Re: Join the team

1997-10-01 Thread Arthur Cordell
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: 22. Today's corporate culture says if you don't join the rest of the 'team' that stays late or takes the laptop home, you just don't fit in and you might as well get out. Agree. Actually the implicit message seems to be: if you are not ready

Re: Debt prosperity

1997-10-01 Thread Arthur Cordell
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: 18. People who have prospered owe something back to the community that has enabled them to prosper. Question is what community do these people feel they belong to. Local, national, global, their affinity plan--including frequent fliers, the

Re: Polarized society

1997-10-01 Thread Arthur Cordell
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: 17. Canada is becoming a polarized society. The gap between good jobs and bad jobs is now accepted as a fact of life by corporate and political leaders. Agree. There is a lot of tut tutting about this but there is virtually nothing being

Re: How much is enough?

1997-10-01 Thread Arthur Cordell
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: 13. The monetarization of work and needs draws attention away from the crucial question: how much is enough? Some years ago a biologist told me that humans vis a vis the planet are like a pest. They will overshoot and collapse. For pests

Re: Debt prosperity

1997-10-01 Thread Kenneth E. Loucks
Other questions. Where is it written that anybody owes anything to anybody? Should they volunteer more than has been agreed by the governing process that they submit to or does paying their taxes meet their obligations? If the prosperer thereby inherits an obligation to the community what is

Re: Join the team

1997-10-01 Thread Kenneth E. Loucks
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Arthur Cordell wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: 22. Today's corporate culture says if you don't join the rest of the 'team' that stays late or takes the laptop home, you just don't fit in and you might as well get out. Agree. Actually the

Census Data on Employment

1997-10-01 Thread Joachim Knop
Hello Futureworkers, I got the following interesting link from an electronic newsletter (AIR -- Association for Institutional Research). Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey : URL:http://stats.bls.gov/cpshome.htm Description: At this Web site you'll find

Re: Polarized society

1997-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
Arthur Cordell wrote, Tom, each of your insights has a number: what about the others...I only see 3 or so of these one-liners. There are 54 of the statements in total. Most of them are one-liners but a few are two-liners. They are part of a research project I'm doing for the Institute

REAL WORLD ECONOMICS

1997-10-01 Thread Jay Hanson
At 10:26 AM 10/1/97 -0700, Harry Pollard wrote: On the other hand, we have enough coal to last us 4,000 years. In England This is not true. Energy from ANY source is subject to the same thermodynamic limits: the "energy cost" of recovery. If the energy profit for U.S. coal continues to drop

FW Re: Polarized society

1997-10-01 Thread Tom Walker
Sally Lerner wrote, Tom - I'd certainly be interested in doing the sort by e-mail and think it would be very interesting to have a large number of FWer do it as well. Sally This is what I was hoping for! I suggest we do the actual sorts off the list for two reasons: 1. to avoid flooding the

FW-L Population increase

1997-10-01 Thread S. Lerner
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RE: FW-L Unemployment-research list in the UK (fwd)

1997-10-01 Thread S. Lerner
From: "R.Thomas -Ray Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FW-L [EMAIL PROTECTED], owner-fw-l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FW-L Unemployment-research list in the UK (fwd) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 97 21:33:00 BST Encoding: 25 TEXT Joining details etc. The unemployment-research list is hosted by