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To: Neocon who wrote (12529)	5/18/1999 6:36:00 AM
From: PiMac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Neocon, I was suggesting much more than stock sharing. The market is a place only for money. There is no other purpose. Pension funds, mutual funds..all 3rd party investing and much 1st party investing have as sole object making money. This I do not criticize. Stock also has the dimension of ownership, of control and direction of the company. This ownership stake is what wage-earners lack and stock-owners have. They have no stake in the hours of their life spent working. This results in alienation. Alienation is an underlying problem to many issues that seem insurmountable. Conversely, stock owners have no connection to the company, itself. Their stock is only money, not meaning. In a fluid society, a community based on the workingplace has appeal. There would have to be greater changes backing up the employee stock idea. Specifically what changes are unclear. There are niggling doubts about the whole idea, too.