[ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't understand how a logical person can expect this trend to continue
for much longer without blood in the streets. One way or another this will
change.

 John K Clark

Well, it's the way of the world, isn't it?  The big fish eat the little
fish (recollections of Ben Franklin's autobiography here).  Start a
business, do great, get bought out unless you want to be Sam Walton.

What is to stop that?

bill w

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:45 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:02 AM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *> The only thing that keeps "war mode" turned off is rising or at
>> least steady income per capita.  That's rare for any length of time in the
>> past.*
>
>
> With improved technology I see no reason income per capita will not
> continue but that's not what determines social stability, its the gap
> between the richest and the poorest.  And starting about 25 years ago all
> over the world that gap started to grow and it's not just growing its
> accelerating and doing so at a alarming rate. There are about 7.2 billion
> people on the Earth and in  2010 the 388 richest people had as much wealth
> as the  poorest half of them, that's 3.6 billion people. In 2014 it was 85.
> In 2016 it was 62. In 2017 it was 8.
>
> In the USA it is even worse, in 2017 just the 3 richest people had as much
> wealth as the poorest 160 million. I don't understand how any logical
> person can look at those statistics and not shudder, and I don't understand
> how a logical person can expect this trend to continue for much longer
> without blood in the streets. One way or another this will change.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
>
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