The ideas by Marx and Engel were built on the problems in an changing world. The beginning of the industrialism. Yes, the ideas had perhaps some political overtones we have a hard time to accept and we know that particularly in Sovjet it showed its limitations. Reality is of course that old Russia, with a tradition of feudalism at its worst. was probably the most unsuitable place to try this experiment with Marxism. Today we are approaching another major change as our capacity to produce food and other merchandise is going to a situation that it will only require a fraction of the labor required so far. Just like the farm workers, who probably thought it much better to plow than to stand by a lace all day, had to change we need to change. I have an idea about making the work force more independent and very flexible. I have many reasons. Here is a few. 1. There is no need for big very structured organizations. They actually would lose in a bidding to a group of people loosely established to solve a certain issue. 2. Our communication situation does not require us to be in the same conference room or office. 3. The western world has a cost structure that means we cannot compete with emerging economies when it comes to simple labor incentive jobs. Projects we can compete for are sophisticated jobs that require our infrastructure, ingenuity and passion to come to fruition. I know that emerging countries also has good school and you might think they would be hard to beat. That will be true in the longer perspective but remember it took the great grand children of the farm worker a hundred years before they went to college in general. It will take emerging economies time to change in to a new model. They will down the line but at that time we will have another paradigm shift.
Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com [email protected] +1 916 436 1899 202 Granite Park Court, Lincoln CA 95648 “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:58 AM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > America is running out of jobs. It's time for a universal basic income. > > > http://theweek.com/article/index/267720/america-is-running-out-of-jobs-its-time-for-a-universal-basic-income > > quotes > > << The idea that work is a bedrock of society, that absolutely everyone > who is not too old, too young, or disabled must have a job, was not handed > down on tablets from Mount Sinai. It is the result of a historical > development, one which may not continue forever. On the contrary, based on > current trends, it is already breaking down. > > The history of nearly universal labor participation is only about a > century and a half old. Back in the early days of capitalism, demand for > labor was so strong that all the ancient arrangements of society and family > were shredded to accommodate it. Marx's Capital famously described how > women and very young children were press-ganged into the textile mills and > coal mines, how the nighttime was colonized for additional shifts, and how > capitalists fought to extend the working day to the very limits of human > endurance (and often beyond). > > The resulting misery, abuse, and wretchedness were so staggering, and the > resulting class conflicts so intense, that various hard-won reforms were > instituted: the eight-hour day, the weekend, the abolition of child labor, > and so forth. > > But this process of drawing more people into the labor force peaked in the > late 1990s, when women finally finished joining the labor force (after > having been forced out to make room for returning veterans after World War > II). The valorization of work as the source of all that is good in life is > to a great degree the result of the need to legitimate capital's voracious > demand for labor. > > >> > > << As someone with a nice, stimulating job, I agree that work can help > people flourish. But in an economy that is flatly failing to produce enough > jobs to satisfy the need, a universal basic income will start to seem more > plausible — even necessary.>> >
