would be formidable AND: any 'unbiased' conclusions would certainly die in the face of coercion for individual and entrenched profits. Surely there could be no honest 'debate'! (Not in US, anyway)

Still, however the above calculations went: a 'prosperity formula' based upon ever-increasing consumption - has a name, and the end-reult is not even suspenseful for any exponential equation in which the exponent is +.

Oh well. Rearranging deck chairs keeps people off the streets. We are all temps now.


Ashton

I meant in the connotation of bizness, the successor to business (where there had always been a rotating crew of "outsourced people" for certain jobs; in the past - these were a small minority of 'jobs', though):

The obvious trend of international Corporate planning - is for virtually all liabilities (a list to which most personnel have recently been formally added) to be 'outsourced'. Makes for flexibility in dumping an entire 'Company' / or merging with another expendable one, reducing all bonds to junkbonds, effectively: but leaving the Exec. parachutes both larger and more easily deployable.

Since Corporations have become the de-facto substitute for largely-neglected local governance (in too many places - but especially in the US) - I'd suggest that the plans of such asocial entities are the largest force determining the near-future living conditions of those 'interchangeable worker drones':

whose cubicles already need only a giant Water [Cola? = stimulant] Bottle.. to perfectly emulate a hamster cage. Surely these will become smaller; perhaps even fork-lift 'stackable' .. next (?) as cel-fones expand in capability to allow 'Corp-realted activity to continue.. til just before dropping off to sleep. (People + pharm-chem supplements shall soon become inured to 5-hour "sleep outages from work" - we are sooo adaptable..)

Or do you see some other trend in MBA-think which I have missed?



Ashton