Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[kelley]

At 03:53 PM 1/20/02 -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
>ravi wrote:
> >
> > given the pro-industrial pro-modern-world position of most of the posts
> > on this thread (a kind of russellian pooh-pooh'ing of primitivism?) i am
> > curious about what folks think about bodley's work on tribal people (for
> > eg his interesting book: victims of progress) who, if he is to be
> > believed, lived a life without these factories and fancy medical
> > devices, that seem to be inalienable, in a sustainable manner.
>
>Let me add that one of the most important medical advances in the 20th
>century was simply better sanitation.

plumbers. welders. street sweepers. toilet factories. waste and sewage 
workers. janitors. window washers. cement and asphalt workers. people who 
work in factors that produce cleaning supplies, disinfectants, and package 
them. people who make mops, brooms, window wipers, vehicles that sweep the 
streets. people who run the weaving mills to make the cloth used to clean 
or the factories that work wood pulp or recycled paper into paper towels. 
people who make cellulose sponges or people to work the boats that retrieve 
sponges from the ocean.