Comments on: Waste http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/10/waste/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Keywords » Oligarchy http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/10/waste/comment-page-1/#comment-5479 Keywords » Oligarchy Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:32:30 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2485#comment-5479 [...] Having just complained about the Times habit of writing as if the poor didn’t exist, suddenly I find two articles that would make you think the Times was run by commie pinkos! In fact, the first story, about the “The Rise of the Super-Rich” sounds surprisingly like this one from the Marxist journal, The Monthly Review. These two articles about the growing gap between the “creamy layer” of society and the middle classes draw on several recent studies with some alarming data. The most striking being that whereas previous growth at the top has helped lift the rest of society, that is not true this time, as this graph makes clear: [...] [...] Having just complained about the Times habit of writing as if the poor didn’t exist, suddenly I find two articles that would make you think the Times was run by commie pinkos! In fact, the first story, about the “The Rise of the Super-Rich” sounds surprisingly like this one from the Marxist journal, The Monthly Review. These two articles about the growing gap between the “creamy layer” of society and the middle classes draw on several recent studies with some alarming data. The most striking being that whereas previous growth at the top has helped lift the rest of society, that is not true this time, as this graph makes clear: [...]

]]> By: M E-L http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/07/10/waste/comment-page-1/#comment-5478 M E-L Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:40:12 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2485#comment-5478 Thanks for the article -- as a NYT subscriber I'm all too familiar with the "How to Insulate Your House with Pate" phenomenon. Thanks for the article — as a NYT subscriber I’m all too familiar with the “How to Insulate Your House with Pate” phenomenon.

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