<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 09:36:33PM -0600, Kelly Anderson wrote:</div><div class="im">> I understand. I reserve the right to reject your reality and substitute my<br></div><div class="im">
> own.<br>
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</div>If you keep doing that you'll wind up alone in a room.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As long as we aren't in the room together... ;-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Other than advertising, I know of no really big revenue stream for Google.<br>
> Would you please enlighten me? My privacy?? Don't know how they monetize<br>
> that yet.<br>
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</div>How much is your freedom worth in a fascist state? Please put it that<br>
in exact dollar and cents values.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>$2,350,000.00</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> There are rocket people here. They seem to be relatively optimistic... but<br>
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</div>I'm just an egg, but I understand the economics of mass transfer in<br>
the solar system, and our ability to boostrap autonomous fabrication<br>
capacities in remote locations, which is nonexistent. You want kilotons<br>
of cheap metal from lightminutes away deorbited and semi-soft landed<br>
in three decades.<br>
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Sure, if Singularity lands. Should be any day now.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not saying it will happen, but if there is a sufficiently painful shortage of key metals, it could happen.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Sadly no, since we have so many clever monkeys who are busy caring for the<br>
> monkeys that won't get off their furry butts.<br>
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</div>So you agree that mere cleverness of a tiny fraction is insufficient,<br>
if the majority remain engaged in dysfunctional, long-term suicidal behavior.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Encouraged by their governments. Yes it is insufficient in the face of widespread suicidal behavior. That being said, I don't see driving around in cars to be widespread suicidal behavior.</div>
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<div class="im">> Ooooh. I'm so scared. Wealth building in our past? Are you mad?<br>
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</div>Funny, I think you're stark hopping mad, but it seems the feeling is<br>
mutual. We can't be possibly both right. So one of us has a much<br>
greater disconnect from reality that the other.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is CLEARLY the case.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> I've known many rich people myself. None of them are sitting on their ass<br>
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</div>Anecdote.<br>
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> or their money the way you seem to think they do. All of them are busy<br>
> investing or building something. Maybe there is something different about<br>
> rich people in Utah than in other places, but I rather doubt it. Would you<br>
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</div>Definitely anecdote.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Granted, its anecdotal.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"> like to pull a number out of your butt to back up your view of capital<br>
> amassment?<br>
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> Even rich people who do sit on their asses have money men who invest for<br>
> them. They don't buy millions of dollars worth of savings bonds for heck<br>
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</div>You're obviously clueless about basic mechanisms of wealth transfer<br>
and trends in social stratification.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I know the rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. Give me a republican president, senate and house, and we'll reverse that trend in America. Give me Libertarian all three and it will explode!</div>
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<div class="im">> sake. It is ridiculous to say that rich folk's money doesn't do anything.<br>
> Numbers please.<br>
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</div>No. You point me to peer-reviewed publications proving your point.<br>
Nature/Science should be a good first start. Put up, or shut up.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok, how stuff works isn't exactly peer reviewed, but I'm only using one number, and even if it is off by a bit, it makes my point.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/question241.htm">http://www.howstuffworks.com/question241.htm</a><br></div>From the headline, it states that the New York Stock Exchange has stocks valued at $15 trillion total. That is $15 trillion dollars that is working for the good of the economy. How much of that $15 trillion dollars do you suppose belongs to rich people? A third, half? If the rich are getting richer, then that number, whatever it is, is likely going up.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">According to:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html">http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:17.59375px">in 2008, only 19% of the income reported by the 13,480 individuals or families making over $10 million came from wages and salaries. See Norris, 2010, for more details. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:17.59375px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:16.125px">Norris, F. (2010, July 24). </span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/business/economy/24charts.html" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:16.125px">Off the Charts: In '08 Downturn, Some Managed to Eke Out Millions.</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:16.125px"> </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:16.125px">New York Times</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:16.125px">, p. B-3.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.666666984558105px;line-height:17.59375px"><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:14.857142448425293px;line-height:17.589284896850586px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif">The New York Times isn't peer reviewed... but a pretty reliable source...</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:14.857142448425293px;line-height:17.589284896850586px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:14.857142448425293px;line-height:17.589284896850586px">So we have to assume the rest is primarily capital gains. You only get capital gains if you have your money invested in SOMETHING. Clearly someone is investing their money, not stuffing it into mattresses.<br>
</span></font><div><br></div><div>So the rich assist everyone by investing their money. If you don't think they do, you're uninformed. If they don't invest it, they spend it. That pumps the economy, which you claim they aren't doing. I just don't understand your point that money belonging to the rich doesn't benefit the economy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>