This is the message the William Baumol tried to deliver to our Florentine Conference in 2004. It was his analysis of the Arts and how there was plenty of money but that the community aspect of building a company was missing due to what Grove calls the "Engineering model". Musicians are also highly skilled and will tell you just how to screw them. That's why the orchestral union is so strong. They need someone to protect them from their own worst community instincts. It comes from ensemble and the bonding that happens in music. It is interesting that the models being brought forth by this Hungarian are very much communitarian and the GOP and the Tea Party would label it as Socialist. Yet Grove doesn't call it that. My late friend Lou Castaldi who was the President of IBM World didn't hesitate to call such thinking socialist and necessary. Communities are necessary even at IBM. What we have today are Aristocrats and Serfs.
Grove also doesn't label it cultural as the Japanese did. The Japanese were blamed for a stagnant economy because they wouldn't do just the opposite of what Grove is advocating. But these things are both local and time bound. Today we have bankers who believe that big national systems operate on the rules of a housewife. I'm not trying to push the classical socialism of the huge states but to work together with both public and private sectors as partners in the development of a whole societal work system. Big has problems and so does local. Working that out together is what I define as politics and worthwhile. This "Let it be" stuff is just lazy and mentally deficient. Thanks for the article Arthur. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 5:07 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [ PFIR ] How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove http://bit.ly/9bJfNW (Bloomberg) ============================ from: -- Lauren Weinstein [email protected] Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
