Lean Production: Inside the war on public education

[patrice]

59. So the projection is for more done by fewer, faster, & for less @ hr. Ergo, the main solution,

in my way of seeing things, is to transition to co-operatives, so workers have more control over these pressures on their work. I don't know about education, but in other fields I just don't see how these pressures are unavoidable; maybe they can be slowed down, but can they be stopped?

Sorry, I have the flu, do I'm having trouble thinking, but I wonder if our responses to this situation shouldn't include us asking ourselves if, given environmental trends too, whether previous response patterns to these situations are going to be the most useful. I know it sounds like treason to some, but I wonder if the old days of pushing for higher and higher wages is going to work, but then better other solutions all seem to include universal access to the necessities of life, a.k.a. socialism.