From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 13:12:50 MDT
In a message dated 8/23/2003 1:25:34 PM Central Standard Time,
barbaralamar@sanmarcos.net writes: Just my own observation, no hard statistics -- looks to
me as though people are being sorted out, by various market and political
forces, into two major groups -- the smart and flexible; and the rest.
Barbara,
Yep, you have taken a look around and came to the correct conclusions.
The BELL CURVE and an author named Richard Epstein from the University of
Chicago's School of Law have came to pretty much the same conclusion.
Herrnstein and Murray in TBC concluded the bifurcation is due to our economy becoming
increasingly high tech and in turn lifting up the top 5% of the Bell Curve for
IQ. In the last couple of chapters they seem to be describing a distopia
(spelling??) for the bottom 5% of that same Bell Curve. Richard Epstein see
pretty much the same distopia forming at the bottom of our society. RE sees the
complexity of our legal system as one of the major culprits.
In the meantime some folks look at America's prison population and
wonder what is going on? Part of the answer, part, is due no doubt to our
increasingly high tech economy and the increased competition of illegal immigrants
is squeezing our less fortunate citizens out of employment and onto the dole or
eventually into crime and imprisonment.
Ron h
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