Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

On 8/30/2024 7:09 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:33:43 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:02:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:26:09 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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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:

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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?

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Yes. That was my point.

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OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple.
Simplicity may not be a desirable feature.

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Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.'
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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".
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From a lecture delivered "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The
Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933)
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If I were King I'd advocate monarchy!
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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.

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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."
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So... 4.4 Billion divided by 5.893 million last (census)is something
like 746 for every man, woman and child :-)

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Recipe for inflation.

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Not "recipe"... today's reality.
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 Indeed, the so called "Inflation Reduction Act" actually increased
inflation.

Not many Acts of Congress are related to their title except in satire or despondence.
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