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<TD class=user-info><A href="http://us-mg4.mail.yahoo.com/greenhousenyt?p=s"><FONT color=#0066cc><STRONG class=fullname>Steven Greenhouse</STRONG> <SPAN class=username><SPAN>@</SPAN>greenhousenyt </SPAN></FONT></A></TD>
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<DIV class=dir-ltr dir=ltr>As productivity & corporate profits climb to record, wages stagnate, fall to lowest share of GDP ever. My story. <A class="twitter_external_link dir-ltr" dir=ltr href="http://t.co/DbDJgGX3" target=_blank rel=nofollow data-url="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?smid=tw-share"><FONT color=#0066cc>nytimes.com/2013/01/13</FONT></A></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV>
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<DIV>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown@gmail.com><BR>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l@waste.org><BR>Cc: <BR>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:45 AM<BR>Subject: Re: NP - The Myth of a Jobless Recovery<BR><BR>Two things to check out here:<BR><BR>from Money … And its role in a just society<BR><BR>By Michael Dirda<BR><BR>No doubt such thinking will be dubbed, or denounced, as socialistic or<BR>un-American. It’s certainly completely Utopian. But I am a child of<BR>both the working class and the 1960s. I don’t like gross monetary<BR>inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong<BR>professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the<BR>hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve<BR>their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.<BR><BR>Of course, no one ever listens to me. But after the deplorable<BR>behavior of our legislative officials this
past fall in dealing with<BR>the fiscal crisis, after the childish, know-nothing recalcitrance of<BR>the Tea Party, after the almost weekly corruption scandals among our<BR>moguls and financial “advisors,†after the outrageous golden<BR>parachutes allocated to inept executives, and, most of all, after the<BR>general and ongoing contempt demonstrated by the haves for the have<BR>nots, it’s enough to make even a mild-mannered book reviewer depressed<BR>and ashamed for his country.<BR><BR><BR><A href="http://theamericanscholar.org/money/" target=_blank>http://theamericanscholar.org/money/</A><BR><BR>This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA,<BR>illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home<BR>and in the workplace.<BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc</A><BR><BR><BR>On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Michael Bailey<BR><<A
href="mailto:michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com">michael.lee.bailey@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> Depends on what is being produced. If it's shirts and toys, yes. If<BR>>> it's innovative technologies and engineering or applied education, no.<BR>>><BR>>> In fact, productivity declines when wage incentives are introduced in<BR>>> the higher end. Imagine that! Seems odd, but it is true.<BR>>><BR>>> Sure, give a piece worker another penny to produce more and she will,<BR>>> but not a softwear maker.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Maslowe's pyramid? how high up is that, where that happens? don't<BR>> even the software companies routinely foster sweatshop-like conditions<BR>> - at least in terms of hours worked - using cash inducements?<BR>><BR>> a-and in fact your 1% probably slaves away at reading those<BR>> prospectuses &c and having long
boring meetings which aren't that much<BR>> fun and swatting away bad PR that they know in their heart is pretty<BR>> true which can't be that much fun either --- they're stuck on the<BR>> lower levels of the self-realization pyramid themselves it seems.<BR>><BR>> ah well, not my lookout really except insofar as it relates to Pynchon<BR>> -- I'm thinking of Benny Profane's graffito, "screw all you rich<BR>> bastards" or words to that effect, and of the, well, anhedonia<BR>> shimmering around all the Vibes...<BR>> to the point where I, at least, felt a bit sorry for even old SV<BR>><BR>> "take a sad song, and make it better"<BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>