Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A reply to Ellen Meiksins Wood

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why are we so obsessed with personalities and their shortcomings?

ravi narayan wrote:

> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> >
> > In 1959 in India--when Gayatri Chakravorty graduated from the University
> > of Calcutta with a First in English--80 percent of Indian women over 15
> > could not read. Her family was not "rich" by first-world standards (she
> > went to graduate school at Cornell on borrowed money), and thus it was
> > not "super-rich" by Indian standards.
> >
>
> certainly not super rich, but if you can afford even the flight ticket
> from india to the US you are already in the upper middle class (and i
> use the term loosely - my bet would be top 30%).
>
>         --ravi

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