Thanks Mike, been there, done that. That was the premise of the White Paper I did for the Florentine Symposium in 2004 where I traced this back to the 1880s in the Culture market of America. This stuff has been going on for a long time. Before it was International, it was Interstate commerce in the U.S. where whole societies would be decimated by the market on the whims of the wealthy. T.Boone Pickens and Karl Icahn did this to my parents home town in Bartlesville Oklahoma when they raided Phillips Petroleum and Conoco in the 1970s. It didn't matter that they nearly destroyed a city with a unique culture and great works of American Architecture. The city had the highest rate of college graduates in the country prior to the raid. An International Arts Festival and Phillips Petroleum, (on the Cherokee model - the President of the company was the Chief of the Cherokee Nation) provided services to the poor and the Elderly of the community. Afterwards all of that was gone and their magnificent hospital was destroyed as well.
The system has just elevated this to the International level as they proselytized the world for American capitalism. Does it bother any of the Judeo -Christians on the list that the model for wall street is a "Golden Bull"? Now the average person on the street is going the way of the Arts, the Indians, the Schools and the Medical profession. Welcome to my world. Interestingly, a surgeon who studies voice with me (and a child of affluence) has just come out for socialized medicine. She figures that a salary is far preferable to the current capitalist practice of private medicine. She's not the first MD I've heard that from. Donald Schoen used the "Professions" as his model for the future in his books from the Sloan School at MIT. Peter Drucker said the Orchestra was the model for management of the future with it's CEO and horizontal level of expertise amongst the players. Only the current system will not develop expertise and therefore Drucker and Schoen's models are failures. As Keith points out the current system will only develop servants and nannies. Mike, Fernande knows about this. This was what we were looking into at the Florentine Conference where she gave such valuable assistance in 2004. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:31 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; [email protected]; 'p2p research network' Subject: [Futurework] FW: [IP] The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it Read this article! M -----Original Message----- From: Dave Farber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 8:47 PM To: ip Subject: [IP] The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it Begin forwarded message: From: A Lukaszewski <[email protected]> Date: July 24, 2010 1:22:23 PM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it Hello, Dave. I haven't seen this on IP and thought it might be of interest to the list. It contains the best discussion I have seen recently on the economic polarisation of America. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-ou t-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html Add to this that even the CIA recognizes that 1 in 8 people in the US live at or below the poverty line and only 6.24% of the country makes $100k+ per year and the picture is bleak indeed. Best, Albert <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=125975&id_secret=125975-23791a65> Modify Your Subscription | <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=125975&id_secret=125975-8f27 1c78> Unsubscribe Now <http://www.listbox.com> !DSPAM:2676,4c4b3582177554211319542!
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