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Re:Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitali... by dragonwriter on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:36PM (#14621041)
> the system has managed to lift up everyone else as well, right?

By some measures, all of which fail to account for the fact that relative deprivation is a substantial source of experienced disutility.

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Re:Crony capitalism may be cannibalizing productive capitali... by pm90 on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:04PM (#14621295)
Its true, but I'm not sure whether I would choose to be born in a Cholera ridden mid 1850's London or the Ghettos of Inner-City Houston today. We've solved some problems and now face others of course, but my question is whether the earlier problems were of a different kind...
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