Comments on: Hunkering down. http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2020/03/17/hunkering-down/ Random tangents Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark Dennehy http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2020/03/17/hunkering-down/comment-page-1/#comment-465159 Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:37:49 +0000 http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/?p=6837#comment-465159 Ah, but it is metric 😀
We got rid of the inch standard in the 1850s so everyone’s been on the metric standard for the last 170 years even if they were using one-thirty-ninth’s of a metre instead of one-hundreth of a metre 😀

]]> By: Sylvain http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2020/03/17/hunkering-down/comment-page-1/#comment-464455 Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:14:20 +0000 http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/?p=6837#comment-464455 – After WWI (and Spanish flu), the system has been much more redistributive for a while. Unfortunately with Reagan and Thatcher, the “invisible hand”-religion proselytism by the “Chicago boys”, and the collapse of the East block, politicians have gone back to before-WWI property, inheritance and income taxing practices.
Recommended reading: Thomas Piketty “Capital and ideology” – Harvard university press

– But,…, but, this caliper is not metric!

Sylvain

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