[IP] more on WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
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From: Jock Gill <jock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 7, 2004 11:21:30 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE SORRY STATE OF
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Dave,
A couple of interesting questions along this topic:
1] What does it take to add enough value to justify a $10/hr wage?
$15/hr? Remember that agricultural employment peaked in about 1918 at
40+%.
2] Is our economy creating enough jobs that will support these $10 -
$15 dollar an hour wages that add more than $10 - $15 dollars of value?
At what price point do we export moderate level value creating jobs?
3] Are we as a culture creating people able to add enough value to
warrant $15 hour jobs? Isn't this what Cosby is actually talking
about? What are the factors involved in creating a demographic that
may be incapable of adding enough value to justify a $15 hour wage? How
big might this demo be?
4] Is this an inevitable result when we depend so much on an economy
driven by consumption and celebrity and success appears to be mostly
measured by dollars?
Curious.
Jock
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