At 09:04 PM 9/15/96 -0400, Phill <hallam@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
Work for the competition, or start your own company.
Easy enough for you or me who can charge the minimum wage rate for an hour for a period more like a minute.
In this part of California, most yard work is done by small companies run by guys named Jose or Pablo, who can charge maybe 2-3x minimum at most before the competition undercuts them. And they have to worry about blacklists also - "business licenses" and "immigration papers".
... Being opposed to government slavery isn't enough. Coorporate slavery is just as bad. Unless people are enfranchised ecconmically as well as politically the political liberties don't matter much.
It's not corporate slavery when you don't have to work for them.
I am on an SPL that is run by an organisation called the "Ecconomic League". It is an organisation run by the UK Conservative party which keeps lists of "unsafe" employees. Of course the list is
(Just because I don't believe in the concept of "corporate slavery" doesn't mean I don't think corporations can be offensive. This sucks...) Out of curiousity, I thought the UK had Data Privacy Laws or some sort of Database Cops - does that not apply to applications like this? # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto