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@ghasley "its never been in fashion for educators to present opposite sides of a given topic"

hmm... guess it depends on the quality of the teachers you have.  I haven't had the displeasure to struggle w one-sided profs or teachers; generally they did present various perspectives, though with some unfortunate exceptions. 

I started learning about Darwin in junior high school, when it was still called junior high school instead of "middle school,"  ... in Oklahoma.  My schooling in evolution continued throughout high school in Minnesota, as did my introduction to Kent State (where I ended up attending as one of my graduate schools) and intro to Marx.  Maybe I've been lucky... but I've been to a lot of schools in multiple locations both in this country and abroad.  It's been the rare teacher who was adamantly one-sided. 

 "never" is a big word, as is "fashion"... 

true, a friend of mine who immigrated to U.S. from China was required to take multiple courses in "Maoist Principles" ... I wasn't there, but my guess is that your statement would apply, since my friend has since had to learn about American alternatives

Just reading up, but think is covered already. The 46k is for individual income. True, households with both working would be halved. As one person noted, often mean (arithmetic average) and median are close.  Just that mean, the average, is impacted by large outliers.

I believe my Pack (sucking this last year) is employee-owned.

Just small stake for investors, though.

@dodgealum Thank you! Creates intellectual inquiry, much like Talmud study. Great. I took 4 AP courses, 2 in history in early 1970s.

@curtdr I also read the Marx-Engles Reader and only excerpt of Das Kapital. On target.

@elliottbnewcombjr Phew on you. Uncle Tom was a hero. He wouldn’t rat out the women and saved their lives.  There is a new opera, OMAR, which was written by Black Americans.   In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography (the only known surviving American slavery narrative written in Arabic).  Shows the African slave trade by Africans, both evil and benevolent slave owners, the latter teaching slaves to read and be elevated in pre Civil War America.   

About 600,000 slaves were transported to the United States, or 5% of the twelve million slaves taken from Africa. About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean.

You should go live in a nice socialist or communist country. You blame billionaires on right wing elites. Ha Ha! It’s the Democrat/socialist billionaires that are the elitists putting down everyone else (Gates, Bezos, Soros, et.al.) not Musk or Warren. Billionaires create jobs and innovation, not poor people. Technology comes from the top. Edison was not a nice man but promoted new technology which benefited everyone (stole many ideas). Ford revolutionized manufacturing while providing superior working conditions for employees. Your one sided look at America is just like Zinn. Leftist!

I am left handed