CB, thanks for "The age of the superfluous worker" from the NY Times.
It is a breakthrough for the NYT to acknowledge the problem. They keep publishing MIT and Harvard economists assuring the world that technology creates as many, or more, jobs than it destroys. So, a big step for the Times, taken without fear because the author is not an economist and thus the Times doesn't have to admit the conflict. I think the author, Herbert Gans, laid out interesting history of how capitalism has eliminated workers in the past, i.e. disease and war. A good article but in the end disappointing. He talks about reducing hours in some distant future and even then, only with the state paying part of the wages to offset the reduced hours. Nothing there about redistributing income. Even Gans seems trapped in the belief that wages are determined by the market, which can't be interferred with. Gene On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:02 PM, c b wrote: > Times a few weeks ago > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/opinion/the-age-of-the-superfluous-worker.html?_r=2 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
