Re: Food labels and consumer information (was Re: Protesters swarm Calif. biotech meeting)

From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 00:47:24 MDT

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    I didn't write what your attributing to me, I think
    it may have been Mike.

    Brett

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Paul Grant" <shade999@optonline.net>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:36 PM
    Subject: RE: Food labels and consumer information (was Re: Protesters swarm
    Calif. biotech meeting)

    > 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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