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

To: Les H who wrote (77734)	3/13/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Les, What does the rate of productivity-led change have to do with the nature of change itself!? I was just debunking your claim that productivity growth must be accompanied by high unemployment. I am very familiar with this argument, as it is a standard claim of the communist parties of the country that I grew up in - ask Mohan if you do not believe me. Thankfully the electorate does not buy that argument any more. In any case, productivity growth of 5% is not a rapid change by any scale. But if you want to look for some rapid change, look at the industrial revolution, where craftsmen were routed by mass production using machines in a span of a couple of decades, leading to the Luddite movement and providing the backdrop for Marx' thesis. -BGR.