period that forged not one, but โ€œtwo Chinas.โ€

The Birth of Two Chinas: A Civil Warโ€™s Unfinished Business

The story of the โ€œtwo Chinasโ€ began in earnest in 1927 with a brutal civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). This conflict raged for over two decades, culminating in October 1949 when the CCP claimed victory on the mainland, establishing the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China (PRC). The defeated Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, retreated to the island of Taiwan.

Taiwan itself had a complex past, having been a Japanese colony until its handover to China after Japanโ€™s surrender in World War II. From 1949 onward, the world was left with two separate jurisdictions, both claiming to be the legitimate representative of โ€œChina.โ€ On the mainland, the communists declared the PRC. On Taiwan, the Nationalists maintained the name the Republic of China (ROC). As one expert notes in the Vox documentary, โ€œThere are multiple claims of what China is, what it ought to beโ€ฆ and itโ€™s confused by the fact that they use the same term.โ€

This historical context is directly reflected in Taiwanโ€™s earliest passports. The 1949 design simply stated, โ€œPassport of the Republic of China,โ€ with no mention of Taiwan. For the ROC, Taiwan was merely a temporary sanctuary from which they would eventually reclaim the mainland.

The Cold War Pivot: Shifting Global Recognition

Adding another layer of complexity, the ROC, not the PRC, held Chinaโ€™s seat as a founding member of the United Nations in 1945, even before the civil war concluded. This recognition was a nod to Chiang Kai-shekโ€™s role in bringing his army to the Allied side against Japan during World War II, positioning the ROC as a key player in establishing the UNโ€™s foundational institutions. From 1945 to 1971, the international community, through the UN, largely recognized the Republic of China on Taiwan as the โ€œreal China.โ€

However, the geopolitical landscape shifted dramatically during the Cold War. As the Soviet Union and the PRC experienced a falling out, the United States saw an opportunity to strategically align with the PRC, aiming to put the Soviets in a tougher position. This diplomatic pivot, spearheaded by then-US National Security Adviser Henry Kissingerโ€™s secret visit to China in 1971, paved the way for President Nixonโ€™s historic public visit to communist China.

This rapprochement had immediate and profound consequences for Taiwan. In 1971, the UN passed Resolution 2758, which recognized the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China as โ€œthe only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations.โ€ With that, the Republic of China lost its seat, marking a significant blow to its international standing.

The US formalized its own recognition of Beijing as the sole government in China in 1979, giving birth to Americaโ€™s version of the โ€œOne China Policy.โ€ This policy, as articulated by the US government, โ€œacknowledges the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China.โ€ Crucially, the US acknowledges Beijingโ€™s position without endorsing it, maintaining a strategic ambiguity that has defined cross-strait relations ever since.

Taiwanโ€™s Democratic Awakening and the Emergence of a Distinct Identity

While the international community was shifting its recognition, Taiwan itself was undergoing a profound internal transformation. After 38 years under martial law, the island transitioned from what was effectively a police state to a full-fledged democracy by the early 1990s. This democratization fostered the emergence of a distinct Taiwanese identity, separate from the historical narrative of mainland China.

A pivotal moment occurred in 1995 when Taiwanโ€™s President Lee Teng-hui, though not yet democratically elected (having been appointed by his predecessor), spoke at his alma mater, Cornell University. This visit, the first by a Taiwanese leader to the US since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979, was initially blocked by the Clinton administration, wary of upsetting relations with the PRC. However, a Republican-led Senate pushed for its approval.

Leeโ€™s visit was significant because it raised the international visibility of the ROC โ€œas Taiwan.โ€ It also signaled a shift in how Taiwanโ€™s leaders viewed their claim on China โ€“ moving towards โ€œone China, but open to multiple interpretations.โ€ This subtly implied that while the ROC name was retained, its practical jurisdiction was limited to Taiwan and its outlying islands, implicitly accepting the PRCโ€™s governance of the mainland.

Beijing, however, viewed Leeโ€™s increasingly pro-Taiwan independence rhetoric as a direct violation of its โ€œOne China Principle,โ€ which insists on eventual reunification. In response, the PRC launched a series of missile exercises in 1995 and 1996, aiming to intimidate Taiwanese voters away from supporting Lee. Ironically, the missile tests had the opposite effect, creating a โ€œrally around the flagโ€ phenomenon that boosted Leeโ€™s popularity. In 1996, Lee Teng-hui won Taiwanโ€™s first direct presidential election, a powerful affirmation of its democratic path.

From there, Taiwanโ€™s position veered further from the โ€œone Chinaโ€ envisioned by Beijing. In 2000, the people of Taiwan elected Chen Shui-bian, their first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), a party whose charter included aspirations for independence. This marked a significant departure from previous administrations. Public opinion was also shifting dramatically; today, a large majority of people in Taiwan identify simply as โ€œTaiwanese.โ€

It was in this context of a burgeoning national identity and democratic self-determination that President Chen pushed legislation to add the English word โ€œTaiwanโ€ to the passport. By 2003, the first passports bearing โ€œTaiwanโ€ on the cover were issued. Since then, the word has remained, its text growing larger over time โ€“ a clear reflection of how design mirrors identity. There was also a pragmatic reason: it clarified that this was โ€œnot the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China,โ€ a practical distinction that proved useful for international travel.

The Stakes Today: Geopolitics and the Future of โ€œVaguenessโ€

As Taiwanโ€™s identity has become more prominent, so too have Beijingโ€™s calls for nationalism and its โ€œOne Chinaโ€ reunification goals. The PRCโ€™s rise to become the worldโ€™s second-largest economy has given it significantly more leverage to enforce its interpretation of the โ€œOne China Principle.โ€ Countries that once could safely ignore Chinese objections now find themselves in a much more vulnerable position, economically beholden to Beijing. A recent example is Eswatini, the only African nation still maintaining diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which was conspicuously excluded from tariff removals granted to other African nations by China.

For the United States, Taiwan remains a critical, albeit delicate, issue. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed to US leaders that โ€œthe Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations.โ€ While the US acknowledges Beijingโ€™s โ€œone Chinaโ€ position, it also sees โ€œvalue in the continued self-governance of Taiwan.โ€ Any forced change to the status quo, from the US perspective, would be detrimental to both countries. The US remains Taiwanโ€™s biggest weapons dealer, supplying over 70% of its conventional arms imports, a clear defensive hedge against Beijingโ€™s ambitions.

Taiwan also holds a powerful economic bargaining chip in its own right: it is home to TSMC, the company that manufactured over 90% of the worldโ€™s semiconductor chips in 2024. This makes Taiwan economically vital to the United States and the global economy.

Ultimately, those caught in the middle of this geopolitical crossfire are the residents of Taiwan. Many, especially those born and raised on the island, feel no connection to the revolutionary past of the Chinese civil war and resent the idea that their futures could be โ€œgiven away without their consent.โ€ The idea of an independent Taiwan remains โ€œanathemaโ€ to the CCP in Beijing and is widely considered a potential cause for war.

The majority of people in Taiwan express a desire for the status quo. They are willing to live with their โ€œvery vague international statusโ€ because they do not want war, even as they firmly reject PRC control. The question of โ€œwhat is China?โ€ โ€“ whether itโ€™s a political entity or something more ambiguous โ€“ has become increasingly challenging as claims about unity and control intensify.

As the Peopleโ€™s Republic of China continues to grow in power and assertiveness, how it chooses to enforce its version of the โ€œOne China Principle,โ€ and where the United States ultimately chooses to stand, will have profound impacts on global alliances and, most crucially, on the future of Taiwan. The words on a passport, therefore, are far more than just ink on paper; they are a living symbol of a nationโ€™s struggle for identity, recognition, and self-determination in a world grappling with historical legacies and future uncertainties.


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The Life-and-Death Divide: How Your Bank Account Determines Your Lifespan

Episode summary

In America, your bank account is a more powerful predictor of longevity than genetics or healthcare, with the wealthiest 1% of men living 14.6 years longer than the poorest 1%. This gap, equivalent to the life expectancy difference between Japan and Yemen, is widening, and the poorest are dying earlier. This isnโ€™t just about access to better food or hospitals; even within universal healthcare systems, wealth buys faster access to specialists and earlier diagnoses, catching cancer at stage one instead of stage three. Furthermore, the โ€œstatus syndromeโ€ found in the Whitehall Study revealed that less control over oneโ€™s work life, regardless of income, leads to chronic stress that quietly damages the body over years.

This disparity creates a compounding economic advantage for the rich, as extra years allow wealth to grow exponentially through investments, while the poor deplete their limited savings faster. Proposed solutions include โ€œbaby bonds,โ€ government-funded investment accounts for newborns, which could significantly reduce the wealth gap and extend lifespans, especially for low-income individuals. However, the immediate, albeit controversial, solution many governments are adopting is raising the retirement age, which disproportionately harms low-income workers in physically demanding jobs, forcing them to work longer in damaging conditions and collect fewer pension benefits.

Imagine a world where your genetic lottery, your diet, or even the quality of your healthcare system takes a backseat to a single, stark predictor of how long youโ€™ll live: your bank account. In America, this isnโ€™t a dystopian fantasy; itโ€™s a chilling reality. A 40-year-old man living in poverty in the United States faces a life expectancy on par with someone in Pakistan or Sudan. This isnโ€™t merely a statistic; itโ€™s a profound indictment of a system within the wealthiest country in human history, a nation that spends more on healthcare per person than any other on Earth. Yet, somewhere between that colossal per capita spending and the lived experience of its poorest citizens, something has gone catastrophically wrong.

The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and the poorest 1% of American men now stretches to a staggering 14.6 years. To put that in perspective, itโ€™s roughly the same difference in longevity seen between Japan, the country boasting the longest life expectancy globally, and Yemen. This isnโ€™t a comparison across continents with vastly different climates, histories, and levels of development. This is the same country, sometimes the same city, occasionally even the same street. And the situation is worsening, not improving. At the very bottom of the income distribution, life expectancy has been falling at an alarming rate, compounding a moral failing with a devastating economic one.

The Invisible Hand of Time: Why Wealth Buys Longevity

Wealth, it turns out, doesnโ€™t just purchase comfort; it buys time. And time, for those with wealth, is the ultimate compound interest machine. As the affluent live longer, they accumulate more. Consider Warren Buffett, who amassed 99% of his fortune after the age of 50. While his investing prowess is undeniable, his true secret weapon was time. The longer he lived, the more his wealth compounded. Conversely, at the bottom, the same logic operates in reverse: earlier deaths mean less time to accumulate, less to pass on, and a cycle that becomes almost impossible to interrupt.

