Luddism

[Kelley Walker]

anyone know anything about this report, these authors?  smells fishy to me 
on first glance. If someone could ask at Pen-l and forward requests, I'd 
appreciate it.  Nothing terribly important, just having fun with another 
lefty hater... :)

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BULLSHIT

                              1870   1973   1990
Age Starting Work              13    18.5    19.1
Life Expectancy                43.5  70.6    75.0
Retirement                            6.6    11.4
Years on Job                   30.5  45.5    45.5
Annual hours on job          3,069  1,743   1,562
Annual hours work at home    1,825  1,391   1,278
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1993 Annual Report: These are
the Good Old Days, pp. 4, 7-8.

The Average American has three times more leisure hours over their
lifetime than his ancestors in the late 19th century did.  Just over the
last 20 years the average American gained 40,000 added lifetime hours of
leisure.

It's getting better all the time, 100 greatest trends of the last 100
years.  Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon pg 106