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  • From: "Ryan Albinger" <ryalbinger@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Efficiency
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:27:11 -0600

First question, where will the money come from to create the millions of
good paying occupations and rural prosperity? In order to create an influx
of capital into an economy, local or otherwise, you must generate an
outgoing trade of goods at a value less than they can acquire it elsewhere.

If use of modern machinery replacing hand labor is one of the worst things
to happen to modern society, how do you prospose to pay these people fairly
for their labor. 1 gallon of fuel replaces about 1,000 man hours. Who
will work for $0.003 per hour? You don't have to use all mechanized
equipment, but you also don't need to be absent of mechanization.

The end goal is finding the happy medium to everything.

Ryan




> [Original Message]
> From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
>
> >create millions of good
> >paying occupations and restore rural prosperity,
>
> This is what I keep coming back to when I talk to people about buying
> locally, and about the false economy of "efficiency" (as it's usually
> defined). The use of machinery to do jobs previously performed by
> people is touted as one of modern society's great benefits. I say
> it's one of the worst things that has happened to modern society.
> Yes, machinery has made some occupations much safer than they used to
> be, and good for that. But in the hands of people whose only
> definition of efficiency is a greater profit margin, mechanized
> labor, particularly agriculture, has eliminated millions of jobs.
> They weren't high paying jobs. But they put food on the table,
> dignity and a sense of accomplishment in people's souls, and
> sustained a stable local economy for thousands of small towns and
> villages across the country. That's the true American dream.
>
> Liz in SW VA
> http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
>






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