[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

Sat May 2 18:01:39 EDT 2020

Hi, Dave, 

Given that the super rich have the resiliency to respond to any crisis, I have a hard time imagining  anything that would disadvantage them EXCEPT taxing the living daylights out of them.  We did pretty well on 90% marginal tax rates.   

I agree about the White Quarantine.  

Nick 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 3:02 PM
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I once taught an honors course, with Father Smith at St. Thomas on the Anthropology and Theology of War. One of the prime forces behind war — since prehistory — had been nothing more than birth control.

davew

On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 12:37 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>  wrote:

Well, in a sense that’s correct.  But their method of “birth control” <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development>  is not one that I am prepared to take as a model.  Just imagine the worst sort of dystopian post apocalyptic novel.  See the description of the Calhoun experiment on p 224.

Nick

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

< You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop.  They never got above two hundred.  >

Maybe the rats were right?

Marcus

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