This is a longish piece forwarded to me by an FWer. I am passing it along
to the list.
arthur cordell
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The Nation
February 16, 1998
Broken Faith
Why We Need to Renew the Social Compact
By Robert B. Reich
Presidents come and go in America these days, but inequality
Hi
I am greatly enjoying the wealth of info on this listserv on history,
economics,
sociology, etc., pertaining to work. When I find something particularly
interesting I copy and paste it into my FutureWork document. It now stands
at 1601 pages!
A search on "digital" brought up material
Mass production and globalisation is necessary
if we want to sustain sustainably the earth's
population. That is why we cannot go back
to some quaint early form of capitalism.
Eva
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Mike Hollinshead:
Capitalist ambition seems to be a transmuted form of ascent, where
spiritual ascent is replaced by symbolic ascent or ascent in other forms
e.g. progress.
Capitalism seems to flourish during periods when there is an emphasis
within the culture on people as individuals, deriving