nytimes.com — IT?S Labor Day weekend, so let?s talk about labor. Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in work like governing, manufacturing, health care providing, retailing and researching. This gigantic army of laborers, argues Robert B. Reich, has morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than Citizens.
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kindpastorSep 3, 2007
Who's in charge of deciding what counts as "ethical" again?
leomarthSep 3, 2007
It came from wanting to pamper our children and give them a better life. We did it "for the children".
kufu91Sep 3, 2007
f**k yeah, ants!
gambit89Sep 3, 2007
"It" was designed in such a "way" that children be "well educated" through public schools, and, as one of the intended consequences of this, to become good consumers."But how can consumers be taught through public schools? Isn't this non-sequitur?" What is meant by "it", "way", and "well educated"? John Taylor Gatto briefly explains... <a class="user" href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm">http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm</a>
gambit89Sep 3, 2007
We always have been though of as human resources beginning shortly after 1900.
unrefinedSep 4, 2007
They'd be out of jobs too. In my mind it's a Yin-Yang thing. Know what I'm getting at?
kestermatsumotoSep 4, 2007
I wonder if the aboriginal peoples of your great free nation hold the same opinion?