Re: Retooling the Vision for Space Exploration

Einar <einarbb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:Possible, but other consequences of being poor are that you generally
:are less educated and also less informed generally, which does tend to
:make a person more vulnerable to wrongheaded ideas.
:
:Still, harder life and anger mixed with envy perhaps, that others do
:have got is so much better, does probably play a role as well.
:

Reality doesn't seem to be in precise 1:1 accord with this stereotype.
Poor people with a hard life are generally a bit busy with things like
eating and getting out of the weather to care about radical
ideologies.

:
:The education problem can at least be substantially alleviated through
:access to free education. In Europe, primary education but also
:frequently high school/grammar school grade education, tend to be
:free...that is payd for through general taxation. In some countries
:university level education up to the BA level is free as well.
:
:Free education significantly increases mobility between income levels
:IMO.
:

The most radical extremists tend to be young upper class and
upper-middle class university educated.

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"The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty and
he does his best to deny that he's a hero the whole time."
-- Frank Miller
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