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Thank you Ken for this post, an interesting society-related follow-up to your Navajo rug & semiconductor post. The tension that we techno-nerds have to live with is that the gizmos we love so much (am looking at you Minuteman Stabilized Platform! B-36! Apollo Guidance Computer!) are born out of these great wealth "disparities" as largely created by the United States. Flatten the income distribution; flatten ambition; flatten intellectual drive - these are genuine concerns (or, to the Bolshevicks, cherished goals!) and, as the Kulaks learned, can lead to the sort of fatal tyranny we've so far avoided in the USA. Perhaps this graph would play better on an Atari 800 display, all of us congealed in a single raster column. As always, very much appreciate your work, and applaud your expansion of subject matter! Best, David G.
Oct 17, 2024, 6:58:45 AM
Posted to Wealth distribution in the United States