The only status is whether you can do the job or not. Everything else is just faking it. Competence. Nothing is complex if you know how to do it. What you are all describing is an inability to come up with an answer and so you are blaming history, nature, the world, etc. Fess up. You don't know the answer.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:27 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Not a very positive picture At 14:15 03/10/2010 -0700, Sandwichman wrote (in a civilized and non-abusive way): On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Christoph Reuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you really believe that 21st-century Future of work can be determined > by a 1843 Predator (i.e. a technical illiterate)? You must be kidding. > > Chris The lad doth protest too much, methinks. I'm reminded of the 'family values' Republicans who time and again get caught with their pants down on the wrong side of town. Or the law and order zealots taking kick-backs from mobsters. As a shorter work time advocate even I must confess to the hypocrisy of burning the midnight oil for the cause of leisure. But this one-note refrain of "predator" leaves me especially unconvinced. For starters there's the black and white dichotomy of predators and prey. No colors. No shades of gray. Dichotomy is the cradle for delusion. Precisely. And I would gently suggest to one or two FW subscribers who find it hard to accept, that human society is instinctively predisposed to a multitude of status levels, each generally deferring to the one above, and each generally "predating", as it were, on the next one lower down. And predation occurs in many guises, physical, financial -- even verbal. Keith -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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