>>"According to the libertarian litany, if an industry or an institution is
>>making a profit, it is satisfying "wants" whose origins and content are
>>deliberately disregarded. But what we want, what we are capable of wanting
>>is relative to the forms of social organization. People "want" fast food
>>because they have to hurry back to work, because processed supermarket food
>>doesn't taste much better anyway, because the nuclear family (for the
>>dwindling minority who have even that to go home to) is too small and too
>>stressed to sustain much festivity in cooking and eating...
>
>I don't know about you, but I just don't feel like cooking tonight.
>And I can have a lot more festivity in cooking and eating by
>stopping at Uncle Yu's on the way home...
Ah, yes, immigrant labor provides a market-based replacement for the formerly unpaid household labor of women. Festivity can take so many forms!
Doug