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To: elmatador who wrote (33446)	5/10/2003 5:03:03 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Des-killing carmaker was good for guys like me. I have no mechanical skills. As one who has mechanical skills, I can't relate..... One night in 1973 I was driving home in the dark in the rain in soggy Oregon and my pick up up and died. It was 2 in the morning, and I was alone. Unlike the fellow who recently hacked off his arm after a romp in the tulies that trapped him behind a rock, I was caught in a hard place that I could master. I sorted out that my plight was caused by a failed plastic component within the distributor and I improvised a cedar shingle kludge that brought spark back to my cylinders. Wasn't dramatic, in the telling, but it certainly was a more successful improvisastion than whacking off an arm, the media's latest sensation, or giving up on craftsmanship as so many modern men have as they've lost the knack of improvisation and have assumed a life of quiet desperation, waiting for the next alienating and dehumanizing advance in what we so ironically label as progress...........

To: elmatador who wrote (33446)	5/10/2003 1:53:19 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

What you are talking about is the knowledge society. one of the three problems (or facts, depends on one´s attitude) in germany. The first one is aging population. There´s hopeful signs, that the upcoming legislature going through Bundestag will allow simpler and more effective immigration. Then there´s a specific German fact of reunification. Imagine US added Mexico in 1990. The hundreds of billions of euro is something that did not disappear. It just was not there for other purposes. Now the knowledge society - the idea or the goal of full employment is a thing of the past. Aas lord Dahrendorf said:" The knowledge society is proving to be a society, that intentionally excludes many from the working environment." Means we will have to be prepared that more and more people will live as new underdogs, because they have been excluded from knowledge-intensive labor market or because they simply decided (because of the intensity of the environment) not to apply in the first place.