Fwd: eToys dies slow, lingering, satisfying corporate death

[kelley]

At 10:44 AM 1/5/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Chuck0 wrote:
>
>>U.K. website shut down, 60% of staff laid off! This is a major victory
>>for anti-corporate activists.
>>
>>Kill all the dot-coms. Death to e-commerce.
>
>Um, I'm not sure I get this. Yeah there was a lot of stupid shit about the 
>dot.coms, and there's a lot that vulgar and destructive about capitalist 
>commerce, but is electronic commerce itself intrinsically evil? I could 
>imagine it playing a role in my democratically planned socialist utopia.
>
>And since when do we cheer mass layoffs?
>
>Doug

because work is bad, therefore not working is good.

duh!  :)

kelley