Ray:
At 15:36 17/01/1996 -0500, you wrote:
>>Does this ring any bells ??
>
>It certainly does, from the demise of the 1,600 opera houses in Iowa--to
>health care--to the elderly--to education-- to the new "for-profit Star
>System"--to the demise of the "not-for-profit" public service area in the
>new flat tax proposals from both parties in Congress--to the coming
>integration of several million out of work angry workers into a private
>sector that doesn't have room for the workers they have. Sounds like a
>recipe for:
>
>"connectivity rapidly disentegrating, leaving a dispersed
>'archipelago' of relatively small sub-communities."
First, the rationale for 1600 opera houses in Iowa bears some elaboration.
Was its rise akin to, say, the existence of operatic houses throughout the
Amazonian rubber plantation basin?
As to the matter of disenfranchised employees -- to include the
"networking and support" group provided by their peers -- there are
numerous examples of professional, regional and social groups beginning to
assume the role of professional training and mentoring that the employee
assumed would be provided by his or her employer.
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