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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Mort,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Check out the video presentation by Prof. Richard Wolf 
titled " When Capitalism Hits the Fan ".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>He does an excellent job of presenting the data ( and in a 
humorous&nbsp;entertaining manner at times ) that explains the phenomena we 
currently are in and delves into some of the&nbsp;issues of " who is 
a&nbsp;Worker ". That is, how the corporate media uses specific&nbsp;terms and 
language to divide us and to shape&nbsp;a phoney&nbsp;image of reality that they 
want us to believe.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David J.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David J.</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=brussel@illinois.edu href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">Morton K. 
  Brussel</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jencart13@yahoo.com 
  href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">Jenifer Cartwright</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A 
  title=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net 
  href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace Discuss</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 13, 2010 2:25 
  PM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Commentary 
  submitted to N-G</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>Even managers and executives of businesses and corporations 
  "work". I think what David was referring to is what has been known as the 
  "proletariat", those at the lowest ends of the wage scale, especially 
  industrial workers, those that expend human energy with their hands rather 
  more than with their minds or at computer terminals. Most in the categories 
  you mention would not consider themselves "workers" in the Marxist sense. 
  &nbsp;(That may be part of our social problem.) But my original point was that 
  it was somewhat simplistic to say that the increase in efficiency in the post 
  WWII years was to be credited mostly to the "workers" in the more narrow 
  sense. --mkb
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  <DIV>
  <DIV>On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:</DIV><BR 
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        <TD vAlign=top>Just a side issue related to the discussion:
          <DIV>Scientists, engineers, researchers, teachers, machinists, grad 
          students, academicians, assembly line folks, cooks, doctors, lawyers, 
          wait staff, innovators, artists, actors, maintenance staff, 
          cinematographers, pro-ball players, social workers, miners etc etc etc 
          all are <I>workers</I>, i e part of labor, rather than management. Yr 
          differentiation should be the hierarchy and systems under which they 
          work, and the protections and benefits they have as workers, not the 
          snobbery attached to their job title. Jmho.</DIV>
          <DIV>&nbsp;--Jenifer&nbsp;<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 12/13/10, David Green 
          <I>&lt;<A 
          href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>&gt;</I></B> 
          wrote:<BR>
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            David Green &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>&gt;<BR>Subject: 
            Re: [Peace-discuss] Commentary submitted to N-G<BR>To: "Morton K. 
            Brussel" &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">brussel@illinois.edu</A>&gt;<BR>Cc: 
            "Peace Discuss" &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A>&gt;<BR>Date: 
            Monday, December 13, 2010, 8:55 AM<BR><BR>
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            <DIV>I do understand the point of your remarks, Mort. It's a 
            question of how much more the scientists, engineers, etc. should 
            benefit from the profits from productivity increases generated by 
            their work, relative to workers. But it's not clear that the 
            innovators themselves even benefit that much in the context of the 
            marketing of these innovations, relative to the Bill Gates's of the 
            world, etc. It's not clear how much innovators should be entitled to 
            profit when their work is being funded by the public, and those 
            profits couldn't exist without a publicly-supported infrastructure 
            (including education) that operates on so many levels. It's not 
            clear that innovators profiting considerably more than workers is 
            socially just, or good for society in general. In the final 
            analysis, we have an innovative system within which financiers 
            profit the most. Do they deserve it? It seems to me that we should 
            err on the side of social justice and relative equality&nbsp;rather 
            than individual reward. If innovators aren't happy with a decent, 
            well-above average&nbsp;living rather than exorbitant rewards, then 
            let them withhold their genius from mankind and work on Rube 
            Goldberg machines. Mankind will be better off with a little less 
            innovation&nbsp;by people of this sort,&nbsp;and a lot more 
            equality.</DIV>
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            <DIV>DG<BR></DIV>
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            <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Morton K. 
