[ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE

[John Clark]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:43 PM Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

>  *it makes me no poorer if my neighbor has twice as much money as I do*


Real hourly wages in the USA peaked more than 45 years ago, in January 1973
the average person made $4.03 a hour which adjusted for inflation would be
equivalent to $23.68 worth of purchasing power today, but today the average
hourly wage is only $22.65. And yet the country is vastly wealthier than it
was in January 1973. If anybody thinks this trend can continue indefinitely
without horrific social upheaval they are deluding themselves.  I said it
before I'll say it again, one way or another *this will not stand*.

> *even if you could convince me that wealth disparity is a real problem,
> what's your proposed solution?*


I have learned something in the last few months, nobody around here really
wants me to answer that. This is not the Extropian list of old, these days
if I even attempted to address that question I would be attacked by nearly
everybody on the list and be accused of spounting heresy and making
shitposts.

 John K Clark
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