One in six homes in the UK now has no one working. How about a right to work in which we can all turn up at a labour exchange and be given work or pay if they can't use us? This would cover most of us, with the exceptions of a few disabilities. Not much different from the New Deal, yet we could really change the employment relation with such a scheme. What I like best about it is making business compete for labour after a guaranteed minimum and security of employment is an ever present in the system. Such a simple change would have many effects.
I offer this as an example of a thought experiment. My view is that we are trapped in many arguments because we really don't have them and thus don't understand what objects we have made so solid we can't change them. Many people will object to the idea that we should just be able to turn up and get on with some work and get paid a decent wage. If we are really interested in argument we should want to know why, partly in order to discover just what we are in the existing system. Thought experiment in science progresses rather like this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
