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
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
Thomas:
In many cases, it is not money you want - it is money you need. As you need it, you are put in the position of a form of slavery to whatever is offered to you. Ed and I grew up with the idea that you should - within certain parameters - do what you want - that to me is called opportunity - the other is a form of coercion - do it or starve.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
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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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