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Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
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Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
From the March 27, 2017 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

4:25 PM, Mar 18, 2017 | By THE SCRAPBOOK
 

Princeton economics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton has been running around making an extraordinary claim: “Being really poor in America is in some ways worse than being really poor in India or Africa," he recently told the National Association for Business Economics. Asked about those comments in an interview with the Atlantic, Deaton doubled down: "If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I'm not sure who would have the better life."

This claim was qualified—Deaton is referring to those who live in extreme poverty. But The Scrapbook did once spend two months following around economists from the U.S. Agency for International Development in the slums of Asia, and we can say with near-scientific certitude that Deaton's claim is so idiotic it could only have been uttered by a Nobel Prize winner.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/well-no-but-i-did-fly-over-it-once/article/2007271
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2017, 02:43:14 pm »
Professor is an idiot
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2017, 02:49:42 pm »
I'd pick India over a trailer park in Milwaukee. Better neighbours.
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2017, 02:54:39 pm »
Quote from: EC on March 21, 2017, 02:49:42 pm
I'd pick India over a trailer park in Milwaukee. Better neighbours.

I wouldn't:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27775327
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2017, 03:01:54 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on March 21, 2017, 02:54:39 pm
I wouldn't:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27775327

I'd rather be forced to live in an American trailer park than live in India or pretty much any city in the world.
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2017, 03:37:28 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on March 20, 2017, 10:09:09 pm
Princeton economics professor emeritus and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton has been running around making an extraordinary claim: “Being really poor in America is in some ways worse than being really poor in India or Africa," he recently told the National Association for Business Economics.

This guy never read Melville's "Poor Man's Pudding" - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poor_Man's_Pudding_and_Rich_Man's_Crumbs
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Re: Well, No, But I Did Fly Over It Once
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2017, 04:01:54 pm »
"If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I'm not sure who would have the better life."

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I will take the Mississippi delta any day of the week and twice on Sundays. The music alone is reason enough.


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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2017, 04:09:11 pm »
This dude is a nobel-prize winner. That's unbelievable to me.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2017, 04:18:12 pm »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on March 21, 2017, 04:01:54 pm
"If you had to choose between living in a poor village in India and living in the Mississippi Delta or in a suburb of Milwaukee in a trailer park, I'm not sure who would have the better life."

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I will take the Mississippi delta any day of the week and twice on Sundays. The music alone is reason enough.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTtAJEWcyGw

Plenty of good music came out of my neck of the woods here in Southeastern Michigan.
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