At 12:29 PM 3/26/98 -0500, peter stoyko wrote:
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>Greetings ...
>
>Thank you for your interest in my uk-policy posting. I am only a member
>of the futurework moderated list, so I am not privy to all comments made
>about my contribution. Let me take this opportunity, then, to comment on
>your thoughtful response.
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>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Tom Walker wrote:
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>> Peter,
>>
>> ... As you no doubt are aware, polarization in hours
>> of work is an important dimension in income polarization, as has been
>> documented in several statscan studies.
etc
Thank you both for an erudite, yet practical disussion of these key factors.
As a former manufacturing manager, now pressing for Direct Democracy locally
(and ultimately globally) to politics and all organizations, may I interject
a whimsical comment I heard on Radio Australia (broadcast to Canada; like
Tom, I am in Vancouver -- we listened to Rifkin and our Premier Clark
together -- note that we got little chance to speak, Tom):
"A woman remarked -- its great that the (Aussie) government have created a
million jobs -- its a pity that I need three of them to make a living!"
As most of us are aware, the inequities exist because of huge power
imbalances between gov't, business, labour, 3rd Sector, and all the poor
sods who are left out of all of these categories.
It is time the poor sods had a VOTE (and I mean a REAL vote, with a money
system, an electoral sytem, a governance system, an educational system ...
that are not wildly tilted in favour of the elite). Even most of our MPs are
"poor sods" in that they have ZERO influence on decisions.
sincerely
Colin Stark
