At 06:46 PM 1/17/96 -0800, Steven Weller wrote:

See also _The End of Work_ by Rifkin. It chronicles changing work patterns from agriculture through mass manufacturing and the service age on to an uncertain future. Lots of interesting numbers and "look what is already happening" statements. It also shows that the changes are inexorable, just as the decline in agriculture based on human and animal labor was.

Except when I had Rifkin on the phone on a National Commie Radio talk show he dishonestly refused to admit the fact that -- so far -- employment in the US (total and percentage workforce participation) is higher than it's ever been. A lot of that is the commie belief that a job is something someone else gives you rather than something that you do. It's a bit hard to be without work if you assign it to yourself. And if wants are unlimited then one of the "goods" for which wants are unlimited is labor. DCF "A job he calls it! Reading the legal notices in the Times searching for unclaimed bequests in his name." -- The New Yorker