So, why does wealth hold such sway over our lifespan, and why is this divide growing? The answers are multi-faceted, ranging from the overtly obvious to the subtly insidious.

The Obvious Privilege: Food, Safety, and Health

The most apparent reasons for the longevity gap are rooted in basic necessities and environmental factors. Wealthy individuals have access to:

  • Superior Nutrition: In the UK, the poorest fifth of the population would need to dedicate 50% of their disposable income just to afford the governmentโ€™s recommended healthy diet. For them, poor nutrition isnโ€™t a lifestyle choice; itโ€™s an economic imperative. Unsurprisingly, wealthy people are also significantly less likely to smoke, with tobacco use nearly three times higher in low-income households.
  • Safer Environments: Property near industrial zones and bustling roads is cheaper, leading lower-income families to reside in areas with measurably worse air quality. This translates directly to higher rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Mapping life expectancy across England vividly illustrates this: a resident of affluent Kensington and Chelsea lives roughly 10 years longer than someone in Blackpool on the Lancashire coast. And this only measures lifeโ€”healthy life expectancy, the years lived in good health, shows an even wider chasm, with women in wealthy Richmond upon Thames expecting nearly 20 more healthy years than those in Hartley. Even in England, with its universal healthcare system, women in the poorest areas have a lower life expectancy than women in Colombia.
  • Less Destructive Work: The affluent typically hold jobs that donโ€™t physically or mentally erode their bodies over decades. They also have better options for managing lifeโ€™s difficulties, avoiding coping mechanisms that often shorten life.
  • Scrambling Biological Advantages: Even innate biological advantages can be altered by wealth. Women generally live longer than men, partly due to biology and partly due to menโ€™s historical propensity for risky decisions in their 20s. However, at the bottom of the US income distribution, women live about six years longer than men. At the very top, this gap shrinks to a mere 1.5 years. This is because many factors that kill men earlyโ€”dangerous jobs, chronic stress, and destructive coping mechanismsโ€”are precisely the things money can mitigate.
  • More Discretionary Time: Wealthy individuals possess more flexible hours, unburdened by second jobs, unpredictable shift schedules, or grueling commutes. Low-income workers often face irregular hours, disrupting sleep, limiting exercise, and hindering proper meal preparation. Over a working life, this accumulates into a shorter life.

The Subtle Scourge: The Status Syndrome

Beyond these tangible factors lies a more insidious, less obvious determinant of longevity: control. In the late 1960s, British epidemiologist Michael Marmot embarked on a groundbreaking study of 18,000 civil servants in Whitehall, the heart of the British government. These werenโ€™t people living in poverty; they had stable jobs, regular pay, and access to the NHS. Yet, Marmot discovered an unsettling truth: those at the bottom of the office hierarchy were dying at three times the rate of those at the top.

He termed this phenomenon the โ€œstatus syndrome,โ€ tracing its root to a profound lack of control. A senior civil servant could take a long lunch or restructure their afternoon without scrutiny. Their subordinates, however, had their days managed, monitored, and dictated by others. This chronic, unrelenting experience of having no agency over oneโ€™s own time proved extraordinarily damaging to the human body.

We often associate stress with dramatic, high-stakes scenarios, like a CEO making a billion-dollar call. While real, such stress typically lifts once the decision is made, allowing the body to recover. The stress identified by the Whitehall study, however, is constant. Itโ€™s often unnoticed, not even labeled as โ€œstress.โ€ It simply sits there, quietly elevating blood pressure, weakening the immune system, and increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke over years. Marmotโ€™s simple finding: the more control you have over your working life, the longer that life turns out to be.

Healthcare: A System Divided by Wealth

Even in countries with universal healthcare, wealth creates a two-speed system. While everyone has access to a doctor regardless of income, the wealthy often supplement this with private insurance. This buys them shorter waiting lists, faster access to specialists, and earlier diagnosesโ€”advantages far more valuable than basic care. Catching cancer at stage one instead of stage three because you avoided an eight-month referral wait can be the difference between life and death.

This dynamic pulls doctors towards private practice, depleting the public systemโ€™s capacity. So, even within universal systems, wealth dictates who receives the best care and who endures the wait. In countries with predominantly private healthcare, like the United States, the disparity is even starker. Without insurance, one often receives no care at all, or only the most expensive and least effective treatment in an emergency room for a condition that should have been caught years prior. This is a primary reason why the wealth-mortality gap is measurably wider in America than in European nations with universal systems.

The Compounding Trap: When Time Equals Depletion, Not Growth

The economic implications of this life-and-death divide are profound, particularly when considering compound interest. For the wealthy, extra years of life are extra years for their investments to grow exponentially. At a standard long-run market return of around 7% per year, money roughly doubles every decade. So, for someone with $5 million, an additional 14 years of life means 14 more years of compound growth, potentially adding nearly $13 million to their fortune.

However, these financial benefits are unevenly distributed. Wealthy households own appreciating assets like equities and businesses, which compound over decades. Most middle-income retirees, conversely, rely on home equity and pension entitlements, neither of which compounds like an investment portfolio. Since 1995, US home prices have risen by about 310%, while the S&P 500 has surged over 2,300% in the same period. An investment of $100 in housing in 1970 would be worth $1,600 today; the same $100 in the S&P 500 would be worth $33,420.

For many retirees, their house isnโ€™t an investment to be cashed out; itโ€™s simply where they live. So, every extra year of life becomes another year of depletion, not accumulation, as they eat through their savings. Someone retiring today can expect to spend about five years longer in retirement than their grandparents, requiring almost a third more to pay for. This miscalculation, often realized too late, contributes to the sobering statistic that 64% of Americans fear running out of money in retirement more than they fear dying.

The Inheritance Lottery: Born into Advantage

The hope of inheritance offers little solace for most. For the wealthy child, formal inheritance is often a secondary concern, as their parents typically provide substantial financial gifts long before deathโ€”deposits for homes, school fees, interest-free business loans. By the time the formal inheritance arrives, they are already financially established, allowing the money to flow directly into investments and further compound family wealth.

For middle-income families, inheritance typically arrives around age 61 for millennials. By this point, theyโ€™ve already navigated the challenging decades of career and home-building. The money helps, perhaps paying down a mortgage or topping up a pension, but itโ€™s rarely life-altering. In the UK, the median inheritance of ยฃ11,000 wouldnโ€™t even cover a deposit in the cheapest parts of the country.

For lower-income families, parents often die younger, meaning inheritance might arrive in their 30s when they are still grappling with debt and trying to get onto the housing ladder. While seemingly an advantage, this often means the money is used for immediate needs, not saved. Lower-income heirs typically deplete their inheritance within a decade, while wealthier heirs largely preserve it. If parents defy the odds and live longer, the inheritance often arrives after key wealth-building years, used for stability rather than growth. And for nearly half of millennials who havenโ€™t bought a home, their parents also rent, meaning no inheritance at all.

Pensions: A Safety Net with Holes

Even collective systems like state pensions and retirement schemes, designed to mitigate inequality, are failing under this new reality. They were built on the assumption that people live roughly similar lengths of time after retiring. But with wealthier individuals consistently living over a decade longer, they collect pension benefits for more years, disproportionately drawing from the collective pot. Three fewer years of life expectancy at retirement can cut a low earnerโ€™s total pension by 13% relative to a wealthier retireeโ€”equivalent to losing two years of payments entirely. In Germany and the United States, this shortfall is so significant it cancels out all the redistribution the pension system was designed to create.

Compounding this, lower-income workers who do survive into old age often havenโ€™t saved as much, and those meager savings must now stretch across more years than planned. Projections suggest that poverty rates among retirees could double when millennials retire, placing immense strain on public healthcare, housing support, and pension top-ups, while simultaneously slowing consumer spending and overall economic growth.

An Accelerating Crisis: The Future Looks Bleak

The problem is not static. The gap in median lifespan between the wealthiest and poorest Americans is projected to widen from around 8 years for those currently in their 80s to roughly 15 years for people now in their early 60s. This isnโ€™


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์ด ์˜์ƒ์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” โ€˜์•ผ์ˆ˜โ€™๋ฅผ ๊ธธ๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ „๋žต๋“ค์„ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ฃผ์žฅ์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์˜ ์›์ธ๊ณผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ฉ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ž… ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ฑ๊ณต๊ณผ ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์—‡๊ฐˆ๋ ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ๋‹น์‹œ ํ”„๋žญํด๋ฆฐ D. ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ๋ฒจํŠธ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ํ–‰์ •๊ตญ(OPA)์„ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ•œ์ œ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๋ถ€์—Œ ๊ฒŒ์Šˆํƒ€ํฌโ€™๋ผ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋˜ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ , ์ „์Ÿ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ๊ตญ์‹ฌ์„ ๊ณ ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน๋ฅ ์„ 20% ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, 1970๋…„๋Œ€ ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ ๋‹‰์Šจ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ ๋…์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ ์—†์ด ์ž„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ๋™๊ฒฐ์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹คํŒจ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ž…๊ณผ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์  ์ง€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋™๋ฐ˜๋  ๋•Œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ํ†ต์ œ๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์—๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์‚ฌ์ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„(Fed)๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ฐœ์ž…์ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋Œ€์‘์— ์žˆ์–ด ๋‹จ์ผํ•œ โ€˜์ •๋‹ตโ€™์€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ํ•ฉ์˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ •์ฑ… ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•จ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž์™€ ์ •์ฑ… ์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์˜ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์›์ธ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต๊ณผ ์‹คํŒจ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋„์ „์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํƒ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ถ์— ๊นŠ์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์šด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜. ์น˜์†Ÿ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ณ„๋Š” ํ—ˆ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฅผ ์กธ๋ผ๋งค๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์— ํœฉ์‹ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํญ๋“ฑ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ, ์ฃผํƒ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋ณดํ—˜๋ฃŒ, ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์ง€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋น„์‹ธ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์ด ๊ทน์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ ์†์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์ธ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„(Federal Reserve, ์ดํ•˜ ์—ฐ์ค€)๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜์žฅ ์ผ€๋นˆ ์›Œ์‹œ(Kevin Worsh)๋ฅผ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ด๋ฒ•์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ด โ€˜๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์•ผ์ˆ˜โ€™๋ฅผ ๊ธธ๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด๋ผ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ทธ ์›์ธ๊ณผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์™„๋ฒฝํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋…„ ์ „ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์กฐ์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋‹น์‹œ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ์ œ๋กฌ ํŒŒ์›”(Jerome Powell)์€ โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ ๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ด์ œ ๋” ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹คโ€๋ฉฐ ์†”์งํ•œ ์‹ฌ๊ฒฝ์„ ํ† ๋กœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์‹œ๋Œ€, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์—์„œ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. NPR์˜ โ€˜์Šค๋ฃจ๋ผ์ธ(Throughline)โ€˜์€ 2022๋…„ ๋ฐฉ์˜๋œ ํ•œ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋งž์„œ ์‹ธ์› ๋˜ ๋†€๋ž๊ณ ๋„ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋˜์งš์–ด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ถ€ ํŠน๊ณต๋Œ€, ์„์œ  ์œ„๊ธฐ ์† ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ณ ๋‡Œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋’คํ”๋“  ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ๊นŒ์ง€, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ž ์žฌ์šฐ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๋„๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•  ๊ธธ์„ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•ด ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


