[ExI] article highly recommended

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 23:06:48 UTC 2018


 even the slightest aroma of socialism will have to be modified because
people get very angry and do stupid dangerous things when they lose their
job if there is no economic safety net to fall back on.

 John K Clark
I don't follow this.  What we need is a separation of socialism, which we
have now in health, cops, fire, etc. and Socialism which takes over the
means of production and has been a disaster ("Disaster, Hell, it damn near
killed her!") everywhere it's been tried.

I don't think these socialists are Socialists, as above  - do you?

I disagree.  I think Paris Hilton is probably regarded as a buffoon
(buffoonness?  buffoonette? buffoonenne?) by the top New York socialites.
But anyway, I think social rank rises with intellectual accomplishment.
Ph. D.s, for example, are clearly middle class economically, but upper
class socially.  At least it's been that way.

bill w

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 4:24 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 12:58 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  Intellectual ranks are always going to be apparent to just about
>> everyone.
>
>
> Yes because its obvious that some people are smarter than others, however
> intellectual rank does not correlate very well with social rank. Honey
> Boo Boo and Paris Hilton outrank most Nobel Prize winners and all Field
> Medal winners in the social hierarchy; there are no paparazzi camped out in
> front of a mathematician's house regardless of how smart he is.
>
> > My question is: are the two correlated?  Social and intellectual?
>
>
> Generally I don't think so, at least not directly. Social rank is
> correlated with power and power is correlated with wealth, but intelligence
> is not strongly correlated with either. The wealth gap between today's CEO
> and the average worker in one of his factories is not 10 times what it was
> in 1978 because he's 10 times smarter than the CEO back then, its because
> the skills of the average worker are 10 times more common and thus less
> valued do to advances in technology. And this is just the start, its only a
> matter of time before machines are better at doing every job than any
> human, and that includes the job of being a CEO. Well before we reach that
> point the traditional libertarian repugnance of anything with even the
> slightest aroma of socialism will have to be modified because people get
> very angry and do stupid dangerous things when they lose their job if there
> is no economic safety net to fall back on.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
>
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