Janet Castilleja <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear ATEGERS

Whenever discussions of how poorly educatied Americans are, particualry in
comparison to the poast, it always makes me laugh. We are the most
productive country the world has ever seen. American workers work harder and
longer with less time off and fewers perks than in any other First World
nation.

You may take the fact that people will work harder and longer with less time off and fewer perks as a sign that these same people are highly educated, but it seems evidence to me that the people they are working for are the highly educated ones and they themselves are just dupes for a system designed to reward the few and keep the rest busy all their lives.  Could not a well educated people desire less time at work and more time to pursue those things of value that might lie outside the world of work?  Many anthropologists seem to feel that Americans have a pathological obsession with time and work - that that is in fact most, or all, of what makes up their world.

Could not a well educated people find something other than work to take up the time of their lives? Perhaps not if their educational system has taught them that this is what life is for.





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