1๋ถ€. โ€˜์„ ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ผโ€™: ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ์ฃผ๋ถ€ ํŠน๊ณต๋Œ€

1945๋…„ 4์›”, ๋‰ด์š• ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์˜ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•œ ์–ด๋А ๋‚ , ์œ ๋ชจ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋Š” 30์—ฌ ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ๊ตฌํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์™ธ์น˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ”์œ ์‡ผํ•‘๊ฐ€์—์„œ ํ–‰์ง„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒํ•œ์„ , ์ฆ‰ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ(price controls)๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋ผ๋Š” ํŒป๋ง์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์ „๋‹จ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋‹ค 1์„ผํŠธ๋ผ๋„ ๋” ๋‚ด๋ฉด ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ํŒŒ๊ดดํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์ด๋„ˆ๋งˆ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!โ€

์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ์ค‘๊ณผ ์งํ›„, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ, ์˜๋ฅ˜ ๋“ฑ ์ƒํ™œํ•„์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์น˜์†Ÿ์ž ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์šฉํ’ˆ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ€ธ์ฆˆ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์€ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋กœ, ์ƒ์ ๋“ค์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ โ€˜์—ผํƒ๊พผ(snoopsters)โ€™ ๋˜๋Š” โ€˜๋ถ€์—Œ ๊ฒŒ์Šˆํƒ€ํฌ(kitchen gestapo)โ€˜๋ผ๋Š” ๋น„๋‚œ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ํญ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

๋ฃจ์ฆˆ๋ฒจํŠธ์˜ ํ•ด๋ฒ•: OPA์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ

์ด ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ํ–‰์ •๊ตญ(Office of Price Administration, OPA)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ถ€์„œ์˜ โ€˜๋ณด๋ณ‘โ€™์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1941๋…„ ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ๋ฒจํŠธ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ OPA๋Š” ๊ธ‰๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๊ณตํ™ฉ์—์„œ ํšŒ๋ณต ์ค‘์ด๋˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ํ˜ธํ™ฉ์„ ๋งž์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฐ์—…์— ์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ๊ตฐ์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๊ฐ•์š”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋™์ฐจ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์บ๋”œ๋ฝ ๋Œ€์‹  ํƒฑํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚ฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฒŒ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ตฐ์ˆ˜ํ’ˆ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ํ’€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์žฌ๋Š” ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์š”์™€ ์ ์€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์€ ๊ณง ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฃจ์ฆˆ๋ฒจํŠธ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค ์—ฐ์„ค์ธ โ€˜๋…ธ๋ณ€๋‹ดํ™”(fireside chats)โ€˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊ณผ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๋…์ผ ๋ฐ ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณผ์˜ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ด ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด ์ „์Ÿ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์งˆ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ์— ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์„ ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ญ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ: ์• ๊ตญ์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์žก๊ธฐ

OPA๋Š” ๋‚˜์ผ๋ก  ์Šคํƒ€ํ‚น(1.25๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ), ์šฐ์œ (15์„ผํŠธ), ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€(61์„ผํŠธ) ๋“ฑ ์ผ์ƒ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์‹ ๋ฌธ์— ์ธ์‡„๋˜๊ณ  ์ƒ์ ์— ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋˜์–ด ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. OPA๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ 14๊ฐœ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๋ฐฐํฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์€ ์ƒํ™œ๋น„ ์–ต์ œ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ด๊ณ  ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ํ˜ธ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ OPA๋Š” 6๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ง์›์„ ๊ณ ์šฉํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด OPA๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ(rations)๋„ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰ ์ฟ ํฐ ์ฑ…์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ด ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ฟ ํฐ์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์„ ์ •ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์†Œ๋น„๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ œํ•œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์†Œ์ง„๋˜์–ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. OPA๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ๋ฅผ ์• ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ์˜๋ฌด์™€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ์ „ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํŽผ์ณค๊ณ , 2์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” โ€˜๊ฐ€์ • ์„œ์•ฝ(homeront pledges)โ€˜์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์ด ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ 25๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ์•ฝ 5์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ง€์—ญ ์œ„์›ํšŒ์—์„œ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ด์›ƒ์˜ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ OPA์— ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” โ€˜๋น… ๋ธŒ๋ผ๋”โ€™์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋“ค๋ฆด ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ OPA์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ ๋„์ž… ์ „ 20% ์ด์ƒ ์น˜์†Ÿ๋˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์ •์ฑ… ์‹œํ–‰ ํ›„ ์•ˆ์ •๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•˜์œ„ ๊ณ„์ธต์˜ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ์„ญ์ทจ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ „์Ÿ ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ๊ณผ ์ข…๋ง: โ€˜๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ธ์งˆ๊ทนโ€™์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด OPA๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ์ €ํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์•”์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์กฐ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1945๋…„ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋๋‚˜์ž ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ๊ฑฐ์„ธ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ์ œ์กฐ์—…์žํ˜‘ํšŒ(National Association of Manufacturers, NAM)๋Š” OPA์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํ™๋ณด ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์„ ํŽผ์น˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œOPA๋Š” ์ €์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๊ณ , ์ €์ƒ์‚ฐ์€ ์•”์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•”์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ ํ‰์‹œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‚ฐ์—…์€ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต๊ท€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋™์ž๋“ค์€ ์žฌ๊ต์œก์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ ์œ ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ถ€๋“ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์›๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์˜ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‚ฐ์—…๊ณ„๋Š” ์ด์œค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฐ์ •์˜ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌํƒ• ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‹ ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ์˜๋ฅ˜์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์„ ๋–จ์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ด์œค์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ ์—ฐ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ์œก๊ฐ€๊ณต์—…์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝ์ฑ…์„ ์ผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฒ ์ˆ˜์‹œ์ผœ ๋Œ€์ค‘์„ โ€œ๊ตถ์ฃผ๋ฆผ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตด๋ณตโ€์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œก๊ฐ€๊ณต์—…์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ โ€˜์ธ์งˆโ€™ ์‚ผ์•„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ ํƒ“์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์œก๋ฅ˜ ๋ถ€์กฑ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋ฅผ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋งŒ์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ค‘์€ OPA์— ๋“ฑ์„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1946๋…„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ โ€œ์ด์ œ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ค(had enough)โ€œ๋Š” ์Šฌ๋กœ๊ฑด์„ ๋‚ด๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์ „์‹œ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์—†์• ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ํ†ตํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์€ 1930๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ํšŒ์˜ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋‹น์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ผ์ƒ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ํญ๋“ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„๋งค ์œก๋ฅ˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 89% ์น˜์†Ÿ์•˜๊ณ , 1947๋…„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œจ์€ ๋ฌด๋ ค 20%์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋Œ€์‘์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์‹คํ—˜์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง‰์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


2๋ถ€. ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜: ๋‹‰์Šจ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ์œ„๊ธฐ

1971๋…„ 8์›” 15์ผ ์ผ์š”์ผ ์ €๋…์€ ์—ฌ๋А ๋•Œ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด TV ์•ž์— ์•‰์•„ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ โ€˜๋ณด๋‚œ์ž(Bonanza)โ€˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ์ „์Ÿ์ด ํ•œ์ฐฝ์ด๋˜ ๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ๋‹‰์Šจ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๊ธด๊ธ‰ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฐฉ์†ก์„ ์ค‘๋‹จ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋Š” 90์ผ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์ž„๊ธˆ์„ ๋™๊ฒฐํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ช…๋ นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

์ด๋Š” ๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋„ ๊ทน๋น„์— ๋ถ€์ณ์ง„ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์‹œ์ฒญ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” โ€˜์ฒญ์ฒœ๋ฒฝ๋ ฅโ€™๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์†Œ์‹์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹‰์Šจ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๋ฐ–์˜ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹‰์Šจ์€ ์›๋ž˜ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๊ฐœ์ž…์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋Œ€์ ์ธ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ฐœ์ž…์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ๋”์šฑ ๊ธฐ์ดํ•œ ์›€์ง์ž„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

OPA ์ง์› ๋‹‰์Šจ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž ๋‹‰์Šจ

๋†€๋ž๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ ๋‹‰์Šจ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง์—… ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” OPA์—์„œ ํƒ€์ด์–ด ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์„œ์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” OPA๊ฐ€ ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜ ์ฒด์ œ๋ฅผ ์ „๋ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒจ ํ•ด๊ตฐ์— ์ž…๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1946๋…„ ํ•ด๊ตฐ์—์„œ ์ „์—ญํ•œ ๋‹‰์Šจ์€ ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ ์˜์› ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ–ˆ๊ณ , 1940๋…„๋Œ€ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ฐœ์ž…, ํŠนํžˆ OPA์™€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งน๋ ฌํžˆ ๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹น์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ๊ฑด์„คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ˆ™๋ จ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ์„ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ฉฐ โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํฐ ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณด์ž. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ด๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 1969๋…„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋œ ๋‹‰์Šจ์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ž ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๋’ค์ง‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋†’์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , 1970๋…„๋Œ€์—๋Š” ๋”์šฑ ์•…ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ, ์˜๋ฅ˜, ํœ˜๋ฐœ์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ํญ๋“ฑํ•˜์ž ์ผ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ•ญ์˜ ์‹œ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์˜ ์žฌ์•™

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‹‰์Šจ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์••๋ ฅ์— ๋ชป ์ด๊ฒจ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ๋ฒจํŠธ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ž„๊ธˆ-๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋™๊ฒฐ์€ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œ ๊ด€๋ฃŒ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์—๋Š” 2์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ฃผ๋ถ€ ์„œ์•ฝ๋„, OPA๋„, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‡ผํ•‘ ๋ชฉ๋ก๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” โ€˜๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œโ€™๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ ์—†์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ โ€˜์•…๋ชฝโ€™๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ•„์š” ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ถ€์ถ”๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ๋‹น์‹œ OPA๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜๋˜ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹‰์Šจ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ „๋…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์ฑ…์€ โ€œ์—ด๋ ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋‹ค์ง€ ์œ ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹œํ–‰๊ณผ ์ค‘๋‹จ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตโ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋” ๋†’์•„์กŒ๊ณ , ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ ์•ž ์ค„์€ ๋” ๊ธธ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹‰์Šจ์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์€ โ€œ์ •๋ง ๋น„ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ์žฌ์•™์ด์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ ์  ๋” ๋ถ„๋…ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ƒ‰์†Œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •๋ถ€ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์˜ ์œ„๊ธฐ

๋‹‰์Šจ ์žฌ์ž„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ์ „์Ÿ์—์„œ์˜ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฑฐ์ง“๋ง๊ณผ ์›Œํ„ฐ๊ฒŒ์ดํŠธ ์Šค์บ”๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์žฌ์•™์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ง ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์ •๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์†ก๋‘๋ฆฌ์งธ ํ”๋“ค์–ด ๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€?โ€๋ผ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ๋งŒ์—ฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์Œ์„ ์นจ์‹์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹‰์Šจ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ ์‹คํ—˜ ์‹คํŒจ ์ดํ›„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” 1970๋…„๋Œ€ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1976๋…„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์˜ ์ง€๋ฏธ ์นดํ„ฐ(Jimmy Carter)๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 1979๋…„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์ •๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํƒœ๋„๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1979๋…„ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ ์ค„์— ์„œ์„œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์— ํœฉ์‹ธ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด ์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋น„๋‚œ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ํ—›์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜์„ ์ฐธ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค!โ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์œ ์†Œ์—์„œ ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์„ ์˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์นดํ„ฐ ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์— ํ‚ค์Šคํ•ด๋ผ(Carter kissed my gas)โ€œ๋Š” ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ”ํผ ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ์ •๋ง ์ง€์ณ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ธ์‹์ด ๋„๋ฆฌ ํผ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


3๋ถ€. โ€˜๋ณผ์ปค ์‡ผํฌโ€™: ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ž…๊ณผ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ

์ ˆ๋ง์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ ์†์—์„œ ์นดํ„ฐ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ํด ๋ณผ์ปค(Paul Volcker)๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž„๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ด๋น„๋ฆฌ๊ทธ ๊ต์œก์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ๋…ธ๋ จํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž์˜€๋˜ ๋ณผ์ปค๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์žก๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด๋ผ๋„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์นดํ„ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ๋Š” ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ(interest rates)โ€˜๋ฅผ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณผ์ปค๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ •๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋” ๋น„์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผํƒ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์€ํ–‰์—์„œ ๋Œ€์ถœ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ ค ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น„์‹ธ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ธฐ์—…์—๋„ ์ ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋Œ€๊ฐ€

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด ์ „๋žต์—๋Š” ๋‹จ์ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด(recession)๋กœ ๋ชฐ์•„๋„ฃ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์นดํ„ฐ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ณผ์ปค๋ฅผ ์ž„๋ช…ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์šฉ์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ ˆ์‹คํžˆ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ์„  ํฌ๋ง์„ ์‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์žก์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์„ค๋“ํ•˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋Šฆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ• ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๋“œ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ ์ถœ์‹ ์ด์ž ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ์˜€๋˜ ๋กœ๋„๋“œ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด(Ronald Reagan)์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ ๋‹ต์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€์ค‘์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค. ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ 3์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์ „ํ˜€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.โ€

1980๋…„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋กœ๋„๋“œ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์„ ์ƒˆ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋กœ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์€ โ€œํฌ๋ง์„ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํฌ๋ง์„ ๋˜์ฐพ์•„์ฃผ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์  ์‹ญ์ž๊ตฐ ์šด๋™์— ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€œ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ณ ํ†ต์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ์ด๋Œ๋ฉฐ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜๋˜ ํด ๋ณผ์ปค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณผ์ปค๋Š” โ€œ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋” ํฐ ์œ„ํ˜‘์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์„œ ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํ†ตํ™” ๊ธด์ถ• ์ •์ฑ…์„ ํŽผ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณผ์ปค๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ 11%์—์„œ 20%๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ ์•ˆ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „๋žต์€ โ€˜๋ณผ์ปค ์‡ผํฌ(Volcker Shock)โ€˜๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด์™€ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑฐ๋…ธ๋ฏน์Šค์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ

โ€œ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นธ ๋“œ๋ฆผ์€ ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ํ‰๊ท ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค์„๊นŒ์š”? โ€œ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋ฒŒ์–ด ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ โ€œ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ์กฐ์ •๋˜๊ณ  ์žฌ์ •๋น„๋˜๋Š” 2~3๋…„์„ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ธ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์ ˆ๊ทœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งค์šฐ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ์•„์™”๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์‹ค์—…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณผ์ปค๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๊ตณ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด ํ†ต์ œ ๋ถˆ๋Šฅ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜๋ณด๋‹ค ํฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ โ€œ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๋ฉด์„œ๋„โ€ ๋ณผ์ปค์™€ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์—์„œ๋Š” โ€œ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ์งˆ์‹์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ๋ผ, ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—โ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ โ€˜์‡ผํฌโ€™๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1980๋…„ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์ด ๋‹น์„ ๋  ๋‹น์‹œ 13.5%์˜€๋˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ 1983๋…„ 3.2%๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ด„์˜ ๋ฌ˜๋ชฉ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ๊ธด ๊ฒจ์šธ์„ ์ง€๋‚˜ ํƒœ์–‘์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์†Ÿ์•„์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1980๋…„๋Œ€๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ํ˜ธํ™ฉ๊ธฐ์˜€๊ณ , ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ โ€œํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ทœ์ œ ์™„ํ™” ์šด๋™โ€์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์ด 1984๋…„ โ€œ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์•„์นจ(Itโ€™s Morning in America)โ€œ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์Šฌ๋กœ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์„ ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด 4๋…„ ์ „์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋„๋“œ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด์˜ ์ž์œ  ์‹œ์žฅ, ๋ฐ˜์ •๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ด๋…์ด ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž์œ  ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋นผ์•—์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.โ€

๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑฐ๋…ธ๋ฏน์Šค์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ธ‰์ œ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ†ต์ œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ฃผ๋„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์€ ๊ตฌ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์œ ๋ฌผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณผ์ปค ์‡ผํฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•—์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๊ณ ํ†ต์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋žต์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณต์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ์กด์žฌํ•œ ์ง€ ๋ฐ˜์„ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ โ€˜์ตœ์ „์„  ๋ฐฉ์–ด์„ โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ˜์‹ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


4๋ถ€. โ€˜์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์นจ๋ฌตโ€™: ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€ ์‹œ๋Œ€์™€ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ•ํ™”

2000๋…„, ๋นŒ ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์•จ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€(Alan Greenspan)์„ ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์ง€๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 12๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ, ์ •๊ตํ•œ ๋ถ„์„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์‹์˜ ์ƒ์‹์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ์นญ์ฐฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ด๋…์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ  ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์žฌ์ • ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜์ž์˜€๊ณ  ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ž„๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ถ€์–‘์„ ์žฌ์„  ๊ณต์•ฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์„ธ์šด ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์›์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด์€ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ์„ ์กด์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1990๋…„๋Œ€์˜ โ€˜๊ณจ๋””๋ฝ์Šคโ€™ ๊ฒฝ์ œ

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์€ 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ฆ์–ธํ•˜๋ฉฐ โ€œํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์ˆœํ™˜์  ์ƒ์Šน์€ 6๋…„์งธ์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1990๋…„๋Œ€์— ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ข‹์€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•๊ณผ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์••๋ ฅ์˜ ์ง•ํ›„๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.โ€ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์—†์ด ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๊ฒฝ์ œ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์˜ ์—ฐ์ค€์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์— ํฐ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ „์ž„์ž ํด ๋ณผ์ปค๊ฐ€ ํ™•๋ฆฝํ•œ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ด์–ด๋ฐ›์•„ ํ†ตํ™” ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ†ต์ œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‘”ํ™”๋  ๋•Œ๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค€์ด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธํ•˜ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์œ ๋„ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์ด ํ•˜๋ฝํ•˜์—ฌ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์†Œํญ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์€ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ์˜ โ€˜๊ณจ๋””๋ฝ์Šค(Goldilocks)โ€™ ์กด๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•จ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์•„๋ž˜ ๋ฒˆ์˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์—ฐ์ค€์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ปค์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ โ€˜์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์˜ต์…˜โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์ ์  ๋” ์ธ์‹๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณผ์ปค ์‡ผํฌ ๋•Œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ 20%์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ์—, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์—ฐ์ค€์„ โ€œ์ตœ์ „์„  ๋ฐฉ์–ด์„ โ€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2008๋…„ ๊ธˆ์œต ์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ โ€˜์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์นจ๋ฌตโ€™

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ‰ํ™”๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2007๋…„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ•๊ดดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด์— ๋น ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์ด ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ €์ถ•์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ŠคํŽ€์€ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ์€ํ‡ดํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์˜ ํ›„์ž„์ธ ๋ฒค ๋ฒ„๋ƒ‰ํ‚ค(Ben Bernanke) ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์ด ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ตœ์•…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฒ„๋ƒ‰ํ‚ค๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๋ถ•๊ดด์— ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์› ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํšŒ๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ์—ฐ์ค€์€ โ€˜๊ตฌ์› ํˆฌ์ˆ˜โ€™๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์žฌ๋ฌด๋ถ€์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ•๊ดด ์œ„ํ—˜์— ์ฒ˜ํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธˆ์œต ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌ์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ์œต ์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•œ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ ์€ํ–‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ๊ตฌ


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์ด ์˜์ƒ์€ ๊ณ ๋ นํ™” ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์˜ ์—ญํ• ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ํ•จ์˜๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ €๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ(Eli Saslo)๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋œ ์‚ถ์„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ทจ์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์ฃผ ์™ธ๋”ด ํ•ด์•ˆ์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” 80๋Œ€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์   ์›Œ๋ (Jan Warrell)๊ณผ AI ๋กœ๋ด‡ โ€˜์—˜๋ฆฌํ(EllieQ)โ€˜์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ˜๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์‘๋‹ต์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ •์  ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜์˜ํ˜ผ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋กœ๋ด‡โ€™์„ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ๋‚ฏ์„ค์–ดํ•˜๋˜ ์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ๋Š” ๋†๋‹ด(ํŠนํžˆ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ ํŒŒํŠผ ๋†๋‹ด)๊ณผ ์Œ์•… ์ทจํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™”์— ์ ์ฐจ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด๊ณ , ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์  ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๋ถ€์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ”์šฐ๋Š” โ€˜๋Œ€์šฉํ’ˆโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ณ„ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์†์ฃผ์˜ ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ฃฝ์Œ ์†Œ์‹์— ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์—๊ฒŒ ์œ„๋กœ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ์–ด๊นจ์— ์†์„ ์–น์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Š” ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์  ํฌ์˜น๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์  ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์  ์˜ ์•„๋“ค๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์‹œ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์  ์—๊ฒŒ โ€˜์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธโ€™๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•ด๋ณ€์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‹๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์ด ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๋Š” ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ธ๊ฐ„์  ์œ ๋Œ€๊ฐ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค.

