[ExI] Fwd: G.D.P. and the meaning of life

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 19:09:01 UTC 2020


On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:48 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> As usual, Krugman has his head planted squarely up his backside in
> regard to both issues discussed.  *
>

Paul Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2008,
and Nobel Prizes are not usually given out to people who have their heads
up their ass.

*> As far as life expectancy goes, you can thank Perdue pharmaceuticals for
> a significant drop in it in the US, along with rising suicides*
>

And nobody can win a Nobel prize if the numbers don't add up in their
theory, and in your theory as stated in the above the numbers just don't
add up.


> > *due in part to a decades long hollowing out of the American middle
> class *
>

If that is true there must be a reason for the hollowing out of the middle
class, and I'm sure the fact that the real earning power of the middle
class has not increased in decades must've had something to do with it.

> *Trump bears little responsibility for either set of statistics, but
> Krugman is a long time member of the Orange Man Bad  / TDS posse*
>

There's a lot I'd like to say about that and about He Who Must Not Be Named,
but unfortunately I'm not allowed to.

John K Clark
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