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To: MSI who wrote (11098)	11/13/2001 11:34:57 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

How could one "create" jobs when productivity is less manpower for a given output? I think the way out is to use machinery and automation where they are the best solution for the job and people where people is the best solution for the job. If we look to the application of machinery and automation processes, it was applied where the jobs were dangerous, caused professional diseases or avoid the drudgery of the work. The pauper -given the technological level of their societies- can be put to work productively if to their daily work and its processes, was applied machinery. Just watch how they build a three-story building in India to know what I mean. I can walk 200m away from this computer and come back with photos illustrating that: The Forum building just beside my apt. building here is being built with concrete made in situ -a technique that is not being used in Europe any longer. They are laying optical fiber cable with hands and shovels. They are extending the sewage system the same way. All with hands and basic tools. If I go now to the bank -I hardly enter one these days- the level of automation of the banking system is superb. The economy can't work without this level of automation. But there is a huge segment where if machinery is introduce will benefit the economy and the pauper himself.. But I prefer an hotel that has a coffee shop open 24 hours a day as such was the case of the hotels in Indonesia. I would prefer to arrive in a foreign airport and have trolleys available -because the airport have people gathering in the places I would need. (Try to drop off a taxi in Toronto with three suitcases to discover what I mean. Paul Hawken was right ("The Next Economy" perhaps?: If those Palestine were part of the formal economy and had jobs, they would firing SMS messages with their GSM phones to girls rather than firing stones into Israeli troops. The main problem is the leadership of the places where this mass of paupers live. Those are sovereign states most of them with less than a 100 years of independent existence. Which means they are still nationalists at heart even though, they have not progressed much. Those countries -judging by their economic track record- didn't perform very well. They can't change by themselves. I advocate they abdicating of part of their sovereignty in exchange for better leadership. The question bugs me since I was born a pauper myself.