Nuttiness..........................

Two wee excerpts from this post at the National Review:  Professor:  Learning Math Can Cause 'Collateral Damage' to Society

“Reasoning without meanings provides a training in ethics-free thought,” Paul Ernest writes in “The Ethics of Mathematics: Is Mathematics Harmful?” — a chapter of his book The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today.

“Money and thus mathematics is the tool for the distribution of wealth,” he writes. “It can therefore be argued that as the key underpinning conceptual tool mathematics is implicated in the global disparities in wealth.”

If academics were as interested in the creation of wealth as they are in the distribution of wealth, the world could be a much nicer place.   Talk of wealth distribution without talk of wealth creation always reminds me of this line from my favorite Ten Years After song:

Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more

Then what?