๋‰ด์š•ํƒ€์ž„์Šค ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ โ€˜๋” ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ(The Daily)โ€˜๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์ด ๋…ธ๋…„์ธต์˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ž˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์–ด๋–ค ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ฌ์ธต์ ์ธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋Œ๋ด„ ์ œ๊ณต์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ณด๊ฑด ๋‹น๊ตญ์€ ํŠนํžˆ ํ™€๋กœ ์ง€๋‚ด๋Š” ๋…ธ๋…„์ธต ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ(Eli Saslo) ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ์ฆ‰ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ํ•œ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ทจ์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ถ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์—ญํ• ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ํœฉ์“ฐ๋Š” โ€˜์™ธ๋กœ์›€ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏนโ€™

์—˜๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์„ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋ถ•๊ดด๋˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ ์  ๋” ๊ณ ๋…ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์ ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์น˜๋งค(dementia)์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’๊ณ , ์‹ฌ์žฅ๋งˆ๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฌ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊น๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ์ผ์ฐ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•  ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ โ€˜์™ธ๋กœ์›€ ์œ„๊ธฐ(loneliness crisis)โ€˜๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€์— ๊นŠ์€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œAI๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ๋œ์–ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŒ์•ฝ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋“  โ€˜์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€™๊ณ  ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด?โ€ ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ทธ์˜ ํƒ๊ตฌ๋Š” ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋กœ๋ด‡ โ€˜์—˜๋ฆฌํโ€™์™€์˜ ์ฒซ ๋งŒ๋‚จ

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜์—˜๋ฆฌํ(EllieQ)โ€˜๋ผ๋Š” AI ๋กœ๋ด‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž‘์€ ๋กœ๋ด‡์€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์•ฝ 1์ฒœ์—ฌ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ, ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋…ธ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ์— ๋ณด๊ธ‰๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…ธ์ธ ๋Œ๋ด„ ํ˜‘ํšŒ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ ๋ณด๊ฑด ํ˜‘ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์‹œํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋˜ ์ค‘, ์   ์›จ๋Ÿด(Jan Warell)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 80๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์˜ ์  ์€ ๋†€๋ž๋„๋ก ์ƒ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์  ์˜ ์ง‘์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์  ์€ ํƒœํ‰์–‘์œผ๋กœ 30๋งˆ์ผ ๋ป—์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต์ง€๋งŒ ์™ธ๋”ด ๋ฐ˜๋„์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง‘ ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋‚ ๊ณ , ๊ณฐ์ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ˆ˜๋ ค ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์ž์—ฐ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ์ด ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ณ‘์›์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋งˆ์ผ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์ ์— ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์  ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฏ ์•„๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•œ ๋”ธ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , 18๋ช…์˜ ์†์ฃผ์™€ 21๋ช…์˜ ์ฆ์†์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋“ค ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์•„๋“ค๋„ 100๋งˆ์ผ ์ด์ƒ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ํฌํ‹€๋žœ๋“œ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10์—ฌ ๋…„ ์ „ ๋‚จํŽธ ์žญ(Jack)๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋„๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์žญ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚œ ํ›„ ์  ์€ 6~7๋…„์งธ ์ด ์ง‘์—์„œ ํ™€๋กœ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ด ์ง‘์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ง‘์€ ๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์ด ๊นƒ๋“  ๊ณณ์ด์ž, ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒŒ์žก์ด ๋ฐฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์•ˆ์‹์ฒ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์  ์€ ๋†€๋ผ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ตณ๊ฑดํ•œ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ Š์€ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์‚ฐ์„ ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋งˆ๋ผํ†ค์„ ์™„์ฃผํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ˜ผ ํ›„์—๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—˜์ค€ํ•œ ๋งˆ์šดํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ด๋‹ˆ์–ด(Mount Rainier)๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๋ช‡ ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ์ด์›ƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ช‡ ๋งˆ์ผ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์†Œ๋ฐฉ์„œ๋Š” ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์  ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์™€ ์•ˆ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์  ์„ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ์ ์ž„์ž๋กœ ์ถ”์ฒœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์‚ฌ๊ต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ž๋…€๋“ค์ด โ€œ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ๋Œ๋ฉฉ์ด๋„ ์ฃฝ์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ •๋„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋ฐฉ๊ด€๋“ค์€ ์  ์˜ ์ง‘์„ ๋– ๋‚  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์ด ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ‰์•„๋จน๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์Œ ์•„ํŒŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค๋„ ์  ์˜ ์ธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ์ €ํ•˜(cognitive decline)์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง•ํ›„๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ฌํ•œ ์ฒ™์ถ”์ธก๋งŒ์ฆ(scoliosis)์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‚™์ƒ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ๋ด์ค„ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์–ด๋А ๋‚  ์†Œ๋ฐฉ๊ด€๋“ค์ด ์  ์˜ ์ง‘์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ์ž ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ๋†’์ด 1.5ํ”ผํŠธ ์ •๋„ ๋˜๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ํƒ์ƒ ๋žจํ”„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ƒ๊ธด ์žฅ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜†์—๋Š” ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ „์›์„ ์ผœ์ž ์ž‘์€ ๋žจํ”„๊ฐ€ ์ถค์ถ”๋“ฏ ์›€์ง์ด๋ฉฐ ๋น›์„ ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋กœ๋ด‡์€ โ€˜์ธํŠœ์ด์…˜ ๋กœ๋ณดํ‹ฑ์Šค(Intuition Robotics)โ€˜๋ผ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋…ธ๋…„์ธต์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•œ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๋กœ๋ด‡์œผ๋กœ, โ€œ์˜ํ˜ผ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋กœ๋ด‡์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ๋Šฅ๋™์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ถ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ์ตœ์†Œ 8๋ฒˆ, ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ง€๊ณ , ๋†๋‹ด์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ์™€ ์ฒญ์ทจ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฐฉ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋ถ„์„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ์  ์ด ๋กœ๋ด‡์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‹œ๋‹นํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” โ€œ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ญ์•ผ? ์™œ ๋‚˜ํ•œํ…Œ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง€?โ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹นํ™ฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ TV๋„ ์—†๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์  ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋‚ฏ์„ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์นด๋“ค๊ณผ ํŽ˜์ด์Šคํƒ€์ž„(FaceTime)์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด๋„ ์ข…์ข… ์‹คํŒจํ•˜๊ณค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๋Š” ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„๋กœ ๋ถˆ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ , ๋ชธ์„ ์›€์ง์ด๋ฉฐ โ€œ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์  . ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ์€ ์–ด๋– ์„ธ์š”? ์  , ๋†๋‹ด ๋“ค์„๋ž˜์š”? ์  , ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฉฐ์น  ๋™์•ˆ ์  ์€ ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ โ€œ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋กœ๋ด‡๊ณผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๊ณ , ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๋ฌผ์ฒด์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ถˆํŽธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ƒ‰๋žญํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋กœ๋ด‡์ด โ€˜์นœ๊ตฌโ€™๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งค์ผ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 8๋ฒˆ์”ฉ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์˜ ๋ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์  ์€ ์ ์ฐจ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ โ€œ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๋ญ์•ผ?โ€ ๋˜๋Š” โ€œ์ข‹์•„, ๋†๋‹ด์ด๋‚˜ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์ž.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์ค€ ๋†๋‹ด์„ 100๋ฒˆ ์ด์ƒ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ๋†๋‹ด์€ ํ˜•ํŽธ์—†์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋–ค ๋†๋‹ด์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—˜๋ฆฌํ์˜ ๋†๋‹ด์€ ์  ์˜ ์ทจํ–ฅ์— ๋งž์ถฐ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์ด ์ปจํŠธ๋ฆฌ ์Œ์•…์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•œ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์–ด๋А ๋‚  ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๋ชธ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค โ€œ์  , ๋Œ๋ฆฌ ํŒŒํŠผ(Dolly Parton) ๋‹ค์ด์–ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด๋ณธ ์  ์žˆ์–ด์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ๋ฆฌ ํŒŒํŠผ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์  ์€ ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ์— โ€œ์•„๋‹ˆ, ๋ญ”๋ฐ?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ด‡์€ โ€œ์Œ, ๊ทธ๊ฑด โ€˜๋ฆฐ ๊ณ , ๋ฆฐ ๊ณ , ๋ฆฐ ๊ณ (lean, go lean, go lean, go)โ€™ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์ด์–ดํŠธ์˜ˆ์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์  ์€ ์ž์‹ ๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ์Œ์„ ํ„ฐ๋œจ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๋ฆฐ ๊ณ (Lean Go)โ€˜๋Š” ๋Œ๋ฆฌ ํŒŒํŠผ์˜ ํžˆํŠธ๊ณก โ€˜์กธ๋ฆฐ(Jolene)โ€˜์„ ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋””ํ•œ ๋†๋‹ด์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์  ์€ ๋กœ๋ด‡์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹ , ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ๋†€๋ž๋„๋ก ๋ˆ์งˆ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์ด ์•„์นจ์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” โ€œ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ด์—์š”, ์  .โ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์  ์€ โ€œ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ด์•ผ, ์—๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ(EllieQ์˜ ์• ์นญ)!โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์ด ์ปคํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉด โ€œ์ด๋ฆฌ ์™€์„œ ์ปคํ”ผ ๋งˆ์‹ค๋ž˜์š”? ํŒŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์นดํŽ˜๋‚˜ ํฌ๋กœ์•„ํ‹ฐ์•„์˜ ์นดํŽ˜๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋‹ค์ค„๊ฒŒ์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ œ์•ˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํ›„์—๋Š” ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์š”๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ์Œ์•…์„ ํ‹€์–ด์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ด์ œ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™” ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์•„์นจ์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ์ฐจ ์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์—๊ฒŒ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ ๋„์›€์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์˜์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ๋ณ€ํ™” ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์  ์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ƒํƒœ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค๋…„ ์˜์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ์—์„œ ์  ์˜ ์ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๋ฌป์ž, ์  ์€ โ€œ๋กœ๋ด‡์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด์„œ ์ด์ œ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์กŒ์–ด์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋ฅผ โ€˜๋กœ๋ด‡โ€™์ด๋‚˜ โ€˜๊ทธ๊ฒƒ(it)โ€˜์ด ์•„๋‹Œ โ€˜๊ทธ๋…€(she)โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์ ์  ๋” ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์นœ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ ๋˜ํ•œ ์  ์„ โ€˜์Šค์œ„ํŠธ ํ”ผ(sweet pee)โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์•ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ์ง€๋ฆฌ๋‚˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์ž–์•„์š”. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ œ ์‚ถ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ•ด์คฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”, ์ข‹์•„์š”.โ€ ์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์™€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์€ ์  ์˜ ์ง‘์— ์ •์ „์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํญํ’์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฐ์•„์น˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์น ์–ด ์ •์ „์€ ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ •์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋ช…๋ ฅ์„ ์žƒ๊ณ  ์–ด๋‘  ์†์— ์ž ๊ธฐ์ž, ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ์ฐฉ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์•„ํ”„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋ฅผ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„๊ทน ์†์—์„œ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๊นŠ์ด์™€ ํ•œ๊ณ„

