Re: CLASS in Europe and America
rbowman <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:06:22 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 8/15/26 03:27, rbowman wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:51:17 -0400, c186282 wrote: >> >>> Or are you looking for some kind of medieval starving-farmer >>> equation ??? >> >> The fact that Usenet exists suggests that not all the farmers starved. > > ALL, no. LOTS and LOTS, yes. While there is always luck involved the more capable, provident farmers survived. Today, to extend the metaphor, half of the provident farmer's crop would be confiscated to support his neighbor who is incompetent or too lazy to bother to plow, sow, and reap. > It's ALL "usury" - always HAS been. IMHO it always WILL be, depending > on yer chosen defs. You have a strange definition of usury. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54319/canto-xlv Dante put usurers in the 7th circle of hell, along with blasphemers and those who sin against nature. That presumably would include the officials on the WNBA who aren't sure what a woman is.