Well, it had to come to this when the road was taken by the West that
relations with an object as a physical extension of the slave was the
meaning of life rather than the growth of consciousness. Poor Maslow
got the credit due to the fact that his Western readers saw his diagram
as steps rather than concentric circles in time. So Mr. Gates is just
the latest version of work for objects sake rather than for the evolution
of the mind and soul.
I'm sure that he considers his work as worthwhile as any you might
devise. The problem is that real personal work (work for its own sake)
is considered play while the manipulation of the environment is the only
"work" there is. As long as you believe that you deserve Gates and the
rest. Maybe we should call it the "Future of Play".
REH
Christoph Reuss wrote:
> Tom Walker quoted
> > MR. GATES: Well, part of the lesson of economics is that there are
> > infinite demands for jobs out there, as long as you want class sizes
> > to be smaller, or entertainment services to be better, there's not a
> > lump of labor where there's a finite demand for a certain number of
> > jobs. And so, as efficiency changes, such as in food production, the
> > jobs shifted to manufacturing. As efficiencies were gained there,
> > those jobs moved into services. In fact, there's no shortage of things
> > that can be done. So, it's not like we're going to run out of jobs here.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Yes, indeed the "qualities" of M$ products are maximising the amount of work
> for PC supporters, network administrators, technical writers (vast manuals!),
> PC course teachers, hardware manufacturers (HW "arms race" to cope with the
> SW's resource wasting), and most of all, "end users". How all this _surplus_
> work (that would be UNnecessary with decent software) should be _paid_, is a
> different question (especially for the "end users"!), and this question
> doesn't seem to bother Mr. Gates (as in the quote above).
>
> The statement that "there's no shortage of things that can be done" is
> trivial and quite crucial in the field of environmental work, but the
> "multi-million dollar question" is always: How can it be funded ?
>
> How sad that all the billions that are being wasted for inefficient M$
> products and its bugs/viruses/crashes are lacking in environmental work
> that would be so much more urgent.
>
> Chris
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> "The problem (and the genius) regarding Microsoft's products is bloat.
> Microsoft's penchant for producing overweight code is not an accident.
> It's the business model for the company ... While [bloatware has] made
> Bill Gates the world's richest guy, it's made life miserable for people
> who have to use these computers and expect them to run without crashing
> or dying." -- John Dvorak, PC Magazine
