> >>Pardon my naivety. What is automation? I've just subscribed and although >>I like Chomsky I am not familiar with all his terms. >>Thanks >> >>Silvia >> >>Ralph Gainey wrote: >>> >>> John Rider wrote ... >>> >>> >There's a very funny classic science fiction story by Philip Jose Farmer >>> >called `Riders of the Purple Wage' in which most people have been replaced >>> >by automation and are on the dole. > >Another aspect of that excellent book is that it describes a shareholder's >democracy. I thought I was the only person who ever read it. > It was pretty popular in the seventies. Was that the story with the system of favors or obligations, `obs', that people exchanged, like helping someone build their house was ten obs which could be traded for so much compost at the general store, etc.? -John "It is a rather startling proposal that bacteria, the organisms that are popularly associated with disease, may represent the causative factor in the origin of species". - Ivan Wallin