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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (15939)	1/20/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 108807

<Farmers and steelworkers can't telecommute. Maybe this is very curmudgeonly of me, but I see any job that can be done over a modem as not necessary for survival. Such jobs, while they undeniably create all sortsa wealth, are the stuff which builds culture on top of subsistence.> Yes, you're right. This is very scary in terms of the two-tier society we are building. The telecommuters will be rich, insulated behind security gates, but will happen to all the 'average' people in the population?" When I go to a ball game, or some civic event like the fireworks on the fourth of July, I am surrounded by masses of all classes of humanity, people I don't see on an everyday basis, and this question always pops into my mind and makes me very uncomfortable, because I don't know what the answer is.

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