From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 22:36:46 MDT
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:02 PM
--- Brett Paatsch <paatschb@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
[Brett] Another duty of the federal government is the 'general welfare'
of the economy, i.e. its economic vitality and long term stability (i.e.
NOT nanny statism). If high paying skilled manufacturing jobs are being
shipped overseas or replaced by automation, leaving just poorly paid
burger flipping jobs in their place, this is a constitutional concern of
the federal government because it deals in not just the long term
economic stability of the nation, but its political stability as well.
[Brett] Even worse, a government that allows the export of not just its
high paying manufacturing jobs overseas, but its higher paying knowledge
jobs overseas is asking for only one possible result: the reinstitution
of feudalism, because all that will be left are wealthy stockholders and
lots and lots of burger flippers and blue jeans sales people, and
garbage collectors, etc etc etc. i.e. an aristocracy of educated elites
and a majority of uneducated and unskilled wage slaves.
[Me] Buckle up bub; 'cause thats precisely where we're headed.
They had a *REALLY* interesting piece of research done recently;
it had to do with income distribution versus percentage of the
population...
apparently everywhere else in the world, the top x% of the population
controlled a significant amount of the [fiscal] resources.... and the US
had
a significantly larger X than europe or other countries...Pretty much
the
exception to the rule.
Anyways; it turns out there was a direct analogue
for the computational problem which had already been solved [or rather
directly observed and studied] in physics which explained why the
tendency
for the rich to become ultra-rich (control all the resources)...
Of course, they were puzzled by the US score [histogram]; that is until
they
computed the score using figures in the 1950's :) Apparently we're in
the
decline (or rather the slide) into exactly the same situation that
plagues
every other country.
omard-out
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