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I used the term "landed gentry" because every member of this site is waaaaaaay richer than the global median. So relative to an aspiring immigrant in Oaxaca Mexico, we are all extremely well off.

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    I used the term "landed gentry" because every member of this site is waaaaaaay richer than the global median. So relative to an aspiring immigrant in Oaxaca Mexico, we are all extremely well off.

    There's that least-common-denominator I was talking about...

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    There's that least-common-denominator I was talking about...

    And that's the zero-sum thinking I've been on trying to dispel here for months.

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    It has. The economic way of thinking isn't voiced very often in the media and it doesn't have the raw, emotional appeal of alarmism.

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