[Bungleau]

Hmmm... where does the cycle begin and end? People leave a place for opportunity, and begin to make the most of it. They succeed. They tell their friends back home that they should come over too. The friends, even though they may not have been as motivated to succeed or as willing to take risks, do. They pass the word along.

With each succeeding passing, you get people less and less motivated, less and less interested in taking the chances to be successful. It's not that there aren't motivated people, but their numbers dwindle because they're already there.

To try to break the cycle, people in the current land of opportunity try to make sure others who want to come in realize what opportunity means, and what's involved. They enact programs to condition people to appreciate the land, and establish quotas and criteria for entry. Anger and frustrations rise higher and higher on both sides...

Repeat until people start leaving that place for another land of opportunity... and start all over again.