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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:28:20 +0000
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On 31/10/2024 00:25, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:43:03 +0100, D wrote:
> 
>> Oh but they are. Today they are called mexicans, italians, greek,
>> arabians etc. and from a material and quality of life point of view,
>> they've never had it better.
> 
> Tell that to a mestizo picking lettuce in central California.

In fact it probably is true. I remember looking at little huts and a few 
square yards hacked out of the jungle in the Quintana Roo, with a pig or 
two and some chickens, and some sweetcorn growing and thinking. "Ah, the 
relics of the Mayan civilisation"

Those people come to the USA because it IS a better life, just as in S 
Africa millions flooded into 'black townships' under a racist regime 
because life was, even so,  better than where they came from.

Like people fled in from Britain's countryside to live in apparent 
squalor and poverty in the industrial towns, because it was after all 
better than slaving in the fields.

The Rural Idyll supported at best 6 million populations. That grew 
rapidly once industrialisation happened...


-- 
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted 
man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest 
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly 
persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid 
before him."

    - Leo Tolstoy