05-23-2018, 05:04 PM
(05-23-2018, 04:58 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Dill should be in the house soon to discuss this with you.
I purposefully tried to discuss some of the ideas and themes to see if it intrigued anyone. I doubt many, if any, will read this book as well. But there are some interesting talking points.
For instance, there was apparently a book a couple of years ago that estimated Gini coefficients (look it up if you don't know what it is) for historical times. They found that the Gini coefficient in 1774 America was .441, .409 removing slaves from the equation. The coefficient runs from 0 to 1, with 0 being a completely egalitarian society with no income inequality and 1 at the opposite end. So the closer to one, the more unequal the society. Our Gini coefficient for the US in 2012 was .463.
We are experiencing higher economic inequality than what existed during the days of slavery!
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
