Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 1999/03

From: DHmorgan@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: tech gap (was store closings)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:12:11 -0500

In a message dated 3/5/99 12:04:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Michael_Cogswell@-----.com writes:

<< Even small technical advantages matter. I seriously doubt many students
from my daughter's school will lack a graphing calculator when they walk in
the SAT test this month. How many points is that worth over the poor
students who have to take the SAT without one?

MikeC >>

I have to disagree with this thread. The discrepancy between the haves and
have-nots, at least in American society, has hardly budged since the turn of
the century. This is based on government statistics. The exception was the
Reagan years, during which the rich actually did get richer and the poor
poorer, due to some really disasterous economic policies.

What we are looking at with the internet is the same-old-same-old. Capitalism
needs unemployment and poverty to keep wages low. It always has, it always
will. Whether we're zipping around in Model T's or on the internet,
technology doesn't change that basic princple.

Just a little OT, eh?

Don't get me started!
Don

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