interrelations between economic boom and simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Robert Neunteufel
In Europe we hear a lot about the long lasting economic boom and the success in job creation in the USA. On the other hand we hear about the success of bestsellers like Your Money or Your Life or the simple living movement. I'd like to ask the members of this list how they see the interrelations

Re: interrelations between economic boom and simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Thomas Lunde
Robert Neunteufel In Europe we hear a lot about the long lasting economic boom and the success in job creation in the USA. On the other hand we hear about the success of bestsellers like Your Money or Your Life or the simple living movement. I'd like to ask the members of this list how

Re: Irish Workfare

1999-07-10 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Melanie: The latest I read about, as if they haven't suffered enough, is women from the Balkans being lured to the Europe and England to work as prostitutes and your right, it goes on ad infinitum. It's disgusting, it's cruel and most of us are powerless as individuals to do anything

Re: [GKD] ICT and Jobs

1999-07-10 Thread Thomas Lunde
Thomas: Today in the Ottawa Citizen Career Section was an article lamenting the fact the older programmers are having an increasingly difficult time getting hired as Companies find it better to hire younger/cheaper and perhaps help that has just learned the latest language. My brother and I

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Re: interrelations between economic boom and simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Robert Neunteufel wrote: In Europe we hear a lot about the long lasting economic boom and the success in job creation in the USA. On the other hand we hear about the success of bestsellers like Your Money or Your Life or the simple living movement. I'd like to ask the members of this

Re: interrelations between economic boom and simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Ed Weick
In Europe we hear a lot about the long lasting economic boom and the success in job creation in the USA. On the other hand we hear about the success of bestsellers like Your Money or Your Life or the simple living movement. I'd like to ask the members of this list how they see the

Re: interrelations between economic boom and simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Durant
Of course, let us not forget the growing amounts of poor who are forced to a simpler lifestyle by the greed of the rich. not necessarily. The urban poor have to rely on processed food and home entertainment - both produced my sophisticated wasteful, unhealthy global industries. Eva

Re: simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Christoph Reuss
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Brad McCormick wrote: I am generally as suspicious of "virtue" as I am of vice. This is basically a wise attitude, but it shouldn't turn into paranoia. ;-) The self-styled "simple living" movement is one of those things of which I am a priori suspicious. I certainly

Re: simple living

1999-07-10 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Christoph Reuss wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Brad McCormick wrote: I am generally as suspicious of "virtue" as I am of vice. This is basically a wise attitude, but it shouldn't turn into paranoia. ;-) It is not paranoia to be afraid in a threatening situation (-: The self-styled