[ExI] a good laugh

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 19:19:15 UTC 2021


grammar guy - some would argue that 'unique' takes no qualifiers.    bill w

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 2:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] a good laugh
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> >… The value of a Ukrainian worker's labor 6 months earlier, placed in a
> store of value, did not suddenly become 37 times lower than e.g. the
> equivalent labor of a Polish worker, just because the Ukranian government
> made some stupid policy decisions and emonstrated itself to be
> nontrustworthy… Darin
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> Ja.
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> Hi Darin, hyperinflation makes winners and losers.  For instance, there
> are Ukrainians who labored and struggled and saved for years or decades,
> they are old and tired, then suddenly their carefully horded savings are
> washed away in a flash flood of inflation.  They became completely
> dependent on their government for survival.
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> But my newlywed friends from Ukraine in 1993 had no savings and both had
> freshly-minted PhDs in particle physics from the U of Kiev.  Their careers
> stretched out ahead of them.
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> With nothing to hold them in bankrupt Ukraine, they left and went to work
> in Europe, bouncing around here and there, accumulating wealth and
> remembering the lessons learned in the Ukrainian hyperinflation.
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> My son’s friend was born in 2006.  Both mother and son had medical
> problems.  The free medical system in the country where they lived nearly
> killed them both.  When he was age 2, his father took a temporary duty on
> the east coast in the USA.  He loved it here, so he asked his bride to come
> over.  She did, with no intentions of staying.
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> Her version of the story is that he took her out to a restaurant, got down
> on one knee and proposed they move to the states, which was far more
> elaborate a proposal than he had made when they became engaged.  His
> sincerely exceeded anything she had seen in their 12 years of married
> life.  She didn’t want to stay, but (according to her story) it was the
> best steak she had ever tasted in her life (she is a foodie (and a most
> excellent cook.))  She reluctantly agreed to stay.  They were naturalized a
> few years later and moved to California where their son started school.
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> Now, she and her husband are merit badge counselors for our scout troop,
> where they teach Citizenship in the World.  They are a most unique couple
> who have traveled the world extensively and have lived under communism,
> socialism and capitalism.
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