[p2p-research] Job Losses and Productivity

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Maria,

I'm personally for strong  public education, which does not necessarily mean
dysfunctional ones, including in the rural areas,

it's perfectly possible to subsidize and sustain a wide variety of
distributed schooling based on free choice, as long as equal opportunity is
protected at the same t ime,

after the 10 trillion dollar (2 officially, the rest through other means)
bailout of the banks, the reasoning that there is no funding available has
no credence,

as for farming, far from dying out, it's due for a big resurgence ...

of course, Ryan's suggestion may come out if extreme neoliberalism succeeds
in destroying the rest of public infrastructure,

michel

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
>  On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I personally think one of the areas of greatest unemployment will be
>> education.  Schools are hopeless obsolete.  They are, in most rural places,
>> the largest employers by far.  It is an equation that makes no sense as
>> governments run out of money.  Why have teacher intensive schools in rural
>> places?  It's not that I'm against them; I'm not.  They're simply obsolete.
>> It is a matter of time.  People will fight it, and they'll lose.  It's like
>> farming.  Same outcome.
>>
>
> What do you think about "Pennies for peace"? At first I thought they are
> trying to export an obsolete idea. However, I talked to some people
> involved, and it seems like it's more about "community-run learning
> centers."
>
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
> http://www.naturalmath.com
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
>
>
>>   On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Ryan <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Once again...the same thesis...appearing in a different place.
>>>>
>>>> Millions of workers who have already been unemployed for months, if not
>>>> years, will most likely remain that way even as the overall job market
>>>> continues to improve, economists say. The occupations they worked in, and
>>>> the skills they currently possess, are never coming back in style. And the
>>>> demand for new types of skills moves a lot more quickly than workers —
>>>> especially older and less mobile workers — are able to retrain and gain
>>>> those skills.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is this happening to school teachers and administrative stuff? It would
>>> make sense as education becomes disintermediated - much like the job of a
>>> travel agent, the job of someone "providing information" is now done by
>>> students themselves, using online tools. The demand for mentors remains
>>> high, but students increasingly seek them directly, as well.
>>>
>>>
>>
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