<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr">On Mar 1, 2019, at 4:58 PM, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] The Great Gatsby Curve<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 5:35 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></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"><span class="gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>> </span></i></span><i>Did that 4.5 billion dollars go away? Where is it now?</i><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…The only difference is building pyramids or digging holes would be better public relations than a insanely expensive pleasure craft…</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Sure, but of course the Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the pyramids were NOT built by slaves. That’s a fiction that lives on. See, for example:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html">https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html</a></div><div><br></div><div>No doubt, the fiction will live, but doing my part to make it go away. ;)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></p></div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></blockquote><style><!--
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