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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:57
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[Futurework] David Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade
Ed,
If you can't get a job as a programmer, you gat a
job selling insurance, or laying bricks, or anything else that brings in money
(if it's money you want).
Harry
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Good piece, Bob. What we seem to need is a
widely accepted sense of "entitlement" of some kind that galvanizes people
into political action. To get that, people would have to feel they have
a common cause and a gut-level sense of betrayal by the system. I don't
see that in wealthy democracies, where most people are concerned with
maintaining their status or moving up the ladder. There are special
interests and outlooks that make people adhere to one political
philosophy or another, but there is very little sense of injustice or
outrage.
A piece I posted earlier this morning dealt with how
people in the now bust high-tech sector are coping with
unemployment. In reading the article in the Ottawa Citizen, it seemed to
me that there was very little anger among the unemployed techies.
However, there was a lot of frustration, almost as though firing off job
applications left, right and center, should somehow have fixed things up, but,
dammit, it didn't, so what am I still doing wrong? Individualism,
not common cause. Not what is wrong with the system, but what is wrong
with me because I no longer seem to fit.
Ed
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