Brad, There is one thing that above all is important to the worker.
That is how much take-home pay he gets for the work he does. I don't think he cares how much his boss gets. Except for ______________. (Insert a name there to prove how wrong I am.) But, for everyone other than ________________ work is done to get a reward and for most workers the reward is his wages. There are 196,356 Starbuck bosses and 187,677 Ahabs. Does that make you feel better? Don't forget to archive it. Oh, and if we became instant socialists or communists tomorrow, there would then be 196,356 Starbuck bosses and 187,677 Ahabs. Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:37 PM To: Harry Pollard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A question for Harry it took me several months to remember.... Harry, i believe you asked if a worker would accept a raise of X if his boss got a raise of n * X (I forget if n was = 2 or 4). -- OK. Let's ask a similar question and you tell me the answer: Will a boss accept a worker doing x work for the worker's own self-agenda on the job, if the worker also produces 2x work for the boss, if the alternaive is that the worker does not steal any time from the boss, but also only produces X work for the boss. What's the answer Harry? How many bosses would put productivity ahead of ego? (How many captains of industry are Starbucks and how many are Ahabs? Etc.) \brad mccormick _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
