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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:26:34 +0700
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:09:46 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:33:43 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:02:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:26:09 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On 8/29/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 4:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 12:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 8/29/2024 1:47 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I read you correctly your definition of Democracy is 
>>>>>>>>> a government
>>>>>>>>> in which each and every decision is decided by the 
>>>>>>>>> voters, A bit
>>>>>>>>> cumbersome, isn't it?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes. That was my point.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple.
>>>>>>> Simplicity may not be a desirable feature.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as 
>>>>>> possible, but not simpler.'
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>I was curtness enough to research the Einstein statement, above, and
>>>>apparently there is no evidence that he ever said it. The closest
>>>>approximation seems to be "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme
>>>>goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple
>>>>and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate
>>>>representation of a single datum of experience".
>>>>
>>>>From a lecture delivered "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The
>>>>Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>If I were King I'd advocate monarchy!
>>>>>
>>>>>Our Constitution, in the cases and times where it's 
>>>>>observed, works pretty well.  Good enough for me and we 
>>>>>ought to try that once again. Soon.
>>>>
>>>>Ah, but then you'd have to give up all those wonderful federal funds.
>>>>It's a bit difficult to track down but in one place I found
>>>>"Under the American Rescue Plan, Wisconsin will receive $2.5 billion
>>>>in direct state fiscal aid and $1.9 billion in local government aid
>>>>from the federal government."
>>>>
>>>>So... 4.4 Billion divided by 5.893 million last (census)is something
>>>>like 746 for every man, woman and child :-)
>>>
>>>Recipe for inflation.
>>
>>Not "recipe"... today's reality.
>> 
>
>Indeed, the so called "Inflation Reduction Act" actually increased
>inflation.

It is also called "progress". Wages go up, as a result prices go up
and every cries "Inflation".

-- 
Cheers,

John B.