            Brussel &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">brussel@illinois.edu</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
            style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
            style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace Discuss &lt;<A 
            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
            style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, December 12, 2010 
            11:10:11 PM<BR><B><SPAN 
            style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] 
            Commentary submitted to N-G<BR></FONT><BR>Yeah, and that system was 
            better (for the people!) than what succeeded it. But you are grossly 
            missing the point of my original remarks. --mkb 
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            <DIV>On Dec 12, 2010, at 7:26 PM, David Green wrote:</DIV><BR 
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              <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">You mean, the Bell Telephone that was 
              accorded by regulatory authorities to serve as a monopoly on 
              behalf of the government, and ostensibly the people?</DIV>
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              <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN 
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              Brussel &lt;<A 
              href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=brussel@illinois.edu" 
              target=_blank rel=nofollow 
              ymailto="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">brussel@illinois.edu</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
              style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN 
              class=yiv1854209885Apple-converted-space>&nbsp;</SPAN>David 
              Johnson &lt;<A href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=dlj725@hughes.net" 
              target=_blank rel=nofollow 
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              has detected a possible fraud attempt from "x-msg:" claiming to 
              be</B></FONT> dlj725@hughes.net</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
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              &lt;<A href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=davegreen84@yahoo.com" 
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              davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>&gt;<BR><B><SPAN 
              style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN 
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              December 12, 2010 6:34:08 PM<BR><B><SPAN 
              style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN 
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              [Peace-discuss] Commentary submitted to N-G<BR></FONT><BR>Davids, 
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              <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Thanks for your remarks, certainly true, 
              but the invention then had to be brought to the marketplace. 
              That's where the entrepreneurs, Bell Telephone, and others 
              (especially in the computing sector) saw its technological 
              evolution.&nbsp;</DIV>
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              <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--Mort</DIV>
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              <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">
              <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On Dec 12, 2010, at 4:39 PM, David 
              Johnson wrote:</DIV><BR 
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                face="Times New Roman" size=3>" Entrepreneurs had a fairly large 
                contribution here, i.e., the capitalist 
                system."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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                <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial 
                size=2>Mort,</FONT></DIV>
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                <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Three Physists 
                ( Bardeen, Shockley, and Brattain ) who WORKED for Bell 
                Laboratory ( ie. EMPLOYEES aka WORKERS ) invented the transistor 
                in 1947.</FONT></DIV>
                <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The capitalist 
                system had nothing to do with the invention except to enable 
                Bell Labs&nbsp;reap the vast majority of the 
                profits.</FONT></DIV>
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                <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2>David 
                J.</FONT></DIV>
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                  Message -----</DIV>
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                  style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228)"><B>From:</B><SPAN 
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                  title=brussel@illinois.edu 
                  href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=brussel@illinois.edu" 
                  target=_blank rel=nofollow 
                  ymailto="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">Morton K. 
                  Brussel</A></DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B><SPAN 
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                  title=davegreen84@yahoo.com 
                  href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=davegreen84@yahoo.com" 
                  target=_blank rel=nofollow 
                  ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">David Green</A></DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B><SPAN 
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                  title=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net 
                  href="x-msg://2083/mc/compose?to=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" 
                  target=_blank rel=nofollow 
                  ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace 
                  Discuss</A></DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B><SPAN 
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                  December 12, 2010 4:02 PM</DIV>
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                  style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B><SPAN 
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                  [Peace-discuss] Commentary submitted to N-G</DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>Valuable observations and 
                  facts. I would only quibble with one argument: The gain in 
                  productivity (during the years quoted) was probably less due 
                  to the work and sweat &nbsp;of the nonprofessional "workers" 
                  than to the<SPAN 
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                  of the transistor and its subsequent technology. The 
                  question/argument than might become who should get the 
                  benefits from the increased productivity.&nbsp; 
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                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Of course, without the workers, 
                  professional and other, the gains in productivity would not 
                  have been realizable…. Take it from there…</DIV>
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                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--mkb</DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">
                  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On Dec 12, 2010, at 1:07 PM, David 
                  Green wrote:</DIV><BR 
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                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri><B>Misguided 
                    critics of public schools ignore fundamental economic 
                    realities</B></FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>David 
