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To: bentway who wrote (120445)	5/3/2008 4:37:16 PM
From: calgarydude	Respond to of 306849

I totally agree with you. This type of job gives social status to people who would otherwise be marginalized. The Japanese attach as much importance to social cohesion as they do to industrial progress - it is a good model for an ultra-high-tech society. Europeans consistently subsidize small farms to maintain the social fabric. It may turn out to be have been a very wise policy when we hit peak oil. In Canada, the election process is very inefficient. We vote on pieces of paper using a pencil. The pieces of paper are then counted (and recounted) by hand in an open area with lots of people watching. The whole process could probably be done by a Diebold machine in less than a millisecond. Of course, that's more than a thousand times longer than I would trust Diebold to give an accurate count. Efficiency should not be our only goal.