[lit-ideas] Re: The Lie of the Master Race/Slave Race
- From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:09:17 -0500
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> From: "Ceridwen Harris" <cmharris@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> >>Only about 1/3rd of Americans
> >>actually work (the population is 280m, but the workforce is only 90m
> >
> > Andreas does that figure for the population include children,
students,
> the
> > elderly, the infirm - etc ? - and of course homemakers who work
> without pay?
> >
> > Just curious about what all those people are doing .............
Andreas (I think) replies:
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> When I first learned that, I wondered the same thing. Once, when I had
> a meeting at another
> company, we stopped at a mall for lunch on the way back. The mall was
> full of shoppers. We
> wondered why all these people weren't at work. Surely, they couldn't
all
> be pretending to be
> on sick leave.
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> 280m is the total US population. I can't remember the exact numbers,
> but if you subtract the
> children, college students, housewives, the elderly, people in
prisons,
> people in hospital
> or in some sort of disability or recovery, and so on, you end up with
> some 20 million people
> who apparently don't do anything.
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> The Census suspects they are "the sister that never married and still
> lives at home with the
> parents", your uncle's "roommate", and so on.
You forgot blokes like me:
When I was 23, I decided I didn't want to work anymore for the rest of
my life, so I took up teaching. I wouldn't call that working and most
don't--at least those who never did it.
Bill Ball
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> By the way, there are about 10-15m Mexicans without residence
> permits in the USA.
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> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
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