Mike do you remember when I told the list before 2000 that if they didn't solve the problem of free riders and strategic giving in the serious cultural activities as well as health and education that you would be paying for the c major scale as an issue of intellectual ownership. Everyone was prattling on around Comparative Advantage, Economies of Scale etc. I said that companies were paid by the society to create jobs and more than they needed. That was the social contract and the tax breaks. Now, its all like Harry said: Their desires are unlimited and they will get by paying as little for it as possible. This is now that world and it sucks a big one.
People are blaming the children but where did they learn it? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/magazine/can-you-call-a-9-year-old-a-psych opath.html?ref=magazine REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael gurstein Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:00 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Question? Yes, I must admit to be somewhat taken aback and uneasy going into the Goldcorp Performing Arts Centre at SFU's downtown campus :(. If our public institutions aren't properly funded from public sources i.e. taxes they have little choice but going in that direction... In Canada where this has only become widespread with the neo-liberalism of the later Chretien-->Martin-->to full efflorescence with Harper and his gang it can still be understood as a "bug" not a "feature". M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 10:51 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Question? And I think your posting today from Friedman also indicates another failing of market economies. When public space is sponsored then in some profound way it is no longer public but some sort of public private partnership which is something quite different. Changing NY's central part to Proctor and Gamble park changes everything. The park is still there but it is different in some way. arthur May 12, 2012 This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone By <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/tho maslfriedman/index.html?inline=nyt-per> THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN PORING through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets," I found myself over and over again turning pages and saying, "I had no idea." From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:31 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Question? Has anyone on this list read the book "Why Nation's Fail?" It seems to me that they have made the basic case that I have been making for years that economies based in simple extractive greed are ultimately wasteful, destructive of human live and doomed to fail in the long run no matter what Western political story or profession they are grounded in. Inclusive systems are concerned with balance and supply a logic for justice, morality and equality as a way of society's being able to take advantage of the talent capital of it's children. In the "Extractive" systems the lack of balance and morality ultimately not only kills the human soul, and the planet, but resembles nothing more than an alien space ship that came to earth to steal and then to go home when they've stripped everything away including the beauty, the mountains, forests and things that makes life viable here. REH
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