From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 00:47:24 MDT
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
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Jul 28 2003 - 00:53:01 MDT