Comments on: A Zero-Sum Wealth Quiz http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: test http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5161 test Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:53:28 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5161 <p>http://heritagebiblecollege.edu/news/last/<br /> http://heritagebiblecollege.edu/news/last/<br /> http://heritagebiblecollege.edu/news/last/<br /> </p> http://heritagebiblecollege.edu/news/last/
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]]> By: The Dirty Mac http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5160 The Dirty Mac Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:29:16 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5160 <p>Often the "peak" of material prosperity for average Americans is set sometime in the 1960's or less frequently at or about the time Carter was in office (obviously targeted at those who do not remember the Carter era). The Buchanan/Dobbs golden age was clearly in the 1950's.</p> <p>The absurdity of the argument can then be obscured by baby boomers nostalgia for the days of their youth.</p> Often the “peak” of material prosperity for average Americans is set sometime in the 1960′s or less frequently at or about the time Carter was in office (obviously targeted at those who do not remember the Carter era). The Buchanan/Dobbs golden age was clearly in the 1950′s.

The absurdity of the argument can then be obscured by baby boomers nostalgia for the days of their youth.

]]> By: civil truth http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5159 civil truth Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:40:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5159 <p>I guess a large part is choosing whether to focus on what you have or on what you don't have that others have. Contentment <em>versus</em> envy.</p> <p>And while we're not talking zero-sum, there are certain things we've have to trade for our century's greater material prosperity. While we have become less vulnerable to many things in our environment, in other ways we are more vulnerable.</p> <p>Still your post is a timely warning against the purveyors of discontent.</p> <p>**By the way, I've given you a <a href="http://andrightlyso.com/2007/04/02/thinking-blogger-award/" rel="nofollow">Thinking Blogger award</a>**.</p> I guess a large part is choosing whether to focus on what you have or on what you don’t have that others have. Contentment versus envy.

And while we’re not talking zero-sum, there are certain things we’ve have to trade for our century’s greater material prosperity. While we have become less vulnerable to many things in our environment, in other ways we are more vulnerable.

Still your post is a timely warning against the purveyors of discontent.

**By the way, I’ve given you a Thinking Blogger award**.

]]> By: dearieme http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5158 dearieme Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:44:51 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5158 <p>Dan, on the other hand look at the life-span of Queen Vic's husband, Prince Albert. And his cause of death. Or Mozart's life-span. Or that of Mr Jefferson's slaves.</p> Dan, on the other hand look at the life-span of Queen Vic’s husband, Prince Albert. And his cause of death. Or Mozart’s life-span. Or that of Mr Jefferson’s slaves.

]]> By: markm http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5157 markm Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:41:44 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5157 <p>Dan: If "wasn't unusual" means under 10%. When Social Security was inaugurated, only one in ten working men were expected to live to 65 and begin collecting. </p> Dan: If “wasn’t unusual” means under 10%. When Social Security was inaugurated, only one in ten working men were expected to live to 65 and begin collecting.

]]> By: Dan http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5156 Dan Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:28:36 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5156 <p>I think its disingenuous of you to say that age 64 represented an "old man" at a time when the average lifespan was in the 40s, as you do. I'm sure you know as well as I do that the reason the average lifespan was so much shorter than was because of the high rate of death from childhood diseases and deaths in childbirth. Once you get past those, people normally lived into their 60s, 70s and 80s and even longer just as they do now. If you look at the lifespans of some of the better known people of the age (Queen Victoria, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Jefferson, just to name a few), it's obvious that it wasn't unusual for someone to live 75 or 80 years.</p> I think its disingenuous of you to say that age 64 represented an “old man” at a time when the average lifespan was in the 40s, as you do. I’m sure you know as well as I do that the reason the average lifespan was so much shorter than was because of the high rate of death from childhood diseases and deaths in childbirth. Once you get past those, people normally lived into their 60s, 70s and 80s and even longer just as they do now. If you look at the lifespans of some of the better known people of the age (Queen Victoria, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Jefferson, just to name a few), it’s obvious that it wasn’t unusual for someone to live 75 or 80 years.

]]> By: M. Hodak http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5155 M. Hodak Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:02:44 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5155 <p>Amazing post. I'm so glad I discovered this blog.</p> Amazing post. I’m so glad I discovered this blog.

]]> By: Dale http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html/comment-page-1#comment-5154 Dale Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:54:43 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/04/a_zerosum_wealt.html#comment-5154 <p>I like this blog entry because it shows the progress the US and global economies have made in creating wealth and delivering luxuries (as well as needs) to individuals. The comparison of the "Bill Gates" home of the early 1900's vs the 2000's "average citizen's" home is powerful. Another powerful comparison would be to show how the average citizen lived in the early 1900's vs the early 2000's.</p> I like this blog entry because it shows the progress the US and global economies have made in creating wealth and delivering luxuries (as well as needs) to individuals. The comparison of the “Bill Gates” home of the early 1900′s vs the 2000′s “average citizen’s” home is powerful. Another powerful comparison would be to show how the average citizen lived in the early 1900′s vs the early 2000′s.

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