Arthur you may be talking about the "why" based in Monarchy and the European love for it but here are the questions around the HOW they did it. Europe flows from the provincial poles of being tied to their Almighty Father (Capital Elites) and Wanting to Separate and Individuate from Him (Socialism). In short, Freud probably said it best as he described it's processes that he saw within his own ethnic group. But that was just a mirror of a greater process that included the larger Nation groups of Europe and led them into two wars that killed 100 million people in the 19th and 100 million more in the 20th centuries. I guess it was preferable to the starving in China. At least die fighting each other. Today I would suggest these models for what's happening grew from the America version of these things that were flourishing as a result of the World Wars in Europe. The first experiments were with culture with the Great Crash as an opportunity to try automation out on a helpless segment of society. 1929 was when Lean and Agile was born but they needed an experiment try it out just as they needed American Blacks and Guatemalan and American Indians to try out the cure for Syphilis
Outrageous? No. Might all of this stuff with the banks have something to do with the model of temporary work and short term projects described by the terms "Lean and Agile" and a serious lack of central planning into its implications before it was instituted in the academy and in the banks? Lean and Agile didn't just happen in the late 20 th century. Lean and Agile has been a part of the movie business and recording business from its beginning but what is now destroying those businesses is the dissolution of the contract with labor that was built around residual income in the long dry periods between jobs. That residual income meant that industry experts paid peanuts could be retained and available and have a life that made it possible not to move one in the dry spells. Today, the banks are reducing residual income and replacing it with the idea of Network Marketing where the person has to continually renew that income by original customer maintenance. You have to keep them hooked on your product or the whole scheme collapses but that way residual income becomes regular income and the shareholders get to run up their surplus. Your regular workforce through outsourcing and downsizing and reducing the value of virtuosic skills (Productivity) has now been turned to the temporary job model and life for the middle has collapsed. That happened in the economics classes at MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU and John's Hopkins while no one was looking. Teamed up with the "Strategic Giving" classes at Harvard and elsewhere, for the elite, which encouraged "free riding" as the "game of wealth" meant that you reduced the patriotism of that entire class to a pathological ideal. Today, you don't have prayer of getting a sensible examination of these issues. They were experimented and developed by the wealthy patronage model in my business beginning with it automation in the 1930s. I'm not convinced anyone sees it still except the Unions and they are now impotent because they've lost the good sense of their base. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 10:32 AM To: 'Keith Hudson'; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] Jumping with delight In speaking with a retired govt economist the other day he thought that Europe is in the position today that legions of German troops couldn't achieve during WW2. Which is that it is has the power to set the agenda for the future of Europe, one way or the other. Arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:14 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Jumping with delight One had only got to see Angela Merkel jumping up in her seat with every German goal (all four of them!) scored in its soccer match with Greece last night, to realize that she's not going to allow Germans to subsidize the rest of the Eurozone in any significant quantity for much longer. The Eurozone faces only two alternatives now. It can only be some sort of attempt at dictatorial take-over by some newly-concocted Eurozone entity in order to impose budgetary control on all member governments whatever their different socio-economic cultures, or it will be an unpeeling of the Eurozone in one way or another. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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