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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, September 7, 2010 2:10:11 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"<BR></FONT><BR>> ...what we have here is a youthful, healthy, highly-skilled, and<BR>> economically desperate pool of surplus labor. This is to the benefit of<BR>> corporations, educational institutions, NGOs, the low-paid service sector,<BR>> the military, and the prison-industrial complex. Of course, in spite of the<BR>> global spirit of desperate competition, winners and losers remain<BR>> predictable in aggregate on the basis of their economic backgrounds, albeit<BR>> with notable exceptions that reinforce the rule. All of this constitutes
the<BR>> so-called “meritocracy” in the neoliberal era.<BR><BR>Interesting paragraph, David. And well written.<BR><BR>The idea of surplus labor is worth looking closer.<BR>Because I think there is plenty of work to be done.<BR>* Rebuild New Orleans<BR>* put out fires in Colorado<BR>* put up some windmills<BR>* harvesting fields in Illinois [my cousin is in need of some farm help]<BR><BR>Isn't there a way to rearrange workers to take up the work that needs<BR>to be done.<BR>Oh, wait, the CCC and WPA ...<BR><BR>-karen medina<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Peace-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target=_blank>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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