look flamebait, :) work will be like play and we'll be efficient and highly productive, especially because automation and a more efficient distribution of goods will mean that we won't actually have to work all that much, PLUS we'll all take turns doing different kinds of jobs and won't get bored with what we do or who we're working with AND we'll get to periodic sabbaticals and everyone will be happy little clams and we'll hunt in the morning and fish at night and talk philosophy while we play strip poker and polish our carrots...errr i mean gunz.
sorry i misunderstood what you'd said, but as i expl'd to carrol offlist, i was interpreting it terms of the critique of productivity in the literature on women and work. i wasn't thinking in the way my fave petty bourg usually does! i think of the issue you raise, often, because i'm a workaholic, and there are always slackers around that drive me insane. but what is that about anyway? dump them if they're a waste since everyone else can do most of the work. so then we get to unemploy them? this will help? if it's the case that there is deadwood, and firms are wasting 3 million, then spread that capital baby and enter utopia! :)
kelley
"Poor Jordan. Jordan is a petty bourgeois muppet is he not! Let Jordan demonstrate how he plans to formulate productivity and win a Nobel Prize. Jordan will not because he CAN not. Perhaps Jordan can explain how he can be his own muppet! Jordan probably believes that it is all "mere" discourse. As usual, the members of this petty bourgeois listserv type nothing but drivel. Pathetic, really. But then again, this list serv IS pathetic. Jordan dismissed. Run along, Jordan. The rest deleted. "
--Fred Harris