[ExI] kruger dunning again

[Darin Sunley]

A huge amount of American grassroots political rhetoric makes enormously
more sense when you realize that a significant number of lower-income
Americans actually genuinely believe that the billionaire class,
collectively, has enough money to give American citizen tens of thousands
of dollars, and possibly not even miss it.

This was made obvious a few months ago when a newscaster overestimated
Bloomberg's campaign spending (or underestimated the American population,
or both) by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude, and it went unnoticed by the
overwhelming majority of the media class, and their audience.

If you genuinely believe that, then yes, it follows without a lot of mental
gymnastics that the giga-rich /actually are/ reptilians in human skin [or
may as well be] playing games with the lives of billions for profit and
perverted fun.

Innumeracy may be the root, if not of all evil, at least of all discontent.

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] kruger dunning again
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> >… Surveys show that about 30% of Americans believe that a vaccine exists
> but it is being withheld, and that a cure for the virus exists but is being
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> Ja that whole narrative is being fed by the case load in China falling to
> zero.  I have my notion on what is causing that: they lie.  If one accepts
> their word on it, then we get to pick an explanation, none of which are
> very plausible.  Their strict lockdown is working far better than any other
> countries doing similar measures (quite dubious), they have some kind of
> genetic-based immunity (we know they don’t) the virus loves communists
> (doubt that one) any one of a number of similarly suspect theories, or they
> must have discovered a vaccine or a cure.
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> Given all those, I suspect they are lying with their numbers.  Reasoning:
> even if they did discover a cure, they would still have cured cases, or if
> a vaccine, they couldn’t immunize 1.4 billion people that fast.
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> Given those choices, I see why 30% of Americans believe that a vaccine
> exists, but we don’t have it here.
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> >…Now if true these would be earth-shaking facts and Hell to pay…
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> Indeed?  What hell is China going to pay, after we already know they kept
> the outbreak secret until it could spread to the whole planet?
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> >…It make me wonder what would have happened if owning property was a
> prerequisite of voting.
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> Owning property doesn’t make one smart.  Evidence would be to ask
> respondents if they own property, then see what percentage thinks a secret
> C-19 cure exists.
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> If owning property ever became a prerequisite for voting, oh mercy that
> would be a grand opportunity to make a buttload of money.
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> I co-own some “property” in West Virginia with no road to it.  My property
> taxes are under 3 dollars a year on that.  It has no zoning and no
> restrictions from sub-dividing it, as far as we know.  We could study the
> definition of the term “property” then figure out how many separate piece
> of “property” could be created and sold per square foot.
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