Til you Econ boys manufacture a 'Part-Time' category

Post #150,152 by Ashton 4/5/04 5:45:17 PM Reply	Til you Econ boys manufacture a 'Part-Time' category None of your 'employment' numbers will mean shit - especially: all those multi-digit ones with false-precision beyond about two decimal places, as suggest that someone really Measured something. BS by-the-numbers. And until 'health care' and 'retirement' [Hah!] become separated from the machinations of the revolving-door, week-by-week Neo-"workplace" -- even two digit precision will remain laughable; mere spin-fodder as always. Faked Numbers - how the 2% got the 50%. Maybe when we teach this with examples, in grammar school.. if we do it in time, there may be less blood. (Sorry, undertakers)
Post #150,154 by mmoffitt 4/5/04 5:48:51 PM Reply	Dunno how, but I do know why. ...how the 2% got the 50% So they can "trickle" upon us, of course. (See, I did pay attention in the two Econ classes I had as an undergrad ;-) bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
Post #150,198 by bepatient 4/5/04 10:41:16 PM Reply	right. so why bother tracking it. Its all bullshit anyway. nothing matters until its done the >right< way...right? If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #150,211 by Ashton 4/6/04 3:06:47 AM Reply	Lots of things matter. Imagining that numbers can both characterize and quantify them all - in that direction lies madness. Ours - and reinforced by every MBA course as sells this model. Hearsay suggests - that's most of them.

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