Blog 2 - All about the work process...

Bugger! And thanks...I was chatting yesterday with a fellow-member of the 1970's counter-culture (aged hippies) and he grumbled about how some of the anti-materialist 'heads' from back then had betrayed their leftie or working class identification and now had flash cars and second homes in places like Cyprus. People we knew, and people like Felix Dennis, of the alternative press, who became a media mogul. Maybe Branson. I said we shouldn't mind if people get wealthy off their own ability and effort, the main problem is when they do it off other people's work, i.e. as employers, business people, the business class, and not recognising their staff's right to unionise and negotiate how much they get from the staff's work and how much the staff get. And said 'It's all bollocks, that cultural identity stuff, working class or whatever. What matters is your role in the work process.' The cultural and status nonsense is just a visible expression of a less obvious but more fundamental thing - just how, in the work process, some get wealthy enough to have all those cultural expressions of wealth and status and most people don't.

Bugger? In saying 'it's about your role in the work process' I'd hit upon a better way of putting the main observation in 'Us, Politics And The System' - how central is how we relate to each other in producing goods and services. So I've had to revise, yet again, 'The Essential Us, Politics And The System' to use this better term 'the work process'. Thanks, though, to that discussion we had about these things, it's better. I urge you to have more like them with people you know.