Brad, A little more on this.
I rather think that in the natural order of things people have families. Certainly, not having much money makes raising a family a difficult proposition - but the rewards are huge. Six of us arrived in Canada (four children) in the mid fifties. Now, our extended family is 30. We all like each other and are also attached to our English cousins. A close friend of mine - pretty well heeled - has no children because of global overpopulation - a pretty potty argument in my estimation. But different strokes, I suppose. I doubt anyone refuses to have children to avoid dilution of the 'labor pool'. Nor do I think that that in the West children are conceived to be a personal social security system. In the LDCs this is often true, but not here. Harry ********************************* Henry George School of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ********************************* -----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Cordell, Arthur: ECOM'; 'Christoph Reuss'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] From 9 to 5 to 24/7 Harry Pollard wrote: > Of course things would be different if there was a shortage of > available labor instead of an abundance. > There are *so many reasons* for the not-well-to-do to have few or no children, including to be able to apply their meager earnings undiluted to meeting their own needs, and also to reducing the pool of available "labor power". I know there are also down-side considerations (I, for one, would not like to understand that the reason I was born was to be my parents' "old age and disability insurance", however), but at least our great universities could do the relevant research, to "quantify" the option space, couldn't they? \brad mccormick > Harry > > ********************************* > Henry George School of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > 818 352-4141 > ********************************* > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Cordell, Arthur: ECOM > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:19 AM > To: Christoph Reuss; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] From 9 to 5 to 24/7 > > As a business consultant in NY City I once had a boss who no > matter what time I arrived in the office, he was always there > earlier. > > And he often left a note on my chair asking for something. On > the note he always put down the time. This, probably, to > underscore that I should have been there earlier. > > In the aged of Blackberries and cellphones I can see how this > ex-boss of mine would have a "field day" terrorizing his > employees. > > arthur > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Christoph Reuss > Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 7:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] From 9 to 5 to 24/7 > > > Ed Weick wrote: > >> When I was in my teens I spent fourteen months working in a >> > sawmill which > >> was part of a huge pulp and paper mill. We worked three >> > shifts, changing > >> every couple of weeks. Day shift was 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Night >> > shift was 5 > >> p.m. to midnight; and Graveyard was midnight to 8 a.m. It's >> > probable that > >> people who work in large operations that are difficult to shut >> > down and > >> start up still work shifts like that. >> > > Shift work is still of the "9 to 5" kind, albeit shifted. "24/7" > is > different -- it refers to an around-the-clock availability of the > wage > slave that is fostered by e-mail and cell-phones. People have > been fired > because they dared to turn off their private cell-phone (during > their > "leisure" time!) so they didn't "see" a new order from the boss > in time. > (Self-employed "one-person companies" are also often exposed to > "24/7", > waiting for orders from customers.) > > The shift workers of the old days couldn't even dream of such a > level > of exploitation -- they at least had their leisure and sleep > times and > their weekends for themselves. > > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
