Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade

[Ed Weick]

Title: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n  Trade vs. Modern Trade

If the Elders won't do it, who will?   REH   Yes, Ray, I would like to do my duty as an Elder.  I have a magic stick which I take to the lawn of Parliament Hill and shake at the politicians who are debating how the economic system might be fixed - or not.  Nothing happens.  The magic has gone out of my stick!   Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Evans Harrell To: Ed Weick ; Harry Pollard ; 'Robert E. Bowd' ; 'Thomas Lunde' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade   ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Weick To: Ray Evans Harrell ; Harry Pollard ; 'Robert E. Bowd' ; 'Thomas Lunde' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:33 AM Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade No Ed, it is just money, like economics and all of that stuff.    The same choices as making symphony orchestras only play old stuff because no one will make the effort to understand anything complex that hasn't been around for a hundred and fifty years.   Shall I call it Beethoven as "mud wrestling?"    Or are they just getting by with the most for the least effort?    Least effort never got you anymore than banal entertainment.    Now you complain?    Fix the economic system!   REH   Next life, Ray.   Ed   ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Evans Harrell To: Ed Weick ; Harry Pollard ; 'Robert E. Bowd' ; 'Thomas Lunde' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade   ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Weick To: Harry Pollard ; 'Robert E. Bowd' ; 'Thomas Lunde' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade I do think that it's a little more than money in most cases.  It could be respect, including self-respect, stability - things like that.   Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Pollard To: 'Ed Weick' ; 'Robert E. Bowd' ; 'Thomas Lunde' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:57 PM Subject: RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade 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    ******************************************** 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 ********************************************     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       --- 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