Mean Economists 404

This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists to distinguish between mean national incomes and global median incomes, with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends expected. First, imagine USA mean income, including investment income, could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households per year. Are you kidding me? Where do you come up with those numbers? And that many full-time working two-parent households? Out of my mean Republican National Party imagination. If you imagine as many households with earned and investment income of $1,000,000 per year as there are destitute households with $0 earned/investment income, and the remainder of us lie evenly along straight or even bell-curved symmetrical lines between $0 and $1,000,000, then USA mean annual household income could be imagined as $500,000 per two-parent household. Well, maybe...OK, for the sake of this thought experiment. So what does that have to do with the price of carrots? Cost of living, with or without carrots, is more of a Democratic National Party issue where we turn to how trickle down capital acquisition and flow patterns, including reinvesting and relocating in cheaper labor-saving areas, are more depressingly influenced by median income, as compared to this more mean-spirited average US two-parent income. In other words, when Republicans imagine which economic policies are within their realm of self interest, they imagine themselves at least average, or above, even better, so when candidates promise lower taxes and deregulating fees for business and farm and patriotic industries of all good two-heterosexual parent families, Republican voters imagine such candidates speak also of and for them because they see their incoming as at least potentially within responsible sight of this average earned and investment returned income, and preferably above all those unwashed immigrant indigent others. But, the Democratic National Party, in its most globally liberating green best center, speaks not of mean economic incomes, but of the growing and depressing distance between average national income and shrinking median global income. Median. That's the most popular number, right? Like if more households bring in $30,000 per year, than $29,000 or below or $31,000 or above, on a scale from $0 to increasingly astronomical, then the median would remain $30,000. But, the average could be lower or higher, depending on whether there are greater positive deviations from the median or more totally disintegrating deviations down toward zero-sum, you lose everything, go directly to jail, do not even think about passing through Go again. Yes. So if you are a median democratic global economist you are noticing as the number of billionaires goes up, the gap between average income and median income grows in an alarmingly unhealthy direction, the opposite of ********, or even self-with-other regeneration. If this growing great transitional divide between our really big winners and our truly transient and hopelessly non-transcendent is trending in this politically depressing uneven direction, why is that? Because competition-rooted WinLose zero-sum Capitalism follows successful acquisition of capital to breed further disproportionate acquisition of capital. Cooperative-owned and self-matriculating WinWin trickle down and out to equilaterally trickle up and in to re-trickle down and out requires a bilateral WinWin self and other regenerative equivalent balance co-intention more typical of a matriarchal mentoring nutritional cooperative network than a patriarchal mean economist wanna-be an effective open market mutually free to monoculturally overpower the hapless competition player. Well I was taught if you don't want to share your toys you should never have brought them into the sandbox. That sounds like global median ecopolitical enculturation. I was taught if somebody tries to borrow your toys, hit back. More of a sandbox bully anti-culturation. Imagine how this capitalist sandbox must look to a hungry and thirsty adolescent survivor living in one of Earth's growing ecopolitical deserts, watching further climate pathologies unfold across hopeless skies and swelling tsunamic oceans. I thought this was Mean Economics 404. Yes, but it sounds more hopeful as Cooperative Median Economics 101.