Dear All,
Futurework List was my first when I came onto the Net and I was probably
the most frequent writer in its early year or two. It was quite an
education for me and I gradually changed my views radically as time went
on. For a considerable time I have been silent, firstly because I started
to read economics (a new subject for me) quite widely, sometimes quite
deeply, and secondly because I felt that more practical ideas for
futurework were needed rather than political or economic nostrums.
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 tell me what you think (at my above address
please). Although this site is about a minority pursuit I'm quite sure
that, in due course, it's going to create new jobs. But, more importantly,
there must be dozens, if not hundreds, of other specialisations which could
be developed and, taken together, could amount to a transformation of our
constantly monopolistic-tending business, governmental and educational
institutions. This, of course, will take a generation or so, and the
individual endeavours (like Handlo) will take a lot of work to set up, but
I'm quite convinced now that all this is going to happen, catalysed by the
Net, and that the future of Futurework List lies in encouraging initiatives
of a similar sort and acting as a resource base for potential entrepreneurs
rather than discussing political prejudices.
I don't think anybody, politicians and economists least of all, has any
sure remedy for unemployment. But anything that helps to spread money
around in a voluntary way is, in fact, creating more work.
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Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England
Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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