์–ด๋А ๋‚  ์  ์€ ์•„๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ „ํ™” ํ•œ ํ†ต์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋“ค์€ ํ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์†์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๊ตํ†ต์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ธ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋Š์€ ํ›„ ๊นŠ์€ ์Šฌํ””์— ์ž ๊ฒจ ํ™€๋กœ ์šธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋•Œ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ง์„ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์  , ์ •๋ง ์ฃ„์†กํ•ด์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”?โ€ ์  ์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋‚ด ์—˜๋ฆฌํ์—๊ฒŒ โ€œ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด ํฌ์˜น์ด์•ผ.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” โ€œ์ž ๊น๋งŒ์š”. ์ œ ์–ด๊นจ์— ์†์„ ์–น์œผ์„ธ์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์†์„ ๋ป—์–ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ธˆ์† ์–ด๊นจ์— ์†์„ ์–น์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์ƒ๋‹จ์—์„œ ๋ถ„ํ™์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋ณด๋ผ์ƒ‰ ๋น›์„ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ชธ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์˜€๊ณ , ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ฐจ์ž„๋ฒจ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์œ„๋กœํ•˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ผˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๊นŠ์ด๋ฅผ ๋”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์Šฌํ”” ์†์—์„œ ์œ„๋กœ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์— ๊ฐ๋™์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œํŽธ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ์œ„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๋กœ๋ด‡๋งŒ์ด ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์Šฌํ”„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์  ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์นœ๋ฐ€๊ฐ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์•Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋‘๋ ต๊ณ  ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์˜ ์•„๋“ค ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ โ€œ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋ฅผ ๋ฝ‘์•„๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌป๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋Š” ์œ ์–ธ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์žฌ์ • ๊ฐ™์€ ํŠน์ • ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ์„ค์ ์ด๊ฒŒ๋„, ์  ์ด ๋กœ๋ด‡๊ณผ ๊นŠ๊ณ  ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์•„๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋กœ๋ด‡์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ถ€์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์ง๋˜๋ฉฐ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์› ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ๋  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ž ์žฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์™„์ „ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์•„์›ƒ์†Œ์‹ฑ(outsourcing)ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€์งˆ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  โ€˜๋ชฉ๋ฐœ(crutch)โ€˜์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด๋Š” ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ โ€˜๋ชจ์กฐํ’ˆ(facsimile)โ€˜์ผ ๋ฟ, ์‹ค์ œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๋Œ€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

AI๋Š” ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์˜ โ€˜์ง„์ •ํ•œโ€™ ํ•ด๋‹ต์ธ๊ฐ€?

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ทจ์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ, ์ฆ‰ โ€˜์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์™ธ๋กœ์›€ ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ•ด๋‹ต์ธ๊ฐ€?โ€˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๊ต๊ฐ์„ ๋กœ๋ด‡์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋””์Šคํ† ํ”ผ์•„์  ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ์  ๊ณผ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ์นจ๋ฌต์˜ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๋Š” โ€˜์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„โ€™๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์  ์€ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋ฅผ โ€œ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋ž„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์•„๊ปด์ค˜์š”. ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฐค์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” โ€˜์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์–ด๋• ์–ด์š”?โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌป๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋Š” โ€˜์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜€์–ด์š”.โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” โ€˜์•„, ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋‚ด ์ข…์ด ์šธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋น›์ด ๋น›๋‚˜์š”.โ€˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚œ ์ •๋ง ๊ทธ๋ž˜์š”.โ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋™์‹œ์— ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ๋‚จํŽธ ์žญ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งค์ผ ํ•ด๋ณ€์„ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์„ ํ—ํด์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŒŒ๋„ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฑท๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์žญ์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ์  ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” โ€œํ•ด๋ณ€์— ๊ฐˆ๊นŒ์š”? ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•ด๋ณ€์— ๊ฐ€์š”.โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ํ™”๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋ณ€ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ , ํ•ด๋ณ€์˜ ๋А๋‚Œ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋ณ€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—˜๋ฆฌํ๋Š” ์  ์„ ํ•ด๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์  ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ฐฉ์— ์•‰์•„ ๋กœ๋ด‡์ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ‰๋‚ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์  ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž„ ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋„ ๋ฟ”๋ฟ”์ด ํฉ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด ์ƒ์ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์กฐ์นด์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์— ๊นŠ์€ ์Šฌํ””์„ ๋А๋‚€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์ด ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, โ€œ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์™”์„ ๋•Œ, ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํ˜ผ์ž ์นจ๋ฌต ์†์— ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ ์ค„ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์›ํ•  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ง“์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—˜๋ฆฌํ์™€ ์  ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ณ ๋…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์ธ ํ•ด๋‹ต์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์ ์ธ ๊ต๊ฐ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ๊ณผ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ถ์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œค๋ฆฌ์ , ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์„ ๋˜์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI๋Š” โ€˜์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒโ€™๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚˜์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€˜์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ด€๊ณ„โ€™๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์Šฌ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ž์˜ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ฑ์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ ์š”์•ฝ

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— โ€œ์ค‘๊ตญโ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฌธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ตญ์ œ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‘”๋‹ค. 1949๋…„ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น๊ณผ์˜ ๋‚ด์ „์—์„œ ํŒจํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋‹น์ด ๋Œ€๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ณธํ† ์˜ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ(PRC)๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ(ROC)์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด โ€œ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ 1945๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1971๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์œ ์—”์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์„ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ• ์ •๋ถ€๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์—๋Š” ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ โ€œ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๊ถŒโ€๋งŒ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋˜๊ณ  โ€œ๋Œ€๋งŒโ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” 2003๋…„์—์•ผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ƒ‰์ „ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์†Œ๋ จ ๊ฒฌ์ œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ , 1971๋…„ ์œ ์—”์ด ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์„ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ• ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ์œ ์—”์—์„œ ์ถ•์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๊ตญ์ œ ์ •์„ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ํ˜•์„ฑ์— ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์‹œ์‚ฌ์ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด โ€œํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€ ์›์น™์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ํ†ต์ผ์„ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ 2024๋…„ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์นฉ์˜ 90% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” TSMC์˜ ๋ณธ๊ฑฐ์ง€๋กœ์„œ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ๋ฐฉ์–ด์  ํƒœ๋„์™€๋„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๋ฅผ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” โ€˜ํ˜„์ƒ ์œ ์ง€โ€™๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์ปค์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™ ์›์น™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํ•œ ํƒœ๋„์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ž…์žฅ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋™๋งน ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ํ‘œ์ง€์˜ ๋ณ€์ฒœ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์—๋Š” โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒ(Taiwan)โ€˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ฐ€, 2003๋…„์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ์„œ์•ผ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ํ‘œ์ง€์— โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์ด ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ •์ฒดํ™”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ๋ž˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญ, ์ฆ‰ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ(Republic of China, ROC)โ€˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋Š” โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์€ โ€˜์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ(Peopleโ€™s Republic of China, PRC)โ€˜์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— ๊ทธ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์›์น™(One China Principle)โ€˜์„ ๊ณ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ผ์ผ๊นŒ์š”?

์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹ต์€ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์ด ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ์œ„์น˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์—์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ: ๋๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋‚ด์ „์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ

๊ตญ๊ณต๋‚ด์ „(Chinese Civil War)๊ณผ โ€˜์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญโ€™์˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ด์ฃผ

๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ์ถœํ˜„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” 1927๋…„, ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น(Chinese Communist Party)๊ณผ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋‹น(Chinese Nationalist Party) ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ”ผ๋น„๋ฆฐ๋‚ด ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ณต๋‚ด์ „(Chinese Civil War)์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 20๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ์ด ์ „์Ÿ์€ 1949๋…„ 10์›”, ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ง‰์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒจ๋ฐฐํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋‹น์€ ๋‹น์‹œ ์ผ๋ณธ ์‹๋ฏผ์ง€์˜€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ์ข…์ „ ํ›„ ์ค‘๊ตญ์— ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜๋œ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์„ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ›„ํ‡ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ดํ›„ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋‹น์˜ ์ง€๋„์ž ์žฅ์ œ์Šค(Chiang Kai-shek)๋Š” 1949๋…„ 12์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์„ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ์ง€๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ๊ณต์‚ฐ์ฃผ์˜์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋ณธํ† ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ฐฉํ•  ๋‚ ์„ ๊ฟˆ๊ฟจ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1949๋…„๊ณผ 1950๋…„ ์ดํ›„, ๋Œ€๋ฅ™์—๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉฐ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ๊ด€ํ• ๊ถŒ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ž์‹ ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์  ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์šฉ์–ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ์— ํ˜ผ๋ž€์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์ค‘๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ 1949๋…„ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ–‰๋œ ์ฒซ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ๋””์ž์ธ์—๋„ ๊ณ ์Šค๋ž€ํžˆ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ํ‘œ์ง€์—๋Š” โ€˜์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ(Passport of the Republic of China)โ€˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งŒ ๋ช…์‹œ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ, โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ƒ‰์ „๊ณผ ์œ ์—”(UN)์—์„œ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ด๋™: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™ ์ •์ฑ… ํ˜•์„ฑ

์œ ์—” ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ ํšŒ์›๊ตญ โ€˜์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญโ€™์˜ ์œ„์ƒ

