Chile Forum

ColoColoUSA wrote: Camila is a gorgeous commie. I would be thrilled to be part of a union with her.

He *does* have a sense of humour.

Most of the male university students here and a substantial number of the female students also dream of such an, um, union.

Camilla is locally known as "Allende con tetas."

We'll let her know of your interests.

Px,

I find it curious that you are holding ColoColo to a higher standard of orthography than is the norm for this forum.

We'll let her know of your interests.

Don't toy with me now.

ColoColoUSA wrote:

I will stick to my view that there are other factors rather than inequality which determine crime rates more meaningfully.

Essentially, what other factors could contribute to such high crime rates besides income inequality?

The culture of envy? Rampant drug use? Lack of education?

Please, the measures listed are not going to meet your presupposed conclusions. You're already presupposing that the system itself is not flawed and therefore the problems lies with "personal responsibility".

What a thread. You blink and another 50 postings.

Look I'm a data driven guy (I have a background in theoretical physics, but ended up on the dark side of finance). Provide me with the data, we'll do the analysis and then we draw the conclusion.

No point in trying to find other links or explanations. I believe that there is a human tendency anyway to identify too many causal relationships, where there is just randomness.

Fugger wrote: I believe that there is a human tendency anyway to identify too many causal relationships, where there is just randomness.

The true physicist in you is coming out. I might have added "where there is just dogma-supporting randomness." That is assuming that there is really an interest in discovering causality versus the crowd-pleasing coincidence. We could all make a good case for the relationship between drinking Nescafé and ending up with felony convictions in Chile. In fact, that is a study I believe should be funded.

I submit that the income-differences explanation is essentially a religious matter, unsuited to objective scrutiny and the banality of pedestrian causality, an imposition of a sort of Ptolemaic cosmology and correspondingly contrived calculation. Isn't part of many religions an attempt to comfort those with failed aspirations by providing some claptrap invention to excuse their shortcomings and lack of success as not of their own making? I'm telling you, Nescafé is truly at the root of all this evil. The sooner the Chileans learn to make and drink good, fresh-ground coffee, the sooner we can expect a tapering off of the crime rates. So long as there is Nescafé, there will be darkness, plague, hunger, and variations in PSU test scores from one student to another.

patagoniax wrote:

Fugger wrote:

I'm telling you, Nescafé is truly at the root of all this evil. The sooner the Chileans learn to make and drink good, fresh-ground coffee, the sooner we can expect a tapering off of the crime rates. So long as there is Nescafé, there will be darkness, plague, hunger, and variations in PSU test scores from one student to another.

You may be on to something! Another study worth undertaking would be on the coffee drinking habits of the controlling 2,000 families plus the wannabes in Las Condes and Vitacura. My guess is that at least half of them drink Nescafe.

john wrote:

patagoniax wrote:

Fugger wrote:

I'm telling you, Nescafé is truly at the root of all this evil. The sooner the Chileans learn to make and drink good, fresh-ground coffee, the sooner we can expect a tapering off of the crime rates. So long as there is Nescafé, there will be darkness, plague, hunger, and variations in PSU test scores from one student to another.

You may be on to something! Another study worth undertaking would be on the coffee drinking habits of the controlling 2,000 families plus the wannabes in Las Condes and Vitacura. My guess is that at least half of them drink Nescafe.

John,

Sad but true, after dinner last night at the table of the Matriarch of one of those families we had a great med roast Colombian coffee, it was pointed out that it was in my honour we had cafe cafe. She forgets I don’t drink coffee after noon but the thought was there. After a very good 5 course meal and great wine, there would have been instant coffee, at least in my many years here I see I have changed some palates a bit.

john wrote:

patagoniax wrote:

Fugger wrote:

I'm telling you, Nescafé is truly at the root of all this evil. The sooner the Chileans learn to make and drink good, fresh-ground coffee, the sooner we can expect a tapering off of the crime rates. So long as there is Nescafé, there will be darkness, plague, hunger, and variations in PSU test scores from one student to another.

You may be on to something! Another study worth undertaking would be on the coffee drinking habits of the controlling 2,000 families plus the wannabes in Las Condes and Vitacura. My guess is that at least half of them drink Nescafe.

And these crimes would be?

Ah, never mind. I went to another thread and found the tale of the rich kid trying to steal the cell phone from one of the forum members who was at the gym . I think that event relates to the income disparity and leveling equation. But I am nevertheless certain we could force a causal link to drinking Nescafé somewhere in his past.

A rich kid or rich people committing crimes does not eliminate the fact that vast majority of people committing crimes or being incarcerated for crimes are in the lower class.

I also don't understand you insist it's a Chilean thing either as the level of petty crimes AND white collar crimes is just as rampant if not more so in the States. Have you ever read the media section of any State Securities Board website? It's loaded with white collar fraudulent behavior. The spread of the behavior among the explosion of mortgage fraud can be linked to the deregulation within the FIRE sector.

ColoColoUSA wrote:A rich kid or rich people committing crimes does not eliminate the fact that vast majority of people committing crimes or being incarcerated for crimes are in the lower class.

Has anyone in the past 25 or so posts suggested such an elimination? Are you attempting to prosecute a thought-crime where we have no evidence that one has been committed within our community? More importantly, have you been drinking Néscafe?

More importantly, have you been drinking Néscafe?

I eat a lot of Sahne Nuss.