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   Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 07:07:43 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   Inequality 1/2:

   In the Observer today, Eliza Filby (in an article summarising her new book, not yet online) uses a term I'd not heard before & like (but which doesn't originate with her):

   the Inheritocracy

   As she points out int he article & in her book, Britain has become a society patterned by what you inherit from your parents, alongside what after net they can provide as you build your life.

   In other words (as I've posted on before) inheritance is an engine of inequality.

   #inequality

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:26:46 JST Cory Doctorow

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   At the time, people inside and outside of China believed that Xi was using the crackdown to target his political enemies and consolidate power. Certainly, that was the *effect* of the purge, which paved the way for reforms to Chinese law that have effectively allowed Xi to hold office for life.

   In 2018, Peter Lorentzen (USF Econ) and Xi Lu (NUS Policy) published a paper that used clever empirical methods to get to the bottom of this question:

   https://web.archive.org/web/20181222163946/https://peterlorentzen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lorentzen-Lu-Crackdown-Nov-2018-Posted-Version.pdf

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   ≠ (amerika@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 14:58:07 JST ≠

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   @p @amerika@freespeechextremist.com @sim @Flick

   Fiction forgot its goal, which was to sing a song of life.

   In that song, we find meaning in our quest to make the postmodern hellworld into something better.

   Futurism kicks in again.