[FRIAM] A solution to all our social ills.

[Roger Critchlow]

Andrew Gelman's blog recalled these graphics from 2018,
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html,
which argue that economics and class don't entirely cover the problem.
Also pretty neat graphics.

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On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 9:39 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, everybody,
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> You will recognize this mood.  I have come to the conclusion that being
> discriminated against  and therefor poor, in our society, is a role, a
> function that needs to be fulfilled.  It’s a job.  It is impossible to be
> rich if somebody else is not poor.  (I mean, how else would one know?)
> Being poor is nasty hard work, but somebody has to do it.  So, my solution
> is to pay people to be poor.  How much should we pay them.  Well, for this,
> we need to set up a government agency, NIESE, The National Institute for
> Economic and Social equity,  pronounced, of course, “nice.”   This agency
> set’s up Disparity Observatories, all over the country that monitor
> economic success in terms of every imaginable individual human trait.
> Then, at tax time, a multivariate analysis assigns to each taxpayer a
> degree of discrimination and the government sends a bill or a payment,
> accordingly.  In a pretty short time, income can no longer be predicted on
> the basis of sex, gender, age, ethnicity, skin color, or prior condition of
> servitude.  If a formerly poor person’s allocation gets sufficiently large,
> we might send them a letter thanking them for their service as poor people,
> and wishing them well in their new employment.
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> Ok.  That’s solved.  What else do you want to talk about?
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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