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extralegos··on Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)
If they can’t afford to, they don’t. Welcome to America. Most working people here simply don’t have this kind of flexibility.
extralegos··on For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earned-Now They Want Bailout
Great point, and very relevant to 2009, wherein the automakers would have likely not been replaced by American companies. But, in the case of United States airline companies, they would very likely be replaced by other American companies if they were not adopted by the creditors.
extralegos··on Gates Foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in Seattle
What “greater good” are you talking about? You think people just love Bill gates so they want to live in a dystopia for him? Is the “greater good” Bill Gates’ bank accounts that keep getting bigger every day, despite his perpetual generosity?
extralegos··on Gates Foundation program will issue home testing kits for Covid 19 in Seattle
Feudalism is an pre-industrial, primarily agrarian system of socioeconomic relations in which peasants farm land controlled by nobility in exchange for military protections.

In Feudalism, the single incentive for the nobility to protect the peasant is the exchange value of the product of the peasant’s labor. Feudalism is best known for it’s lack of democratic relations.