[lbo-talk] service coops (was Servant culture)

[Liza Featherstone]

Well, as for "value add" I have no idea, since I've never hired either a
cleaning service or an individual cleaner. I just clean badly or not at all.
You don't really explain what you mean, but I assume that you mean a  "value
add" to the consumer, in convenience or better quality work or whatever, and
I wasn't actually talking about that - I was talking about how you, either
as a cleaner or an employer, might find an arrangement more advantageous to
the WORKER. and a lot of us were talking about the political contradictions
therein. This being the LEFT business observer mail-list and all.

and as for airline pilots and flight attendants, isn't that kind of a silly
response? sure, of course you WANT extend that to your flight attendant and
you want to make a world in which you can do that... but I'm afraid I was
being boring and talking about how choices people make right now.

Liza  


> From: "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:27:09 -0700
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] service coops (was Servant culture)
> 
>> From: "Liza Featherstone" <lfeather32 at erols.com>
>> 
>> If you were going to spend the money to have someone
>> clean your house, wouldn't you want to make sure that
>> person, rather than a corporation, got as much of your
>> money as you could afford --with all due qualifications
>> on the word "afford" -- to pay them?
> 
> Why not extend that to your airline pilot and flight attendant?
> 
> There's nothing stopping people who are good at a job and who want to
> own/operate a business from doing so.
> 
> I guess you're saying there's no "value add" to a cleaning service over
> and above what the cleaning person does in your house.  I disagree.
> 
> /jordan
> 
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