We have "solved" the production problem but can't seem to deal with the issue of distribution.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:15 PM To: 'Brad McCormick, Ed.D.'; 'Ed Weick' Cc: 'futurework' Subject: RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/ Brad, We are discussing these problems in a society where the power to produce has reached unbelievable proportions (After many have been thrown out of work, the industries they left behind are actually producing more. Productivity hasn't fallen even though there are far fewer workers employed.) Why these "problems"? Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:06 AM To: Ed Weick Cc: futurework Subject: Re: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/ Ed Weick wrote: > One question that this raises is whether what goes on in the decorated > shed is going to become more banal or less. Linda Duxbury, who > teaches business at Carleton University, argues that with the > impending retirement of the baby boom population, employment will > become a sellers market - people who are looking for jobs will be > scarcer and will have the upper hand. But one wonders if they really > will. Perhaps they will be paid a little more, but have to work > longer hours and be run off their feet. Some of the work Duxbury is > doing on work/life balance suggests that people in managerial > positions are already working at the exhaustion level. Good questions and observations, but a bit diferent from some of the points I was trying to make (which is OK...).... We're going to have a lot of aging persons, and relatively few young persons. There probably are different options. We could improve productivity and cut waste (like advertising and competitive duplication of production...) The young persons may be made to work longer hours for less pay to themselves (more of the product of their labor going to support the old people). The old can be made to work until they are physically or mentally unable to work any longer. I.e., retirement will for many persons not be an option. This is the future I think is going to become reality. Women can be coerced and/or cajoled to become more re-productive so that there will be more young persons to provide for the old persons and the earth will become even more conjested by hyper-population. Some persons like this option. It's also possible that life will be better in Europe than here in the U.S., which, as the Chaplin who the army is either prosecuting or persecuting said in the pepers yesterday, he loves America and wants to live here -> just in better times. I think the idea of the "transparent factory" is worth thinking about, even if as something we won't be able to enjoy in our work life because we live in a neocon instead of a social welfare country. Cheers! \brad mccormick --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 12/5/2003 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
