James Robertson wrote: > One of its outcomes could be a liberation of work
Liberation _from_ work, rather... (outsourced to 3rd/2nd world) > As that liberation takes place, more and more of us will work > more freely under our own control than conventional employment > has allowed. We will do what we see to be our own good, useful > and rewarding work รณ for ourselves, other people and society > as a whole. > > How relevant are those ideas in 2006? Have they been by-passed > by the economic orthodoxy of Thatcherism and Reaganism, by the > collapse of state-based communism and socialism, and by the > unstoppable 'progress' of globalised capitalism over the past > twenty years? > > In my 2006 Preface I answer No, they haven't been by-passed. > Quite the reverse. That answer is correct if you consider rats racing down to the bottom of the waste-pipe for the last crumb to be "working freely under (their) own control". Chris __________________________________________________________ "A pessimist is an optimist with experience." --Chuck Daly _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
