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From: meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Notice - Social Issues
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In article <333C2D43.24F7@ix.netcom.com>, Eric Lucas <ealucas@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>Elaine Gallegos wrote:
>> 
>> Karen M Cramer <kmc_mst6@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> wrote:
>> : Elaine Gallegos (saturn@primenet.com) wrote:
>> : :  The people it puts out of work are the unskilled. We will always need
>> : : skilled workers to tend the machines that ousted the grunt labor.
>> 
>> : :  Just as we stopped making buggy whips when we stopped making buggies, we
>> : : have to stop making unskilled laborers.
>> 
>> : Unfortunately they all come that way from the factory.
>> : Karen
>> 
>>  Ore frome the ground doesn't look much like that plate in your head
>> either.
>
>
>Personal insults aside, Karen's point is very valid.  No one makes an
>unskilled laborer.  People are born unskilled and need to be given
>skills.  Your comment that "we have to stop making unskilled laborers"
>implies that "making" a skilled laborer and "making" an unskilled
>laborer are comparable activities.  They're not; one requires action,
>the other requires only inertia.  And the verb "making" implies that it
>is something that society does.  It ain't.  It's something that a person
>does for themselves.  If a person wants to be a skilled laborer, then
>let them (or their parents, if they are sufficiently young) take
>responsibility for getting them the education that they need!  If they
>don't, then they have only themselves to blame for their crappy life.
>
No argument with the above but there is one more thing that needs to 
be taken into account.  There is always some percentage of individuals 
that cannot be educated much above an unskilled laborer level.  All 
people aren't equal and, like it or not, half the population is and 
always will be below average :-)

Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"
