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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (198857)	8/26/2012 11:59:41 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541236

I am really not interested in Murray's motives or personal philosophy as long as his current methodology and statistics are valid. Ok, what are you interested in? Near as I can tell, Murray's "methodology" was to compile a bunch of statistics showing the lower class is less "moral" than the upper class. Then he concludes that the upper class should be haranguing the lower class about their moral failings. An alternate conclusion would be that the lower class falls down a lot on social norms because, well, they have less money. Correlation is not causation, but I'd estimate that poverty -> "moral decline" more than "moral decline" -> poverty. Hell, if "moral decline" -> poverty, why are the Wall Street fat cats who caused the financial meltdown once again the richest of them all? Fitzgerald/Murray: The Rich are Different than you and I Hemingway/me: Yeah, they have more money.