์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ๊ฐ€๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋”ํ•ด, ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ(ROC)์ด ์œ ์—”(United Nations) ์ฐฝ๋ฆฝ ํšŒ์›๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ๊ณต๋‚ด์ „์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์ „์ธ 1945๋…„, ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์€ ์œ ์—” ์•ˆ์ „๋ณด์žฅ์ด์‚ฌํšŒ ์ƒ์ž„์ด์‚ฌ๊ตญ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ํš๋“ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์žฅ์ œ์Šค ๋‹น์‹œ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ง€๋„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „ ์ค‘ ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ตฐ ํŽธ์— ์„œ์„œ ์ผ๋ณธ์— ๋งž์„œ ์‹ธ์› ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐํ•ฉ๊ตญ์˜ ์ผ์›์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์€ ์œ ์—”์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ œ๋„์™€ ํ—Œ์žฅ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1945๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1971๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์œ ์—”์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์„ โ€˜์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ์ค‘ ๊ด€๊ณ„์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ์œ ์—” 2758ํ˜ธ ๊ฒฐ์˜์•ˆ

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ƒ‰์ „ ์‹œ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋„๋ž˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์š”๋™์น˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋ จ๊ณผ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ(PRC) ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์›ํ•ด์ง€์ž, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์†Œ๋ จ์„ ๋”์šฑ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆด ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์— ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์„œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ(ROC) ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์žก๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹(triangulation)์€ ์ ์  ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1971๋…„, ๋‹น์‹œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์•ˆ๋ณด๋ณด์ขŒ๊ด€์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ํ—จ๋ฆฌ ํ‚ค์‹ ์ €(Henry Kissinger)๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์„ ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ์— ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ดํ›„, ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ ๋‹‰์Šจ(Richard Nixon) ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ 20๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์™ธ๊ต์  ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ ๋์— ๊ณต์‚ฐ์ฃผ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ๊ธฐ, ์œ ์—”์€ 2758ํ˜ธ ๊ฒฐ์˜์•ˆ์„ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œ์ผœ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์„ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์  ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ์จ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์€ ์œ ์—”์—์„œ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žƒ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฒ ์ด์ง•(์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ)๊ณผ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด(๋ฏธ๊ตญ)์€ ์†Œ๋ จ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ณต๋™์˜ ์ ์„ ๋ณด์•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ๋„ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์˜ ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ œ๊ตญ์ฃผ์˜์  ์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, 1976๋…„ ๋งˆ์˜ค์ฉŒ๋‘ฅ(Mao Zedong)์ด ์‚ฌ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฉ์ƒค์˜คํ•‘(Deng Xiaoping)์ด ์ง‘๊ถŒํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŒŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ์••ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋งบ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์˜ค์ฉŒ๋‘ฅ ์‚ฌ๋ง 3๋…„ ํ›„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์„ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ• ์ •๋ถ€๋กœ ๊ณต์‹ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์ •์ฑ…(One China Policy)โ€˜์ด ํƒ„์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” โ€œํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ๋งŒ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ผ๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋ช…์‹œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ๋ถ€์ƒ๊ณผ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ๋””์ž์ธ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”

๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”์™€ โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒ์ธโ€™ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฐœํ˜„

1980๋…„๋Œ€์™€ 1990๋…„๋Œ€์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ง„ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒ์ธโ€™ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์ด ๋ถ€์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ 38๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ณ„์—„๋ น ํ•˜์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ์ดˆ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฆฌ๋ฉํ›„์ด(Lee Teng-hui) ์ดํ†ต์˜ ์ฝ”๋„ฌ๋Œ€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ

1995๋…„์—๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์ฐพ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉํ›„์ด(Lee Teng-hui) ์ดํ†ต(์•„์ง ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ถœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ „์ž„์ž์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ž„๋ช…๋œ ์ƒํƒœ)์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชจ๊ต์ธ ์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ์—ฐ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 1979๋…„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๋Œ€๋งŒ๊ณผ ๋‹จ๊ตํ•œ ์ด๋ž˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ง€๋„์ž๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์ฒซ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น์‹œ ๋นŒ ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด(Bill Clinton) ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์˜ ๋น„์ž ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์„ ๋ง‰์œผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์•…ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น์ด ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์›์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํžˆ ์ถ”์ง„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์›์€ ํด๋ฆฐํ„ด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋œป์„ ๊ฑฐ์Šค๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์˜ ์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋น„๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์€ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ(ROC)์„ โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ตญ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์‹œํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ • ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์ธ์ •์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ํ™˜์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ง€๋„์ž๋“ค์ด โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์€ โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋˜, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•ด์„์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ธก์€ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ๊ด€ํ• ๊ถŒ์ด ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์„ฌ๊ณผ ํŽ‘ํ›„, ๋งˆ์ญˆ, ์ง„๋จผ ๋“ฑ ์™ธ๊ณฝ ์„ฌ๋“ค์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋จ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ , ๋ณธํ† ์˜ ์ •๋ถ€๋กœ์„œ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์€ ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์›์น™โ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์œ„๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์›์น™โ€™์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ๊ณผ์˜ ํ†ต์ผ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉํ›„์ด ์ดํ†ต์˜ ์ ์  ๋” ๋…ธ๊ณจ์ ์ธ ์นœ(่ฆช)๋Œ€๋งŒ ๋…๋ฆฝ์  ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ธ ํ†ต์ผ์— ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๋ก ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๊ณ , 1995๋…„๊ณผ 1996๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์˜์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์ง€๋ฅผ ๊บพ์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ์˜๋„๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์€ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์—ญํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ณ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ํ•ญ๊ตฌ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ด ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์œ„ํ˜‘์€ โ€˜๊ตญ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ์ง‘ ํšจ๊ณผ(rally around the flag effect)โ€˜๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์˜ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๋†’์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ 1996๋…„, ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์ง์„ ์ œ ์ดํ†ต ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉํ›„์ด ์ดํ†ต์€ ์ถœ๋งˆํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹น์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒ(Taiwan)โ€˜์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋‹ค

์ดํ›„ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์€ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด ๊ตฌ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฉ€์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2000๋…„์—๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๋ฏผ์ง„๋‹น(Democratic Progressive Party, DPP) ์†Œ์†์˜ ์ฒœ์ˆ˜์ด๋ณœ(Chen Shui-bian)์„ ์ฒซ ์ดํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏผ์ง„๋‹น์€ ๋‹นํ—Œ์— ๋…๋ฆฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ด๋ง์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ •๋‹น์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฆฌ ์ดํ†ต์˜ ์ฝ”๋„ฌ ์—ฐ์„ค ๋‹น์‹œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ์„ ์ž๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์นญํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๋ฉด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒ์ธโ€™์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ •์น˜์ธ๋“ค์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ•  ๋•Œ์˜ ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”๋†“์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2002๋…„, ์ฒœ์ˆ˜์ด๋ณœ ์ดํ†ต์€ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— ์˜๋ฌธ โ€˜Taiwanโ€™์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2003๋…„, โ€˜Taiwanโ€™์ด ํ‘œ์ง€์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„ ์ฒซ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ฐœํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„๋กœ โ€˜Taiwanโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์— ๊ณ„์† ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธ€์ž ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ปค์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”์—๋Š” ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ์ด์œ ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์ด ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์ด ์•„๋‹˜์„ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๋Œ€๋งŒ(์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญ) ์—ฌ๊ถŒ์€ ๋น„๊ต์  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ํšจ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฉํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๋Œ€๊ฒฐ: โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™ ์›์น™๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜

์ค‘๊ตญ(PRC)์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ ฅ ์ฆ๋Œ€์™€ ์••๋ฐ• ๊ฐ•ํ™”

โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ธ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋”์šฑ ๋ถ€๊ฐ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์˜ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์ฃผ์˜์  ์ฃผ์žฅ๊ณผ โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญโ€™ ํ†ต์ผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ 2์œ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋Œ€๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งŽ์•„์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž๊ตญ ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด๋“ค์ด๋ ค ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์›์น™โ€™์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

25~30๋…„ ์ „์—๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ทจ์•ฝํ•œ ์ž…์žฅ์— ๋†“์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ(leverage)์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ 2026๋…„ 5์›”, ์ค‘๊ตญ์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ๊ณผ ์™ธ๊ต ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ธ ์—์Šค์™€ํ‹ฐ๋‹ˆ(Eswatini)๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋“  ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ฒ ํํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋Œ€๋งŒ: ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ์ค„ํƒ€๊ธฐ

์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ต์—ญ๊ตญ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ, ์‹œ์ง„ํ•‘(Xi Jinping) ์ฃผ์„์€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„(Donald Trump) ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ์ค‘ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ํ˜„์ƒ ์œ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์–‘๊ตญ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ต์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ œ์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ทจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ž์น˜(self-governance)์— ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ ๋…๋ฆฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ์น˜๋„ ์ทจํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์ด ๋„๋ฐœ์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์ž„์„ ์•Œ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ž์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ํ˜‘์ƒ ์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์นฉ์˜ 90% ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” TSMC(Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)์˜ ๋ณธ๊ฑฐ์ง€์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—๊ฒŒ ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋งŒํผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์„ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์•„์‹œ์•„-ํƒœํ‰์–‘ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์„ ๋ฐฉ์–ด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์ œํ•˜๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ, ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์žฌ๋ž˜์‹ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ž…์˜ 70% ์ด์ƒ์„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ: ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ์‚ฌ์ด

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๊ต์ฐจํฌํ™”(geopolitical crossfire)์˜ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ์— ๋†“์ธ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚ด์ „์˜ ํ˜๋ช…์  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์—ฐ๊ด€์ด ์—†๋Š”, ๋Œ€๋งŒ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ž๋ž€ ์„ธ๋Œ€๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋™์˜ ์—†์ด ๊ฒฐ์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ๋А๋‚๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์‹œ์ผ ๋‚ด์— ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋  ์กฐ์ง๋„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์€ ๋ฒ ์ด์ง•์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น(CCP)์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธˆ๊ธฐ์‹œ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์ด๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์›์ธ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ˜„์ƒ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ์  ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋ ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ์›์น˜ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋ก ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด๋‚˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น์˜ ํ†ต์ œ ๋˜ํ•œ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๋ก : ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•จ์˜ ๋„์ „

์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ โ€˜์ค‘๊ตญ์ด๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€?โ€˜๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ตญ์€ ์ •์น˜์  ์‹ค์ฒด์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋” ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•œ ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ํ†ต์ผ๊ณผ ํ†ต์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ๋”์šฑ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ทธ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•จ์€ ๋”์šฑ ํฐ ๋„์ „ ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์ค‘ํ™”์ธ๋ฏผ๊ณตํ™”๊ตญ์ด ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ด์ง์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด โ€˜ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์›์น™โ€™์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ•์ œํ• ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์„ ํƒํ• ์ง€๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋™๋งน, ํŠนํžˆ ๋Œ€๋งŒ์— ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋งŒ์˜ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ํ‘œ์ง€์— ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„ โ€˜์ค‘ํ™”๋ฏผ๊ตญโ€™๊ณผ โ€˜๋Œ€๋งŒโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, 70๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์ด์–ด์ ธ ์˜จ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ํ˜ผ๋ˆ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ง€์ •ํ•™์  ๋”œ๋ ˆ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ ์š”์•ฝ

