If the problem was that everyone was having a virus that occurred every fifty six years or so, would we ascribe the answer to economics or would we demand something from Public Health? Where is the root of morality and human compassion, the desire for respect and the expansion that can only come through enlightened human interaction? I don't think we find that in economics. Do you? It sounds like an old fashioned "Under conceptualization/ poor supervision" problem. Or maybe just idolatry.
Wolff's point about the economic system being inadequate to the job seems to ignore the existence of other human domains that when developed properly, do the job. Preacher Moyers is always filled with hope. Perhaps knows something the bankers don't. Other Domains "work" under the police and slavery. Politics does under a authoritarian tyrant. Education does under an authoritarian teacher. Science does under an authoritarian scientist. But who wants to give up their lives to the whims of a tyrant? What develops the human body and spirit and the dream of "Team agility?" Lean and Agile was as hopeless as Marxism due to the inadequacy of the human instrument. Solitary individualism is bankrupt. Group pathologies are as real as individual ones. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:52 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Rampant capitalism etc. I've taken a quick look at his website, Sally, but didn't have time to see if there were any real solutions there. http://www.rdwolff.com/ Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Sally Lerner <mailto:[email protected]> To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Rampant capitalism etc. Thanks for the Moyer-Wolff interview, Ed. Be interesting to see what Wolff has to offer by way of "solutions". Sally _____ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ed Weick [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:15 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Rampant capitalism etc. In today's Alternet: "Moyers: Rampant Capitalism Has Created a Social Disaster -- How Do We Right the Ship?" http://www.alternet.org/economy/moyers-rampant-capitalism-has-created-social -disaster-how-do-we-right-ship?akid=10103.1074389.yqKFpz <http://www.alternet.org/economy/moyers-rampant-capitalism-has-created-socia l-disaster-how-do-we-right-ship?akid=10103.1074389.yqKFpz&rd=1&src=newslette r799467&t=10&paging=off> &rd=1&src=newsletter799467&t=10&paging=off Long, but well worth reading, especially the parts on how, on the one hand, we view and idealize capitalism as a system and, on the other, how we use it to promote our interests via the market and politics. Ed _____ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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