Brad,
You said:
"I am still slowly reading Karl Polanyi's _The Great Transformation_, which
reaffirms my belief that the economy should be a part of social life rather
than social life being tyrannized and suffocated by the economy."
The economy is merely an analysis of how people interact with each other,
how they work an exchange with each other. So, it can hardly tyrannize and
suffocate anything.
The thing that can tyrannize and suffocate is politics. What is taught as
economics is really politics. What causes all the problems is politics.
Concepts such as the GNP and the CPI and most of the other acronyms have
nothing to do with economics. They are calculated (poorly) for the benefits
of governments - for the benefit of politicians.
Let's not demonize "economics".
Harry
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Brad wrote:
>Ed Weick wrote:
> >
> > My wife worked for a temp for a time before we were married. She felt that
> > she would never be sure of where she would be working, what she would be
> > doing, for whom, and under what conditions.
>[snip]
> > She was in her twenties at the time, so she could take it, but I
> > would hate to see people in that position for any length of time.
>[snip]
>
>Yes, that is another thing we have lost in the past 30
>years: Looking forward to less stressful work
>as we get older -- having to "take less of it" as our
>capacity to "take it" diminishes.
>
>Please don't get me wrong. I don't think it is right to
>overwork and underpay young persons, and for older people
>to rise to positions where they inflict what they suffered on
>the next generation. But I do think that experience
>should count for a lot, and young persons do have a lot
>more "youthful energy".
>
>As of this writing, I am more or less coping with keeping
>up as a computer programmer with 25 year olds and
>even 25 year olds on work visas from Asia, but
>at over twice their age, it is very wearying and
>I wonder when I will fall and "break my hip" (metaphorically)
>or however else get left behind. I certainly
>have not *advanced* in 30 years (and am painfully
>aware that a large part of the reason for
>that surely has been my chronic dissatisfaction with
>just doing tech work and being too easily distracted by
>such seductions as getting a doctorate in human communication
>in my 40s, instead of learning the Microsoft Win32 SDKs).
>
>I am still slowly reading Karl Polanyi's _The Great
>Transformation_, which reaffirms my belief that
>the economy should be a part of social life rather
>than social life being tyrannized and
>suffocated by the economy.
>
>"Yours in discourse..."
>
>+\brad mccormick
>
>--
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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