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In article <JMC.96Jan13205751@Steam.stanford.edu>, jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU wrote:

> John Hoopes tells us to look at archeology for clues as to what
> humanity will be like in 3000 AD.  Then he goes on to make short range
> predictions that seem completely unconnected with the "lessons of the
> past".
> 
> Does archeology somehow tell us that the gap between rich and poor
> will widen, or is it that most archeologists share quite contemporary
> liberal prejudices about such matters?
> 
> -- 
> John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305

   No, it is the corporate concentration statistics collected by our own
governments (but carefully never mentioned in election campaigns), which
inform any thinking person who is aware of them of the growing gap between
rich and poor, and of the return of inherited wealth as the basis for
political influence (remember monarchy)?.

------------------------------Regards--------------------------------
Roy C. Dudgeon, York University, Department of Social Anthropology.
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