---------- >From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Timework Web <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "S. Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: FW Viviane Forrester -- L'horreur Economique (fwd) >Date: Tue, Dec 7, 1999, 1:27 am > > >Now! Now! Capitalists never have >seriously proposed that workers are superfluous. Capitalists >love workers! They even have "human resource" departments >and "time and motion study" engineers to optimize their employment. >Capitalists have only required that there always be *some* superfluous >workers (Marx's: "industrial reserve army") to help keep down the >wages of the rest. *********************** Perhaps, rather, the owners of capital love (??!!) us as *consumers* rather than as *workers* ? (But ! they haven't yet worked out how, sustainably, 'we' can be given the money that we 'need' to buy back our production - other, that is, than by plunging us all in debt !) Hugs 2 all j ******************