[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Marcus Daniels]

Krugman provides an analysis..

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/economy-stock-market-coronavirus.html

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
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Date: Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 3:13 PM
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Would the rich, with proportionally more in the stock market, be disadvantaged by drops in stock prices? I suppose, on the other hand, they would tend to have enough cash or equivalent to to take advantage of the price drops to buy stocks at reduced prices.

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:02 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com<mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> On Behalf Of Prof David West
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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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< 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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