Greetings Economists,
On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Even if my statements are normally infested with what you see as
"common" misconceptions, it's a mistake to treat _all_ of them that
way. It's best to give other people a break now and then, trying to
take people at their own words rather than imposing your categories on
them. It's best to avoid the PC crap of being obsessed with the use of
"incorrect" words. It's not words that matter as much as actions.
Doyle;
I'd druther move back to an economic sort of view of the discussion.
One can economically see more people are sick because they don't have
health insurance because resources are unequally distributed. But
cancer pops up unannounced and kills despite knowing it is 'disease'.
I can economically set up the best delivery of available health care,
but I can't define a person so that they don't die from cancer.
Insurance in capitalism doesn't protect people it throws them off the
insurance rolls because they are already chronically sick with say
diabetes.
I will offer a counter view of organizations that I think is
functional metaphor of problems in organizations. Not sick, but
inadequate production of knowledge, and distribution of information.
The connectedness of people is not up to the tasks set to make the
organization work. These are not schizoid like symptoms, but more
literal measures of how much information one can do. So that in big
corporations they are forced to move work online out of the office and
make information searchable and available.
For example, we all know it's cheap to type messages to the email and
they can be duplicated endlessly. The quality of the message is not
high because the network properties of the message are not present
rather than edited Wiki articles for example. Using your example of
various sorts of schizophrenia, connection is what matters in
information. Thinking that can't connect does not economically work.
It really is little to do with a metaphor of individual lack of
communication connection and more to do with making inexpensive
information available on a mass scale, that others can modify and make
networked a more valuable piece of knowledge.
Does that help get past the irritation you feel with my comments?
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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