On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
But, that has nothing to do with the fact that increases in productivity
are good. Without them, there wouldn't be additional wealth to distribute.
Productivity actually creates wealth. If someone wants to argue with that,
OK, but I think that is fairly easily proven.
I certainly wouldn't argue against that, but the problem there is that the wealth doesn't go to the worker.
I've put in, many times over the years, more than 40 hours per week for various employers, none of whom felt disposed to pay overtime because it was code hacking, and "sometimes the work is like that" -- yet when it was slow we were still expected to be there all 40 hours, all week. It was minimum 40, no overtime pay, no comp time.
Very high productivity and a hell of a lot of money rolling into the coffers of millionaires. And after one too many bad management decisions, finances went south and it was sayonara for yours truly. Not even a severance package because the money wasn't there. (Well, it was, all $40 million of it, but it wasn't *there*.)
The wealth distribution in this nation is virtually nonexistent, and the wealthy are just fine with that. The rest of us can go f*ck ourselves. (If someone wants to argue with *that*, OK, but it's even more easily proven. ;)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" Excerpt at http://www.nightwares.com/books/Flat_Out.pdf
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