> -----Original Message----- > From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On > Behalf Of Charlie Bell > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:54 PM > To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion > Subject: Re: Russia (Was What is wealth?) > > > No, by "well-educated" I mean professionals - accountants, lawyers, > medics etc.
I thought that was the case, but thanks for the clarification. > Cyprus was full of them working bar, waiting, or worse being exploited > in strip clubs. (It wasn't like London where an attractive woman could > make good money doing "exotic dancing" a couple of times a week - > these girls were often being forced to have sex with customers). Well, as you know, that's particularly repugnant to me, both as the husband of an abuse victim (who later specialized in social work in working with victims) and as the father of daughters. I have heard about this sort of thing with uneducated poor Eastern European women, but not about it happening to the well educated. It's not that the evilness of this forcing is less if a woman is undereducated, but this strikes me as countering the proposal that education is the ticket out of poverty and exploitation. One question comes up, and you may or may not be able to answer it. Were the professionals allowed to work menial jobs but not professional jobs just because of local laws, customs, prejudices, etc., or do you think that the education system in Russia has fallen to the point where, for example, you'd never want to have a Russian surgeon operating on you? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
