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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 30, 2018 10:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Electoral College and 1177 BCE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:02 AM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>>…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… John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Eh, I have heard that argument and mostly discount it. If the lower classes are doing pretty well and improving, it becomes more and more irrelevant how rich the top end gets. We don’t really even know, other than a reality show often devoured by the lower classes called “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Eh, I never watched it, but from what I have seen, the super rich get along fine with the lower classes. I see no bitterness there, nothing coming even close to motivating them to storm the Bastille. They do need jobs however, and the scene there might be improving for now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>