Ihsan Dogan schrieb: > > > Instead of educating politicians it would make more sense, if the IT > people would be more involved in politics. The IT industry is doing more > for the GDI (BIP) than the farmers, but unfortunately we are not organized. > >
We also have no means to deliver kilo-gallons of slurry to the front-door of the parliament ;-) Also, farmers have much more means to apply pressure to the public - it's not easy to replace their goods & services on short-notice and they are mostly self-employed. Our work has been commoditized to the point where we are replaceable almost immediately - and most of us are employees. Those who are not are replaceable even easier.... And all the heavy-lifting of the infrastructure is done by big corporations that never go on strike or deny service to their customers (which is the usual way pressure groups like garbage-men and farmers get their agenda through). A part of reality is also, of course, that most of what we do is not really essential - superfluous luxury so to speak. People need food, water, shelter (and garbage-collection). People can survive without email (though we work hard to convince them otherwise) ;-) Rainer _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
