1900 Utopia: fat poor people, women can be doctors and even doctors of philosophy, there's a bicycle in every apartment and something's finally been done about those giant mounds of horse manure at every intersection. 2000 Utopia: poor (=dumb) people all have enough personal information technology to jack us up like normals, men have sexbots, there's a flying car in every garage and something's finally been done about having to trust mass media.

Italians are the best people

***Tell this to the "Human BioDiversity" crowd.  
  
They seem to latch their whole skewed perspective of everything positive and negative about certain groups on static genetic heritability.***

20$ an hour isn't minimum wage. It wasn't unusual twenty years ago. 
 
Minimum wage jobs are depressing. A good job peps you up.

Wages were high internationally in the sixties; more cash, more irrational exuberance, higher animal spirits. 
 
Thus, more crime. 
 
The freeze on working-class wages since the early 80s is terrible public policy, but I think it did cut crime. 
 
Intelligent AND sincere? Who do you think you are?

In Scotland, particularly Glasgow, they call it 'juice'!