<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4">I don't understand how a logical person can expect this trend to continue for much longer without blood in the streets. One way or another this will change. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well, it's the way of the world, isn't it? The big fish eat the little fish (recollections of Ben Franklin's autobiography here). Start a business, do great, get bought out unless you want to be Sam Walton.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What is to stop that? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:45 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:02 AM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></span><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></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"><i>> The only thing that keeps "war mode" turned off is rising or at least steady income per capita. That's rare for any length of time in the past.</i></blockquote></div></span><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">With improved technology I see no reason income per capita will not continue but that's not what determines social stability, its the gap between the richest and the poorest. And starting about 25 years ago all over the world that gap started to grow and it's not just growing its accelerating and doing so at a alarming rate. There are about 7.2 billion people on the Earth and in 2010 the 388 richest people had as much wealth as the poorest half of them, that's 3.6 billion people. In 2014 it was 85. In 2016 it was 62. In 2017 it was 8. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">In the USA it is even worse, in 2017 just the 3 richest people had as much wealth as the poorest 160 million. I don't understand how any logical person can look at those statistics and not shudder, and I don't understand how a logical person can expect this trend to continue for much longer without blood in the streets. One way or another this will change. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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