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Comment on The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 1: Bigotry by The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 2: Unsympathetic » CK MacLeod's

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:33:33 +0000

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Comment on The Marriage of Equality and Inequality (Prologue) by The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 2: Unsympathetic » CK MacLeod's

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:29:33 +0000

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Comment on Wall Archive by fuster

fuster — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:12 +0000

Heck, miggs, that’s so minor compared to this………

“I can’t even believe we won, to be honest with you,” BasSie said.

ticker-tape parade is being planned

Comment on Let them eat flat screens by fuster

fuster — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:41:42 +0000

Siri can be a real helper……

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/science/bodies-inert-they-moved-a-robot-with-their-minds.html?hp

Comment on The Marriage of Equality and Inequality (Prologue) by The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 1: Bigotry » CK MacLeod's

The Marriage of Equality and Inequality – 1: Bigotry » CK MacLeod's — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:12:33 +0000

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Comment on Let them eat flat screens by CK MacLeod

CK MacLeod — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:10:14 +0000

You mean in the sense that the crisis of the late ’70s was handled by putting the US economy as a whole on the credit card?

Just speculating here, but we can use Kuznicki’s idea of “real” progress – essentially technological progress replacing relative economic progress, to outline the deal for the middle class: security plus enhanced consumption in exchange for frozen incomes, and static or negative asset accumulation (debt instead of wealth). As long as “we” get that, then the rich and the relatively much larger stratum of upper managerials and professionals get to divvy up money-power. The third class citizens – women and minorities, mainly – receive a mixture of tangible and intangible pay-offs. The system is relatively stable, but not invulnerable. Its internal contradictions are real, and the still-ongoing financial crisis (arguably a profit crisis) foreshadows the potential for a system-wide and macro-level danger, but has not yet been realized as a true political crisis of the whole, at least not yet.

Comment on Let them eat flat screens by b-psycho

b-psycho — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:42:37 +0000

Good point on how the relative comforts of the American poor basically come off the backs of even poorer unseen foreigners. Also, why so few comments on American income touch on the extent to which even what we consider “middle class” is rooted in debt remains a painful puzzle.

Comment on Wall Archive by miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:32:42 +0000

btw, how often does a Nicks or Lakers player, come down with
abdominal strain,

Comment on Wall Archive by fuster

fuster — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:59:39 +0000

it most def ain’t baseball the way Artest plays it. my twin nephews played on a pretty serious rugby team until one of them needed a rather extensive facial reconstruction…..happily everyone can now tell them apart ……and somehow it puts me in mind of Ronny…. who a few minutes ago, put an elbow unto Harden’s face as he dragged him to the ground.

Comment on Wall Archive by CK MacLeod

CK MacLeod — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:33:14 +0000

What’s that? Baseball?