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What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?

Date: 2009-03-16 02:51 pm (UTC)
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"People don't seem to use absolute wealth to judge their situation but rather relative wealth."

I hear this all the time, but like most USians and Canadians, I grew up in a middle class suburb, where we knew fully well that we weren't the richest people in the whole world, but that didn't seem to cause burning resentment - everyone seemed fairly content. I think revolutions are much more likely to originate from disparities in rights rather than disparities in wealth.

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