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Open thread May 31, 2013

Dan Crawford | May 31, 2013 8:02 am

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  • rjs says:
    May 31, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    Robobee Officially Takes Flight: Robotic Pollinators to Replace Dying Bees

    it will be interesting to see if they can mass produce a half million of them for every dozen acres of oranges they want to pollinate…

  • coberly says:
    May 31, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    Rjs

    and if they can, it will be interesting to see how much we like the world they are creating.

  • Denis Drew says:
    June 9, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    EXPERIMENTING TO SEE IF MY WORKSHEET DISPLAYS PROPERLY ON AN OLD OPEN THREAD. THE DOTS ARE BECAUSE MY EXPERIENCE WITH TYPEPAD IS THAT IT WILL CLOSE UP OPEN SPACES — SO HERE GOES:

    My minimum wage worksheet — the easily could-have-been minimum wage dbl indexed for inflation and per capita income growth:

    yr..per capita…real…nominal…dbl-index…%-of

    68..15,473..10.69..(1.60)
    69-70-71-72-73
    74..18,284…9.43…(2.00)…12.61
    75..18,313…9.08…(2.10)…12.61
    76..18,945…9.40…(2.30)…13.04…72%
    77
    78..20,422…9.45…(2.65)…14.11
    79..20,696…9.29…(2.90)…14.32
    80..20,236…8.75…(3.10)…14.00

    81..20,112…8.57…(3.35)…13.89…62%
    82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89
    90..24,000…6.76…(3.80)…16.56
    91..23,540…7.26…(4.25)…16.24…44%
    92-93-94-95
    96..25,887…7.04…(4.75)…17.85
    97..26,884…7.46…(5.15)…19.02…39%
    98-99-00-01-02-03-04-05-06
    07..29,075…6.56…(5.85)…20.09
    08..28,166…7.07…(6.55)…19.45
    09..27,819…7.86…(7.25)…19.42…40%
    10-11-12

    13..29,209?.. 7.25..(7.25)…20.20?..36%?

    * * * * * *

    An added thought: By the year 2013 some could speculate that a $20.20/hr minimum wage might not be a realistic expectation evidenced by double indexing alone — from 1968’s $10.69/hr minimum wage — because the fabric of the economy might have changed so radically over 45 years. Fair enough, but LBJ’s 1968 minimum wage would have morphed to more than $14/hr with double indexing by only 1969. Can anyone explain how the economic fabric might have changed radically in a mere 10 years?

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