Andrew Gelman's blog recalled these graphics from 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html, which argue that economics and class don't entirely cover the problem. Also pretty neat graphics.
-- rec -- On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 9:39 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > > > You will recognize this mood. I have come to the conclusion that being > discriminated against and therefor poor, in our society, is a role, a > function that needs to be fulfilled. It’s a job. It is impossible to be > rich if somebody else is not poor. (I mean, how else would one know?) > Being poor is nasty hard work, but somebody has to do it. So, my solution > is to pay people to be poor. How much should we pay them. Well, for this, > we need to set up a government agency, NIESE, The National Institute for > Economic and Social equity, pronounced, of course, “nice.” This agency > set’s up Disparity Observatories, all over the country that monitor > economic success in terms of every imaginable individual human trait. > Then, at tax time, a multivariate analysis assigns to each taxpayer a > degree of discrimination and the government sends a bill or a payment, > accordingly. In a pretty short time, income can no longer be predicted on > the basis of sex, gender, age, ethnicity, skin color, or prior condition of > servitude. If a formerly poor person’s allocation gets sufficiently large, > we might send them a letter thanking them for their service as poor people, > and wishing them well in their new employment. > > > > Ok. That’s solved. What else do you want to talk about? > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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