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Gone again Started conversation Oct 11, 2002
"Take two countries in which the bottom 20 per cent are equally poor, but the top five per cent in one are richer than their counterparts in the other. Common sense would suggest that the country with more resources at the top would have the lower infant mortality rate. But the reverse is the case: the babies of the poor are more likely to die in the country whose rich are wealthier." an excerpt from "Unity is Health: An Evolutionary Left" by Marek Kohn (http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/kohn.html)
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Noggin the Nog Posted Oct 11, 2002
Why am I not surprised?
Why am I also not surprised that crime rates soar when disparities in wealth are maximised?
Why do I think that radical insecurity is not conducive to a civilised society?
Why do I think the aims of socioecenomic policy in this country are seriously misconceived?
Rhetorical questions, of course.
Noggin
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Gone again Posted Oct 13, 2002
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Well I *was* surprised when I read the article. It's all in keeping with my existing beliefs, so I wasn't surprised in that sense. It was the fact that greater disparities of wealth seem - of themselves - to lead to greater hardships for the less well off. That did surprise me. I expected, as common sense would suggest, that a more prosperous country would have lower infant mortality. This just confirms my lifelong suspicion that reality is non-intuitive. [Think about quantum theory, the most non-intuitive theory ever devised, which seems to match the real world better than any other!]
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 14, 2002
Err am I right in thinking that if I plead to join in this thread as Chair of Imperial Deafnes I may be allowed to join the forum, hmmm?
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GTBacchus Posted Oct 14, 2002
It'd be best to announce yourself in the Business Forum thread - F80629?thread=155651&latest=1 - which is where everyone's subscribed and where most of the action is. Don't worry about interrupting the discussion going on there; it happens all the time. Meanwhile, I reckon I can go ahead and add you to the roster. Wecome aboard, Jose.
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