From fork-admin@xent.com Sun Sep 22 21:57:43 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631F116F03 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:57:42 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:57:42 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8MF0sC05387 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:00:54 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A07E72940A2; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from sunserver.permafrost.net (u172n16.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.172.16]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C99329409A for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.179] (helo=permafrost.net) by sunserver.permafrost.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17t84r-0001m6-00; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:51:17 -0300 Message-Id: <3D8DDBC8.8030602@permafrost.net> From: Owen Byrne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Owen Byrne Cc: Gary Lawrence Murphy , "Mr. FoRK" , fork@xent.com, Digital Bearer Settlement List Subject: Re: sed /s/United States/Roman Empire/g References: <979BE8FE-CCF6-11D6-817E-000393A46DEA@alumni.caltech.edu> <3D8DCF62.4040809@permafrost.net> Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------090600030109070305070809" Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:03:36 -0300 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,JAVASCRIPT_URI,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: --------------090600030109070305070809 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Owen Byrne wrote: > R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> At 10:32 AM -0400 on 9/21/02, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> Cool --- I wasn't aware that the US had lifted it's population out >>> of poverty! When did this happen? I wonder where the media gets the >>> idea that the wealth gap is widening and deepening... >>> >> >> >> All the world loves a smartass... >> >> :-). >> >> Seriously. Look at he life expectancy and human carrying capacity of >> this continent before the Europeans got here. Look at it now. Even >> for descendants of the original inhabitants. Even for the descendents >> of slaves, who were brought here by force. >> >> More stuff, cheaper. That's progress. >> >> Poverty, of course, is not relative. It's absolute. Disparity in >> wealth has nothing to do with it. >> >> It's like saying that groups have rights, when, in truth, only >> individuals do. Like group rights, "disparity" in wealth is >> statistical sophistry. >> >> >> Besides, even if you can't help the distribution, industrial wealth >> is almost always transitory, and so is relative poverty, even when >> there are no confiscatory death-taxes. The 20th anniversary Forbes >> 400 just came out, and only a few tens of people are still there >> since 1982, a time which had significantly higher marginal taxes on >> wealth, income, and inheritance than we do now. More to the point, >> they're nowhere near the top. >> >> Lovely quote from the Forbes 400 list: "and not a single Astor, Vanderbilt or Morgan rates a mention on the current Forbes Four Hundred. " But you have to studiously ignore the 4 Rockefellers, 3 Gettys, 3 Hearsts, Fords, Kelloggs, Wrigleys, and so on. There are more self-made people on the list than I previously alluded to - I made a mistake. Most of them seem to have Ivy League educations, or are Ivy League dropouts, suggesting to me that they weren't exactly poor to start with. Some of them have lovely self-made stories like: #347, Johnston, Summerfield K Jr track this personTrack This Person | See all Bacon Makers 70 , self made *Source: Food , Coca-Cola* (quote , executives , news ) Net Worth: *$680 mil* returnee Hometown: Chattanooga , TN *Marital Status:* married , 5 children Grandfather James and partner landed first Coca-Cola bottling franchise in 1899. Company passed down 3 generations to Summerfield 1950s. Became largest independent Coke bottler. Merged with Coca-Cola Enterprises 1991. (...by a compensation committee) Owen --------------090600030109070305070809--