Doug Henwood wrote:
> Figures. So many of you cybertypes can be so casual about displacement;
you can bounce from job to job, place to place, and survive. Not everyone is
so blessed - those forces you dismiss as the "steel lobby" and "textile
lobby"
include lots of displaced, downsized, and disposed of workers along with the nationalist union tops and pampered managers.
I respond with a lame telnet account:
Yes, until you get to be about 40 and the industry considers you to be so much dead meat.
You have a still immature sector where start ups are still common, unlike the mature sectors, such as steel, coal, textiles, but also media. Little by little, the AOLs and the Microsofts invade this still fertile turf. As that happens, the brave libertarianism common to that sector will dissipate.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu