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haele

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10. Heck, same on the Government side.

Sun Apr 20, 2014, 12:05 PM

Apr 2014

They all call it "right-sizing" or getting rid of "redundancies" as if having a balanced work/life schedule, training, personnel support, back-up systems and QA/QC is an un-necessary expense in business. Because the most efficiently profitable business model is a plantation economy model, dontchaknow?

Fungible, disposable, just-in-time "resourcing" is the death of sustainability. And it seems that with very few exceptions, no one in a position of power or responsibility is willing to think on how to re-engineer society and business to handle the reality that technology means there are not going to be enough jobs to sustain employment levels of livable wages, no matter how social or liberal the economy a country has.

We are a race of tween-agers. And the bullies amongst us are perfectly happy to ensure that "civilization" is destroyed just so they can continue to be bullies.

Haele

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