[Nettime-bold] Re: Fwd: Re: <nettime> the language of tactical media

["N Jett" <njett@hotmail.com>]

Ah yes... Parecon... no longer shall we have surgeons and janitors, instead 
there is just the person who takes out your trash, and your appendix (and 
gets paid more for the trash because surgery is "glamorous"). His "Balanced 
Job Complex" idea seems like a very unfunny joke to me.
The whole "committees to decide absolutely everything" concept is kind of a 
joke too, but no need to get into that here...

The Parecon project may be an "alternative", but it certainly seems 
unfeasible and unattractive and extremely unlikely to go anywhere beyond the 
minds of the radical intellectual elite.
Hopefully he isn't on this list too, the guy gets rather feisty when 
challenged.


>
>On Friday 05 July 2002 10:13 pm, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> > [someone else] wrote:
> > > As a very liberal democrat, I keep waiting for the anti-globalisation
> > > freaks to offer an alternative to the status quo ... but you never do.
> > > If they ever offered the first first idea on how to "better" govern 
>then
> > > I would be their greatest champion ... but all I ever see is 
>criticizism.
>
>Michael Albert, editor of ZNet (http://www.znet.org), has what I think is a
>very sensible proposal called `Participatory Economics', about how regional
>economies could be run on the basis of participatory democracy.  He's 
>written
>two or three books about it:
>
>http://www.parecon.org
>
>Ben
>
>
>
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