                    Green</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>It is 
                    conventional wisdom that good schools are essential to a 
                    healthy economy. It is true that schools are responsible for 
                    the basic literacy, skills, and educability of those 
                    entering the workforce. It does not follow, however, that 
                    schools are to blame for the dismal economic outlook for 
                    many Americans.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Misguided 
                    perspectives on the relationship between economy and 
                    education lead critics to focus on daily activities and 
                    outcomes of teachers, parents, and students. These critics 
                    avoid the fundamental nature of growing economic inequality 
                    and its evolution over the past three decades. Their 
                    criticism is not only profoundly misguided, but part of the 
                    problem. They are in denial regarding the class-stratified 
                    nature of an American economy that has victimized working 
                    people and their children in a systematic and structural 
                    manner.</FONT></P>
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                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>The facts 
                    are clear, and their implications easily discerned. These 
                    facts address the long-term relationship between worker 
                    productivity and wages; the transition from a manufacturing 
                    to a service economy; and the sources of recessions and high 
                    rates of unemployment. Given the basic existence of 
                    universal and functional public schooling, none of these 
                    trends has been determined by the relative merits of 
                    schools, teachers, students, or parents, whatever their 
                    specific achievements. These trends have been completely 
                    determined by the corporate, financial, political, and 
                    ideological powers that be.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>The Pew 
                    Charitable Trusts’<SPAN>&nbsp;<SPAN 
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                    Mobility Project,” available online, clarifies the evolving 
                    relationship between productivity and wages. Since 1945, the 
                    American worker has increased productivity by at least 2% 
                    per year, consistently throughout. This means that 
                    efficiency—output per person-hour in the production and 
                    provision of goods and services—has doubled twice during 
                    this 65-year period, both before and after the advent of 
                    computers and a high-tech-based economy.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>This 
                    historical and structural increase in productivity—and hence 
                    both national and per capita wealth—has depended on 
                    innovation, skill, and effort by scientists, technicians, 
                    managers, business owners, and workers. About no sector of 
                    the workforce can it be said that its employees, from “top” 
                    to “bottom,” have not significantly contributed to these 
                    increases by the quality of their minds or the sweat of 
                    their brows. Similarly, it is inconceivable that the quality 
                    of our schools has been an impediment rather than an asset 
                    to these increases, ongoing, which are typical for all 
                    countries in the industrialized world.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>From 1945 to 
                    the mid-1970s, the median (adjusted for inflation) wage for 
                    the American worker increased commensurate with 
                    productivity—that is, doubling during that period. Between 
                    1974 and 2004, while productivity increased by 80%, the 
                    median wage increased by 20%. From 2000 to 2005, 
                    productivity increased by 15%, while the median wage fell 
                    2%; obviously that trend continues to this day, and 
                    worsens.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>All of these 
                    facts clearly indicate that while the country gets richer, 
                    the median, “middle class” worker becomes stagnant or gets 
                    poorer; all of the increases in wealth that are generated by 
                    the labor of all workers accrue to the benefit of the upper 
                    quintile of the population; the largest share going to the 
                    upper 1%. Again, none of this, in any critic’s wildest 
                    imagination, can be attributed to the failures of schools to 
                    educate our children, whatever the debatable extent of such 
                    alleged failures.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>This 
                    well-documented appropriation of wealth has nothing 
                    fundamentally to do with computer technology per se, but 
                    with policies promoted by elites during the transition from 
                    a manufacturing to a service economy. These policies 
                    determined that private-sector unions would be effectively 
                    destroyed, and that non-“professional” workers (that is, 
                    those not protected by their credentials from foreign 
                    competition) would be placed into competition with low-wage 
                    foreign (and immigrant) workers. These efforts, most 
                    identified with the Reagan era but supported by all 
                    administrations since Carter, were well under way before the 
                    digital transformation, although they have subsequently been 
                    abetted by this phenomenon.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>While 
                    American workers have adapted to technological change, their 
                    organizational and political capacities to materially 
                    benefit from their labor have not adapted to the onslaught 
                    of neoliberal, “free market” (referred to locally as 
                    “capitalism and limited government”) ideology and practice 
                    among those who rule our country for their own 
                    benefit—especially those in financial, speculative sectors. 
                    This leaves workers vulnerable not only to the chronic 
                    appropriation of their wealth, but to the acute misery 
                    caused by speculative bubbles generated by financiers that 
                    result in the massive disappearance of housing wealth, 
                    increased unemployment, Wall Street bailouts and profits, 
                    huge federal deficits, and cynical attacks on the social 
                    safety net.</FONT></P>
                    <P class=yiv1854209885MsoNormal 
                    style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri>In this 
                    light, it is perverse for public school critics to focus on 
                    the “accountability” of teachers and the “personal 
                    responsibility” of students. Many parents and children are 
                    rightly aware of the dire nature of their economic 
                    circumstances and future prospects—whatever their efforts 
                    and skills—in an economy with high unemployment and the most 
                    extreme inequality among the developed nations. In relation 
                    to the poorest among us, such criticism borders on cruelty 
                    on the part of the comfortable.</FONT></P>
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