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[Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> The article says "We are sitting
> on a huge potential boom in productivity -- if we could just get the
> square pegs out of the round holes." Well, no, that's just not it.
> Meaning isn't found in MORE STUFF, whether you are buying it, selling
> it, or making it. Productivity is not the right motivator. When will we
> learn the answer is to stop trying to put pegs in holes in the first
> place?

I read the article a few days ago and I came away with the distinct 
impression that Bronson was speaking of "productivity" in a more 
"meaningful" sense than you give him credit for.  Eg: If society were more 
productive (in the right areas), we wouldn't have starving homeless 
people.  As opposed to, if my employees were more productive, I'd be 
shipping out N times the product and raking in M times the profit.  
'Productivity' is the correct term in either case, but the applications 
differ drastically.

As Paula pointed out, quite correctly,

> It all comes down to how you define meaningful. 

--Sil

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