[lbo-talk] new frontiers in employee ownership

[Jordan Hayes]

> This is just a single instance of public-private partnership
> which is the foundation of neoliberalism.  It is the main
> vehicle for the socialization of costs and privatization of
> publicly subsidized profits.

I always thought it was really just the main mechanism for avoiding 
pension costs, because even private companies love this idea.  Why not 
have your in-house IT departement build the city-wide payroll system? 
Because when they are done, they will loaf around for 15 more years and 
then collect a pension while they go off to their second career.

Why does Microsoft have so many contractors?  Because they have to treat 
their real employees much better than some contractor will treat his.

/jordan