In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
<mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:46:54 +0100
<u32ds4-5hu.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ chrisv on Tuesday 18 September 2007 13:15 : \____
>>
>>> Stuart Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> EU court dismisses most of Microsoft's appeal
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | The EU's Court of First Instance dismissed Microsoft's appeal on all
>>>>> | substantive points, reversing the Commission only on the creation of a
>>>>> | monitoring trustee to ensure implementation of one of the remedies.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nBRU005957
>>>>>
>>>>> SCO bankrupt on Friday and Microsoft down on Monday. What a great week.
>>>>>
>>>>> This decision is very likely to affect the States' request for extended
>>>>> oversight in the United States.
>>>>
>>>>I'm really pleased with this ruling.
>>>>It's hard to say much about the process or the differences between European
>>>>and US government models, but I am sure that the only reason MS gets away
>>>>with so much in the US is that it is such a major contributor to US
>>>>politicians, to the US foreign exchange reserves, and to US income tax.
>>>
>>> The U$A is the land of the evil businessman. They run this country.
>>
>> Didn't like 5% of the population control approx. 90% of the wealth?
>>
>
> If you look at the global picture, I think it's much much worse than
> that.
>
A disturbing pie chart, among other things:
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
This as of 2001. I doubt it's gotten much better since then.
The debt picture is even more disturbing (Figure 2b), and
Figure 3 is not going to make libertarians happy, as it shows
the black households being squished by the white man -- or
at least not keeping up therewith.
The odd thing is that the 99%/1% ratio has been largely
constant throughout history (at least since 1920), with
some fluctuations (see Table 3 and Figure 4). The best
ratio in fact was at the end of the Carter Administration:
79.5% held by the bottom 99%, versus 20.5% of the wealth
held by the top 1%. However, the Carter administration also
had a 19% prime rate at one point.
Not the best of economic scenarios to revisit, though I can't
say I like our current one either.
Figures 6 and 7 aren't horribly illuminating, but do show
that the CEO's pay is now maybe 10x what it was in the
60's, relative to the pay of the average worker. However,
I think this is only a tiny part of the problem, though it
speaks ill for the CEO -- mostly because at some point the
workers will revolt.
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