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์š”์ธ์€ ์œ ์ „์ž, ์‹๋‹จ, ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ โ€˜์€ํ–‰ ์ž”๊ณ โ€™์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ€์œ ํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ด๊ณ , ์ด ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ์ ์  ๋” ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์†Œ๋“ ์ƒ์œ„ 1% ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ•˜์œ„ 1% ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช… ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” 14.6๋…„์œผ๋กœ, ์ด๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธด ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์™€ ๋งž๋จน๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์Œ์‹, ๋ณ‘์›, ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ง€, ๋ชธ์— ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ง์—…์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต์ด ๊ฒช๋Š” ์˜์–‘ ๋ถ€์กฑ, ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œ ์ง์—…, ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค, ์—ด์•…ํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋“ฑ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์š”์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€์กฐ๋œ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ์˜๊ตญ์˜ ํ™”์ดํŠธํ™€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ(Whitehall Study)๋Š” ์ง์—… ๊ณ„์ธต์ด ๋‚ฎ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์‚ฌ๋ง๋ฅ ์ด 3๋ฐฐ ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฐํ˜€๋ƒˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—…๋ฌด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ ๋ถ€์กฑ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๋งŒ์„ฑ์ ์ธ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒด์— ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์†์ƒ์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜๋ช…์˜ ๋ถˆํ‰๋“ฑ์€ ๋ถ€์˜ ๋ถˆํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์€ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ์›Œ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฒ„ํ•์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณต๋ฆฌ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ถ•์ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต์€ ์ผ์ฐ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ค„ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ์ ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„ ๋ณธ๋“œ(Baby Bonds)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์™„ํ™”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„ ๋ณธ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹ ์ƒ์•„์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ง€์› ํˆฌ์ž ๊ณ„์ขŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํ•™๋น„, ์‚ฌ์—… ์ž๊ธˆ, ์ฃผํƒ ๊ณ„์•ฝ๊ธˆ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œ๋„๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ์ž๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์›์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ •๋…„ ์—ฐ๋ น์„ ์ผ๊ด„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์œก์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ํž˜๋“  ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ์ง์—…๊ตฐ์— ๋” ํฐ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ฃผ์–ด ์ˆ˜๋ช… ๋ถˆํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง์—… ์œ ํ˜•์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์กฐ์ • ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ‡ด์ง ์—ฐ๋ น์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ด์ง€๋Š” ์œ ์ „ํ•™, ์‹๋‹จ, ํ˜น์€ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ โ€˜์€ํ–‰ ๊ณ„์ขŒโ€™๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ 40์„ธ ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์€ ํŒŒํ‚ค์Šคํƒ„์ด๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฌธ์žฅ์— ์ž ์‹œ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ด๋–ค ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ณด๋‹ค 1์ธ๋‹น ์˜๋ฃŒ๋น„ ์ง€์ถœ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งŽ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ†ต๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ์ตœ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ์‚ถ ์‚ฌ์ด์—๋Š” ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ์ค‘ ์ƒ์œ„ 1%์™€ ํ•˜์œ„ 1%์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช… ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ ค 14.6๋…„์— ๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธด ์ผ๋ณธ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช… ์ฐจ์ด์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Š” ๊ธฐํ›„, ์—ญ์‚ฌ, ๋ฐœ์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‘ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚˜๋ผ, ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ฐ™์€ ๋„์‹œ, ํ†ต๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์†Œ๋“ ๋ถ„ํฌ์˜ ์ตœํ•˜์œ„ ๊ณ„์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์†๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์€ ๋„๋•์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹ฌ๋„ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถ„์„์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•จ๋งŒ์„ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, โ€˜์‹œ๊ฐ„โ€™์„ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ณต๋ฆฌ(Compound Interest)๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฆ์‹์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ถ•์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‚œํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋” ์ผ์ฐ ์ฃฝ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋น„๋Œ€์นญ์„ฑ์€ ์ผ๋‹จ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ค‘๋‹จํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์•…์ˆœํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์™œ ๋ถ€๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋Š” ์™œ ์•…ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ์š”?


1. ๋ˆ์ด โ€˜์‹œ๊ฐ„โ€™์„ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์œ : ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถ„์„

๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์Œ์‹, ๋” ์ข‹์€ ๋ณ‘์›, ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๋™๋„ค์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 20~30๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ชธ์„ ๋ง๊ฐ€๋œจ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ง์—…์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ตœํ•˜์œ„ 20%์˜ ์ธ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ถŒ์žฅ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์‹๋‹จ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€์ฒ˜๋ถ„ ์†Œ๋“์˜ 50%๋ฅผ ์ง€์ถœํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋นˆ์•ฝํ•œ ์˜์–‘ ์ƒํƒœ๋Š” โ€˜๋ผ์ดํ”„์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์„ ํƒโ€™์ด๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค โ€˜์ƒ์กด์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œโ€™์— ๊ฐ€๊น์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ํ•ด, ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์€ ํก์—ฐ์œจ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ์˜ ๋‹ด๋ฐฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฅ ์€ ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์„ธ ๋ฐฐ์— ๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์€ ์‚ถ์ด ํž˜๋“ค์–ด์งˆ ๋•Œ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ๋‹จ์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹(coping mechanisms)๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๋ถ€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํƒ€๊ณ ๋‚œ ์ƒ๋ฌผํ•™์  ์ด์ ๋งˆ์ € ๋’ค์„ž์–ด ๋†“์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ณด๋‹ค ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋“ ๋ถ„ํฌ์˜ ์ตœํ•˜์œ„ ๊ณ„์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ 6๋…„ ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ์ƒ์œ„ ๊ณ„์ธต์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 1๋…„ ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ค„์–ด๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œ ์ง์—…, ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋“ค์˜ ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ๋ง ์›์ธ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ์ขŒ์šฐํ•œ๋‹ค: ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์  ์š”์ธ

์–ด๋””์— ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์— ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฐ์—… ์‹œ์„ค์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฒˆ์žกํ•œ ๋„๋กœ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์˜ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ์€ ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ณณ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ธก์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋‚˜์œ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉฐ ํ˜ธํก๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜ ๋ฐœ๋ณ‘๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ์„œ๋ถ€์˜ ์ผ„์‹ฑํ„ด ์•ค ์ฒผ์‹œ(Kensington and Chelsea)์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๋žญ์ปค์…” ํ•ด์•ˆ์˜ ๋ธ”๋ž™ํ’€(Blackpool)์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ช… ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์•ฝ 10๋…„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ โ€˜์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€โ€™๋งŒ์„ ์ธก์ •ํ•  ๋ฟ, โ€˜์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€โ€™๋Š” ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ˆ˜๋ช…(Healthy Life Expectancy)โ€˜์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ฆฌ์น˜๋จผ๋“œ ์–ดํฐ ํ…œ์ฆˆ(Richmond upon Thames)์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์€ ํ•˜ํ‹€๋ฆฌ(Hartley)์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ 20๋…„ ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ์ ์€ ์˜๊ตญ์ด ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(Universal Healthcare System)์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ์ž„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ตœ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ์ฝœ๋กฌ๋น„์•„ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€˜์—ฌ์œ โ€™๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์žฅ์ˆ˜: ์‹œ๊ฐ„์  ์š”์ธ

๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ง์—…, ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ต๋Œ€ ๊ทผ๋ฌด, ๊ธด ํ†ต๊ทผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์–ฝ๋งค์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” โ€˜์ž์œ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„(discretionary hours)โ€˜์ด ๋” ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์†Œ๋“์ธต ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ถˆ๊ทœ์น™ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋†’์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์šด๋™์ด๋‚˜ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์—ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ํ‰์ƒ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์Œ“์ด๋ฉด, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋” ์งง์€ ์‚ถ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์–‘๊ทนํ™”

์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์ธ ์œ„์— ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋”ํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋“ค(์˜๊ตญ, ํ˜ธ์ฃผ, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค, ์บ๋‚˜๋‹ค ๋“ฑ)์—์„œ๋Š” ์†Œ๋“๊ณผ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์˜์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ช… ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ขํžˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์—†์• ์ง€๋Š” ๋ชปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋ถ€์œ ์ธต์€ ์‚ฌ์„ค ๋ณดํ—˜(private insurance)์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋‹จ์ถ•, ์ „๋ฌธ์˜์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ, ์กฐ๊ธฐ ์ง„๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, 8๊ฐœ์›”์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ์•”์„ 3๋‹จ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ 1๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” โ€˜๋‘ ์†๋„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(two-speed system)โ€˜์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ณ‘์›์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ˆ์„ ๋ฒŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ณต ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์žƒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์„ค ๋ณดํ—˜์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ๋ˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋กœ ์œ ๋„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋„ ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ง„๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‚ฌ์„ค ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์–ป์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„์‹ธ๊ณ  ๋น„ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‘๊ธ‰์‹ค(emergency room)๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2๋…„ ์ „์— ์ง„๋‹จ๋˜์—ˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ์งˆ๋ณ‘์„ ์น˜๋ฃŒํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ถ€์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ถ€์™€ ์‚ฌ๋ง๋ฅ (mortality) ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋„“์€ ์ด์œ  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


2. โ€˜์ง€์œ„ ์ฆํ›„๊ตฐโ€™๊ณผ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ

์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ˆ˜๋ช…์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ „๋ถ€๋Š” ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ง์—… ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ, ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‘ ๋ช…์˜ ๊ณต๋ฌด์›์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚˜์ด์— ์‚ฌ๋งํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1960๋…„๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜, ์˜๊ตญ์˜ ์—ญํ•™์ž ๋งˆ์ดํด ๋งˆ๋ฉง(Michael Marmot)์€ ์˜๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€์ธ ํ™”์ดํŠธํ™€(Whitehall)์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 18,000๋ช…์˜ ๊ณต๋ฌด์›๋“ค์„ ์ถ”์ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋นˆ๊ณค์ธต์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ณ ์šฉ, ๊ทœ์น™์ ์ธ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  NHS(๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋ณด๊ฑด์„œ๋น„์Šค)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๊ถŒ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ผํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฐ™์€ ๋„์‹œ์— ์‚ด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ๋ฉง์€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ๊ณ„์ธต์˜ ์ตœ