From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 09:13:11 MDT
Whoops u are correct sir :P
My sincerest apologies :)
Omar
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From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Brett Paatsch
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:47 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Food labels and consumer information (was Re: Protesters
swarm Calif. biotech meeting)
I didn't write what your attributing to me, I think
it may have been Mike.
Brett
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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:
> [Mike] 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.
>
> [Mike] 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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