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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:43:41 -0500
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On 8/30/2024 4:02 AM, Catrike Ryder 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.

As predicted, among other worse evils.
And here we are.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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