I am forwarding this piece from the NY Times. It says something about our
economy and maybe globalization, but I am puzzled whether its 'good' or
'bad' or 'both'.
arthur cordell
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Monday, July 19, 1999
Prosperity Builds Mounds of Cast-Off Clothes
The N
Ray Evans Harrell:
>It is inconceivable to one who has ridden the "can" down 800
>feet into the cold earth never knowing when a stone would come
>loose from the cribbing and meet your head leaving you dead
>before work even began, that this work would be glorified.
>It is inconceivable that there
Thomas:
Again, I find these comments having something to say that relates to
Arthur's Posting on used clothes.
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>From: tom abeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Durability is an interesting idea, let me puzzle on it and get your
> thoughts
>
> First, non-durability or a short half-life seem
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>From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Steve Kurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think we need also to add the enormous entropy of the
> obsolescence of knowledge. This is sometimes stated
> more "positively" as a shortening "half-life" of
> knowledge, so that by the time
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>From: "Cordell, Arthur: DPP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Much of my thinking and angst is to develop ways in which the broad
> middle class can continue to be a broad middle class.
Thomas:
I would reference my answer here to todays posting on used clothing from
you. The fact that the
Thomas:
I thought I would immediately judge this as bad, given my predeliction
towards simplicty. However, as I read it through, I found myself with
conflicting pro's and con's. On the one hand, it is a classical example of
Reagan's trickle down theory, in that somewhere down the line of excess
Brad wrote:
> As far as I am concerned there has been no
> computer revolution, and certainly no Internet revolution,
> so long as almost everybody has to drive (or take Metro North)
> a loong distance, wasting lots of energy and lots
> of precious *life time*) COMMUTING.
Right! And much time is
"Thomas Lunde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just recently, I was reading
>a posting about all the early computer tapes, discs, hard drives, etc that
>we are losing for two reasons, one the storage devices are deteriotating and
>two we are losing the disk drives, operating systems, formats, in wh
And I would guess that in xxx years from now people will look back on the
commuters, subway riders and busy busy people and say what? You mean people
went into a Kafka/Mondrian environment and parroted the party line just to
get paid. No wonder there is so little incentive to break the work/inco
