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

[Dylan Distasio]

You're right that I'm probably being a little unfair, as I don't confound
it with the requirements for the hard science Nobels.  I'd put ones for
Economics somewhere in the middle.

And no, I don't think differently than you on the question you asked,
especially considering how quickly they awarded him with it.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 4:52 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, my esteem for that organization was
> greatly reduced.  dylan
>
> the Peace Prize has always been a political tool, unlike,I hope, the other
> awards.  Obama got it because he was black, excuse me, Black.  Does anyone
> think any differently?  bill w
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 2:37 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I realize we're headed into dangerous waters here, John, and I don't feel
>> like either of us wants to be hit with the iron fist wrapped in velvet of
>> the anonymous mod here, so I will close with two thoughts.
>>
>> Krugman's Nobel in the dismal science was awarded before he lost himself
>> in his politics.   When Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, my esteem for that
>> organization was greatly reduced.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:10 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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