aha, it was JH in the lottery threat


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swishnicholson wrote:

Bucky wrote:It's a good one too! Someone linked that somewhere else a few weeks back. I thought it was this thread but apparently not.

It was jersey in the lottery thread. threw me for a loop at first since i somehow read this one as being from the New Yorker.

You have me on delayed ignore

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Just loaded them to my instapaper, looking forward to giving them a read.

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

Hi there. Have I mentioned how much I value your opinions and always enjoy reading you posts?

Plus, you look really nice in jeans (if your into that).

Phred wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

Hi there. Have I mentioned how much I value your opinions and always enjoy reading you posts?

Plus, you look really nice in jeans (if your into that).

You had him until you used the wrong your.

slugsrbad wrote:

Phred wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

Hi there. Have I mentioned how much I value your opinions and always enjoy reading you posts?

Plus, you look really nice in jeans (if your into that).

You had him until you used the wrong your.

sonofabitch

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

Even after reading the very on-point critique, there are enough nuggets in the first article that continue to make me think. There are growing issues that are contributing to a weakened "society" (for lack of a better work... maybe "American dream" is a better way of putting it). Yes, the issues have always existed, but it's like wack-a-mole. Just because we made redlining illegal does not mean that racial integration in lending and housing is no longer worth thinking about. Other issues keep popping up.

Lack of income mobility (intergenerational earnings elasticity)
Preponderance of non-paid internships
Growing value premium of advanced degrees
Increasing cost of college
Reduction in public funding for higher education
Localized funding of public education leading to poor schools
Running large deficits during economic expansions
Decreasing estate taxes
Rise of single parenting for low income parents
Legacy admissions
Emphasis on credentialing in employment opportunities
Rising federal tax expenditures

These are all interrelated, and create resentment among people who get the short-end of the stick. The digression about Trump supporters, and the assertion that they are displaying resentment of their non-prosperity, while not a novel observation, strikes me as pretty accurate.

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Werthless wrote:The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy: The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem

https://slate.com/business/2018/05/forg ... oblem.html

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the original article, and the critique you shared.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean it to be like YOURS IS WRONG. Just had to run to a meeting.

I think there are some fair points in both. The critique even says the 9.9% probably does deserve scrutiny at times. I don't know that I'm in the top 10% but I do fairly well and look inwards at times at what got me here and what I can do to combat inequality and the best i can do is just give money away, which I try to do.

But I have the thoughts at the back of my head of you need to save for retirement and buy a house and blah blah and the pie shrinks with the nagging doubt that i wont be able to retire til 70.

Even after reading the very on-point critique, there are enough nuggets in the first article that continue to make me think. There are growing issues that are contributing to a weakened "society" (for lack of a better work... maybe "American dream" is a better way of putting it). Yes, the issues have always existed, but it's like wack-a-mole. Just because we made redlining illegal does not mean that racial integration in lending and housing is no longer worth thinking about. Other issues keep popping up.

Lack of income mobility (intergenerational earnings elasticity)
Preponderance of non-paid internships
Growing value premium of advanced degrees
Increasing cost of college
Reduction in public funding for higher education
Localized funding of public education leading to poor schools
Running large deficits during economic expansions
Decreasing estate taxes
Rise of single parenting for low income parents
Legacy admissions
Emphasis on credentialing in employment opportunities
Rising federal tax expenditures

These are all interrelated, and create resentment among people who get the short-end of the stick. The digression about Trump supporters, and the assertion that they are displaying resentment of their non-prosperity, while not a novel observation, strikes me as pretty useful framing. It's more useful than just contenting ourselves by assuming that they are simply racist/misogynist/etc-ist.

Blood Will Tell Part 1
https://features.propublica.org/blood-s ... -evidence/

Article about early blood spatter forensic evidence being used in a murder case with very little other evidence. The victim is a high school teacher and her husband, a high school principal, is tried even though no one think he could or would do it.

Looking forward to part two.

Bill McNeal wrote:Blood Will Tell Part 1
https://features.propublica.org/blood-s ... -evidence/

Article about early blood spatter forensic evidence being used in a murder case with very little other evidence. The victim is a high school teacher and her husband, a high school principal, is tried even though no one think he could or would do it.

Looking forward to part two.

Me too.

swishnicholson wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Blood Will Tell Part 1
https://features.propublica.org/blood-s ... -evidence/

Article about early blood spatter forensic evidence being used in a murder case with very little other evidence. The victim is a high school teacher and her husband, a high school principal, is tried even though no one think he could or would do it.

Looking forward to part two.

Me too.

read it on NYT magazine the other day. should be illegal to end an article that way.

speak of the devil

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... dence.html

so you're saying he did it?

I'm looking forward to reading the articles, but just as an aside: Is there anything worse that could happen to your life than being thrown into fuck-me-in-the-ass prison for 3 decades for killing your wife when you didn't do it? Most people are going to assume you did it and you're just stuck there, living in Hell.

Maybe he did it, I don't know, but the thought of him being innocent is just chilling.