[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Tue Oct 25 03:45:25 PDT 2011


ha! I can safely say that being unemployed for a year was the best time of my life. Places to go, things to do, a garden to grow. it was fanfuckingtastic!

Joeseph Catron:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:45 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I would be interested in knowing how effectively the literature
> adjusts for
> non-financial consequences of unemployment in our society - loss of
> prestige, etc. Perhaps it does so quite well, in which case one of you
> can
> tell me something I don't know.
>
> For example, a study comparing Hamas employees in Gaza (who are
> respected in
> their social circles, receive salaries and benefits, and work) with PA
> employees (who are similarly respected in their mileau, draw
> comparable
> salaries and benefits, but don't work) would be quite convincing if it
> arrived at the conclusions you describe here. My very unscientific,
> anecdotal observations haven't borne them out so far.
>
> Obviously "unemployment" is an intricate sociocultural phenomenon with
> far
> more connotations than simply not receiving wages for work. (I've
> recently
> been assured, by one in a position to know, that chicks don't dig
> unemployed
> rich guys, either!) But it does not logically follow that everything
> else
> results inevitably from not receiving wages for work, although that
> could be
> the case.
>
> --
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> mægen
> lytlað."
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