Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Chuck0 chuck at tao.ca
Sun Jan 20 18:18:40 PST 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Chuck0 wrote:
>
> >Let me add that one of the most important medical advances in the 20th
> >century was simply better sanitation.
>
> Made possible by public health specialists, civil engineers, and
> trash collectors. If they'd refused to work, would we be surrounded
> by garbage?

Sanitation can be accomplished by people in a community who rotate these roles. I think you've also lumped several skill levels together. As much as I have problems with Albert and Hahnel, I think they do a good job of explaining why we need to get rid of experts and specialization. Our lives become more meaningful when we aren't forced into narrow specializations for our lives. I'm experiencing that painfully right now, since I'm excluded from web jobs simply because I don't know this or that computer language.

<< Chuck0 >>

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