Re: Retooling the Vision for Space Exploration

On Mar 5, 9:20 pm, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Einar <eina...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
: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.

LOL, how do you then explain that in 1928 the Nazis polled around 3%
of the vote but in 1932 they polled around 30%. In between the world
depression had happened, meaning powerty had increased massivelly in
Germany.

I think you´re understanding of human kind is faulty.

: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.

--
"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

Theyr hunting grounds are the angry poor.

Einar
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