I asked: >> how about moving to a system where the jobs and thus the ability to >> live of workers are no longer dependent on the greed and happiness of >> employers? where a effort is made to destroy the artificial >> distinction between play and work?
Sandwichman replied: > Or how about "why can't we all just get along?" yes, it's possible to get into meaningless "good feeling" slogans, but that was not my point. Let's review. Tom presented his slogan, endorsed by appeals to three authorities. Though I think it's a good slogan (as long as there's no cut in pay), I suggested that perhaps we'd like to go further than that, to think about (1) going to the root of the problem (capitalist control over jobs) or (2) going to where socialists would like to get (the abolition of the work/play distinction). This is not just a matter of "getting along." I can imagine that the capitalists would resist like crazy (as they likely would resist cutting work hours without a similar or greater cut in pay). By the way, was Keynes in favor of work-hour restriction with no cut in pay? or did he want total wage earned to fall in step with hours? I don't know the answer, but remember that he was the type who thought that the world would be much better off if ruled by people like him instead of those grubby financiers and rentiers... -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
