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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BGR who wrote (69984)	11/3/1999 10:53:00 AM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

My point is, that one can grow technology without the rewards going to the stockholders, if they are used to cash in the start-ups, as is happening in the internet space. As example where productivity is visible is ordering computer parts over the web. You can expect delivery in at most 5 days sometimes less, and be rightfully upset if it doesn't happen. OTOH you might agree that GE is enlightened, well I have a recent example where in order to return a part their supply system worked good but the return path failed on three attempts, finally took a direct phone call to the responsible couriers to get the task accomplished. There are embedded special interests which will prevent ultra-efficiency, best exemplified by the US health care/ insurance dancing that 2/3 of your money spent goes to the bureaucracy involved. Any call for a simple and universal system is defeated with demagoguery ( I was impressed with my correct spelling of "bureaucracy" but I think this one doesn't pass muister) mostly as a result, I think, of the influence purchased by health insurers. As exhibit two, I show you the new SI where I can type all I want in reply but then I have to go over to old SI for it to work.