Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 25 Aug 2025 04:54:52 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <107f281$35moq$4@dont-email.me> <107gjq8$3iasj$2@dont-email.me> <107gvbi$3lqmd$4@dont-email.me> <107j4le$5ipa$1@dont-email.me> <107jb12$6imt$5@dont-email.me> <107o8dl$1btq6$1@dont-email.me> <107pok7$1k377$26@dont-email.me> <107rasm$20k71$18@dont-email.me> <107s89h$279li$1@dont-email.me> <107vld7$365u2$2@dont-email.me> <1089n6r$1i3kj$1@dont-email.me> <108gml7$370bv$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7cjkL+W2wNDKSYtotjEOvwJe1uy7DAiuy/m+OjkdVGfyWgGUOe Cancel-Lock: sha1:UhesW95ohl22kWORnvOh3yk+QMM= sha256:6kHYp5CImUlBlkKvGIYZ7cydBIiIQ1dOlEyo2wECagQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:22912 comp.os.linux.misc:72217 On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:52:07 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > The economy has many theorists but few people like Piketty working > on the basis of observation. A real economy would be based on the energy > available without pollution and a better distribution of real resources > throughout the population. But I don't think that Economics is a > science. > However observations of past national economies showed that accumulation > of massive fortunes by the fortunate or the enterprising has never been > good for the nations in which it happened. I read 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'. It wasn't exactly a page turner and I had no way of verifying his data. While he makes some good points I was disappointed by his conclusion which came down to 'tax the rich bastards!' while accepting the capitalist system.