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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (172153)	10/7/2005 4:26:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's a very good point- so you would expect the happiest societies to be the most egalitarian (other factors being equal, or sort of equal). I wonder if they are?

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (172153)	10/7/2005 5:28:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

All my life I've been well aware that I was far from top of the financial heap. I recall learning quite young that instinctive reaction to that is not a good idea as it's just an envy reaction, one of the seven deadly sins. We children would hide below the window in our old Model A car in embarrassment. <Your nephew was on to something. It's not our absolute station in life that determines our satisfaction, it's our relative station in life. Have you ever read the book "King Rat?" That says it all.> No, not read King Rat. Learning how it all works is important for children to avoid them running into problems resulting from their instinctive envy, greed, desire and megalomania. We are different from a flock of seagulls fighting over s dead fish. We are not like chimps who fight over found wealth with alpha male taking all he wants. Well, all too many of us are. Totalitarianism is still common. Saddam is only recently out of business. We are still only partly human. Mqurice