Hi David,
DMB:
Roger, If just compensation and a living wage can so easily upset our
economic system, then perhaps that needs to be upset. The fact that such
basic principles can not be accomodated tells us something alarming about
that system. Actually, I think most of the detailed issues you raise are
sensible enough, but they supposed to be worked out by the people and the
courts.
Rog,
And I think your goal for live-able standards from an honest day's work are
noble and of quality. I am not willing to lower quality or destroy the
economy in blind pursuit of an ideal though. This is NOT the intellectual
answer. The answer is to try to find a way to get liveable wages while
preserving the economy. This only comes though from debate, experimentation,
trial and error, hard work, refinement, and so on. That is how we progress,
not by throwing up our hands and sacrificing our future over a dream.
Again, I offer that the intellectual path is one of inquiry and
experimentation and never ending pursuit of quality. It is not sacrificing
reality for idealism.
We have made a lot of progress in world wide in living standards in the past
100 years. Let's not give up now.
Rog
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