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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, everybody,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ok. That’s solved. What else do you want to talk about?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>