turpin do we have any statistics on the poor man s divorce from centuries past eugen leitl that s easy divorce didn t happen you seem not to know what a poor man s divorce is it is an old term from the time when divorce was difficult but walking was easy and identity was not so locked down as it is today not every widow had a dead husband i m seeing lack of innovation that doesn t tell us anything except what is happening in eugen leitl s life the more common observation is that the rate of change is increasing do you have any data that might persuade us that what you see is more telling than what others see gerontocracy favors gerontocracy i would have thought that gerontocracy favors biotech research and plenty of young workers to pay taxes note that the fertility rate doesn t result from decisions made by the old but by the young if we want more kids we have to convince people who are in their twenties to become parents _________________________________________________________________ join the world s largest e mail service with msn hotmail URL 