From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 19:22:04 +0800
To: stevenw@best.com (Steven Weller)
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal: Fattening up the Proles
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At 06:46 PM 1/17/96 -0800, Steven Weller wrote:

>See also _The End of Work_ by Rifkin. It chronicles changing work patterns
>from agriculture through mass manufacturing and the service age on to an
>uncertain future. Lots of interesting numbers and "look what is already
>happening" statements. It also shows that the changes are inexorable, just
>as the decline in agriculture based on human and animal labor was.

Except when I had Rifkin on the phone on a National Commie Radio talk show
he dishonestly refused to admit the fact that -- so far -- employment in the
US (total and percentage workforce participation) is higher than it's ever been.

A lot of that is the commie belief that a job is something someone else
gives you rather than something that you do.  It's a bit hard to be without
work if you assign it to yourself.  And if wants are unlimited then one of
the "goods" for which wants are unlimited is labor.

DCF

"A job he calls it!  Reading the legal notices in the Times searching for
unclaimed bequests in his name." -- The New Yorker