At 10:58 98-07-24 +0100, S. Lerner wrote:
I had only one response to the message below (many thanks, Bob--I'm still
digesting your ideas). Is everyone at the cottage? I know that FWers must
have some really great sites to suggest--including some of your own. So
send me some suggestions--we
At 09:30 98-03-01 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
To answer Andres multiplication of population by Basic Income Grant is
answered by the explanation that everyone is entitled to the Basic Income,
given that they have no income or income below the basic income amount.
This in essence puts an economic
My suggestion of starting the Basic Income with the 18-25 year old was
hinting at a possible point of departure. Let them (our youth) do with it
the way they see fit. I'm sure it couldn't be worst. Who knows, true
"educators" might just emerge from such a crowd of liberated (financially)
youths.
At 13:14 98-02-26 -0500, Bob McDaniel wrote:
Books by Beniger (The Control Revolution) and Kelly (Out of Control)
suggest, to me, the popularization of the ideas of cybernetics
(communication and control). Absorption by the general populace of such
ideas, reflected in current art (drugs and
At 08:48 98-02-27 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
A $1000 GAI is $30 billion IF AND ONLY IF you account for it as an
additional cost, over and above current program spending. By the same token,
a bicycle may look expensive IF you already own and maintain a car and will
continue to do so after you buy
At 13:03 98-02-25 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
Jim Dator expressed his interest in documenting the early debates and
responses to automation. The termed reputedly was coined in the early 1950s
by a guy named Diebold (can't find his first name at the moment). What to
do about automation was a big
At 19:00 98-02-19 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote:
Given that the concept of a Basic
Income, Guaranteed Annual Income or some other variant on this theme, what
would the philosophy be that could justify giving every man, woman and
child a Basic Income paid on a weekly basis with no other
At 13:01 98-01-13 -0500, Arthur Cordell wrote:
in futurework list
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:04:35 -0800
From: Robert Theobald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: text of speech to be given in Toronto
After
At 13:29 98-01-12 -0500, P.A. Gantt wrote:
Tools... Where did you find something like this?
To reassure myself of
my lucidity I thought of applying a little PCSTYLE DOS program to the text.
I really can't remember - the thing is dated 86-01-15. In those days these
little gems did not come
At 11:01 98-01-10 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
[snipped Tom Walker's comment on Greenspan's ...(see below for reason)]
Retaining here a few of Greenspan's words as quoted by Tom Walker (for
emphasis of what is to come below)
But deflation can be detrimental for reasons that go beyond those that
At 08:49 98-01-04 -1000, Jim Dator wrote:
I remain interested in such a discussion too.
Jim Dator
So do I, very much, not so much for myself as for my children and
grand-children.
As one of the lurkers, to whom Alan Scharf refers, I continue lurking this
list in the hope that some results
I've read elsewhere also that there is some 5 or 6 percent unemployed in
U.S. prisons who (or should I say which) are not counted.
Maybe one step forward in the future work subject might be accomplished if
we counted the "employeds" and compared them to the total population,
country by
Ken Walker attributes a whole mouthful to me (Mr. Gouin). This was based on
a quote by Thomas Lunde from Le Monde Diplomatique, without giving the
author or the title of the article it came from. Therefore, without getting
into an argument of how I view apples or oranges I'll leave it to
At 14:32 97-11-23 -0500, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle.
I would argue that a big factor in the present-day economic
situation, at least in the United States and other
proudly neo-laissez faire countries is that we have forgotten
this wisdom of
At 09:14 97-11-26 +, Keith Hudson wrote:
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I don't know how many of the original list are still with Futurework but
some may be interested to see what I've been doing in the last few months
as a practical endeavour. This is at www.handlo.com and you are warmly
invited to visit it and
The following might interest a number of subscribers of this list. I have
found the French version of Le Monde Diplomatique most interesting,
professional and very insightful. The published articles eventually find
themselves on the Web site plus they have an exhaustive and well classified
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Please accept my apologies for directing the above query to the list.
Considering myself an "oldies" on the net, having been communicating over
forty years, I can assure everyone how red-
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