From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:24 AM To: everything-list Subject: [SPAM]Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality I don´t believe in anything that SCIAM says except in hard sciences. And event in that I have my doubts These kind of publications lost their credibility time ago. Well, and many pseudoscience departments in the universities. They are nothing but propaganda organs driven by power and money Well not directly power and money, but leftist fanatism as a cover for the seek of power and money. And it is with this ad hominem attack on the alleged slant of the source that Alberto chooses to ignore an (easily fact checkable) graph that illustrates how income distribution has changed over the last hundred years. You display such power of intellect…. Amazing! also very Ostrich-like; keep your head down Alberto, the sand is good for your brain. Chris 2015-04-01 7:56 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected]>: From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 9:26 PM To: EveryThing Subject: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality The SciAm article doesn't even begin to describe how great the inequality is. Like most statistical presentations it divides the population into quintiles. But that hides the fact that is not the to 20 to 1 percentile that hold the wealth, it is the tope 1% and even just the top 0.1% And that graph describes the source of so many of our social ills; this high degree of income distortion -- in terms of the US being an outlier, on the global distribution of developed economies -- is the fundamental driver of pretty much everything else going wrong with this country; from crumbling infrastructure, to crumbling education, to crumbling living standards. Could this be what life is like in a crumbling empire, far out into imperial overreach, stretched thin across the globe, in the vast archipelago of bases – including places of true logistical nightmare, like Afghanistan (the logistical nightmare of nightmares…there is no feasible way to get the heavy armor out of Afghanistan, except through Russia, with Pakistan definitely not wanting mass transiting US armor. The cost of bearing empire is breaking our backs, and with each successive cycle of disaster capitalism – creative destruction, right-sizing, out-sourcing etc. the empire is in a race to scraping bottom, as all empires do. Inside the bubble of power the mantra remains “we make history” (as once boasted by one famous neocon), but on the ground it is not all going as planned… though who is going to ever bring the emperor the bad news… any volunteers? Naturally we don’t have an emperor (yet), but we do have a powerful deeply rooted patrician aristocracy that has been ascendant here for the last four decades. Will it swing back the other way, as it has in the past – such as with the New Deal, or earlier with Teddy Roosevelt’s trust busting of Standard Oil; or is this just the prelude to… welcome to tomorrow? Chris http://www.voxeu.org/article/exploding-wealth-inequality-united-states Brent http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: [SPAM]Re: [SPAM]Re: Economic inequality
'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:31:08 -0700
