Ed,
If you can't get a job as a programmer, you gat a job selling insurance,
or laying bricks, or anything else that brings in money (if it's money you
want).
Harry ******************************************** From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:45 AM To: Robert E. Bowd; Thomas Lunde; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade Good piece, Bob. What we seem to need is a widely
accepted sense of "entitlement" of some kind that galvanizes people into
political action. To get that, people would have to feel they have a
common cause and a gut-level sense of betrayal by the system. I don't see
that in wealthy democracies, where most people are concerned with maintaining
their status or moving up the ladder. There are special interests and
outlooks that make people adhere to one political philosophy or another,
but there is very little sense of injustice or outrage.
A piece I posted earlier this morning dealt with how
people in the now bust high-tech sector are coping with
unemployment. In reading the article in the Ottawa Citizen, it seemed to
me that there was very little anger among the unemployed techies.
However, there was a lot of frustration, almost as though firing off job
applications left, right and center, should somehow have fixed things up, but,
dammit, it didn't, so what am I still doing wrong? Individualism, not
common cause. Not what is wrong with the system, but what is wrong with me
because I no longer seem to fit.
Ed
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Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade
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