Comments on: Poor neighborhoods create misfortune and ill health

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:45:04 +0000

I’ve seen that threshold at work at a startup I worked at. Three vicious (in a polite, tech-corporate way) people in positions of authority in a company of less than 20 was more than enough to destroy all cooperation, trust, and faith in the future.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:58:33 +0000

In an age where the only way out of “evil” neighborhoods is to buy your way out, the people who would most benefit from escape, the ones who are just priced out of a way out, are the most oppressed. Legally enforced race-blindness is therefore supremely racist.

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:34:05 +0000

One way I’ve recently thought about giving these progressive theories some meat is by thinking of ‘vicious fractions’ akin to ‘smart fractions.’

There has to be a threshold of ‘vicious’ people in any group or collection of people (whether a corporate boardroom or a corner drug gang) which would completely break down cooperation. This way, the ‘neighborhood’ with evil spirits could simply refer to the bad (say 20-30%?) that comprises of the vicious fraction, which the other people can’t get rid of without external intervention.