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The way to make us all better? Share things equally........simple.

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Russia tried that in 1917 took a long time to find out it was wrong and unworkable.

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What I'm talking about is greedy people being proper human beings and sharing voluntarily, will never happen but I can dream.....

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Twiz - I like the idea where the community have their own money or tokens, a carpenter does work for someone - they in turn use their skill to provide him with food or work.... The problem with that is it must be a rare thing these days to find the 'skills' to make it work nationally...

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There are new laws on the way which could
make pensioners even poorer.

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Maybe the first thing to knock on the head is the concept of owning as much as possible.

I saw a news item, many years ago, on car pooling/sharing where the local residents gave up personal car ownership and, instead, had a fleet of cars that they would book out for us as and when they needed them - this is the closest I could find for it on the net http://www.managenergy.net/resources/788

The problem with your scenario Pats (as was put to me when I once suggested it) is that you would get brain surgeons wanting to know why they should study 7+ years but get no more recompense than a carpenter. I love the idea of this scenario but I can see it falling at the first hurdle because of that problem.

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From what I've seen so far (and I could easily have missed bits), this will only affect affluent pensioners?

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MEDIAN average is , from memory, the average of a series of numbers with the anomalies or extremes taken out.

For example

5+5 + 5 + 5 +100 = 120 giving an average of 24

take out the odd high figure of 100
& you get the more realistic average of 5

Perhaps someone cleverer than me can improve on that.

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Many thanks Robert but I really am numerically challenged and I can't even figure out where the 24 came from

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There was me thinking that I was the only one who couldn't work that out.