[ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap

 

 

 

 

 

>…As with so many things, it depends on what you're wanting to use the answer to that question for.

 

>…If you're looking to assign blameworthiness in a deontological moral framework, then objectively, they're rich…

 

Ja, OK.  If a mob is looting, it is already clear to me they are to blame.  That’s the easy part.

 

 

>…But if you want to model and predict their behavior, you'll get much better results modeling them as poor…

 

I would model them as crazy.  Somebody has a $300k Rolls, and they are risking that to grab a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand bucks worth of loot?  Does that make sense to you?  Doesn’t to me either.

 

spike

 

 

 

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