Good question on the air travel. More sensible questions like that need to be asked IMHO.
As for the guaranteed income. Could this be a recognition of the coming 40% unemployment? Wouldn't it make more sense to create jobs. Community jobs that enhance life. Quality of life jobs that make people more competent, happier and more communitarian? Arts jobs in America create eleven dollars for every one dollar invested by the government. The mining companies in Britain did it with brass bands. They bought uniforms and instruments for the miners because of two things. 1. was that they needed good teams that worked together in the mines, like a band or orchestra and 2. it improved the quality of life and made the men less alcoholic and more family oriented and better workers. For a while the British brass were the greatest players in the world. Now the mines have closed and the money dried up and the bands are more generic like the rest of the world. But for a while that high hat on the British guard made sense and didn't look overblown because of the magnificent sound when they marched together in time. Why make such a drab world with just welfare payments? Create something. Maybe Abu Dubai is sending rich Arabs here to watch the "gadje" to "let their women know that they don't have it so bad after all." Think of all of that soaring architecture in the desert. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Two bits from the press: (1) Emirates Air (2) Guaranteed income Just got my Saturday Globe & Mail (20 Nov 2010) today because I was distracted on the weekend. So I have a question: Why does Emirates Air want three flights a day to Canada (Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver)? That's between, say 500 and 1,400 seats depending on the aircraft. Is Abu Dhabi the main travel hub for half of Asia and Africa, the Newark of the Middle East? Or are there that many oil execs and Arab-money hustlers shuttling back and forth every day? I don't get it. Who are the potential passengers? And on an entirely different note, an article raised the notion of guaranteed income for poor people. Again. Is that a straw in the wind? Or tarbaby to draw dangerous progressives from cover? Or what? The author seems to have a pretty sensible take on it. What's up? - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
