From: swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Texas Bob/Eddie Froman depending on th'moon)
Subject: New article: Work
Summary: Yea, got another one!
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:30:05 GMT


Hello again everybody...

Here's another article, all set to go (the working.new file on the FTP has
been updated, etc...):

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%t Work
%s Earthling's "work" and the result of it to himself and others
%a Sam Craghead  (scrag@crash.cts.com), (006839@ncsi.com)
%d 19921210
%f SEMI-REAL
%n 2S12
%i Occupation
%i Memo
%i Meeting
%i Money
%e
WORK.  This is what people of earth engage in for most of their lives.  By
"working" they get "money" which they use to buy things which other people
have produced at their WORK.  WORK is also known as an OCCUPATION.  If you
are a worker you get a lot of mail addressed to "occupant".

Some work is called drudgery and is filled with physical toil.  Some
workers work by sitting at their desks writing on bits of paper which they
then pass to other workers like themselves who nod their heads and take
another bit of paper and write on it.  This piece of paper is called a MEMO
and most of their time is spent writing and nodding over memos.  These
workers can practice their nodding while driving to work by placing a doll
in the rear window of their cars, and then observing the nodding technique by
watching the doll nod in the rear view mirror.

This same worker will spend a lot of his workday in meetings (a meeting is a
gathering of memo producers and nodders like himself) where he will nod his
head up and down to much that is said, give a satisfied smile, and leave the
meeting to go to another meeting or go back to his desk to make and nod over
more memos.  This worker will spend a great deal of time telling everyone he
meets how hard he is working.  This latter type of worker will get more money
for his work than the worker who is engaged in physical toil.  This fact
remains inexplicable because the worker who goes to the meetings and works
on "memos" doesn't seem to produce anything which another workers would wish
to buy.  We have never found anyone selling memos.  There just doesn't seem
to be any demand for them except at the workplace, and this demand seems to
be confined to other workers who nod and make and pass memos.

There are some workers, however, who have become so adept at screwing a nut
onto a bolt minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, that he gets more
money than either of the other two workers.  He is made a member of a union.

Money is the device used to purchase produced products.  This money consists
of pieces of paper (this paper is much different than a memo as it is
considered to have value) and denotes value above "change".  Change used to
be called "silver" and "copper", but now the "silver" is copper and the
"copper" has been made from aluminum.  The color of each of these particular
items has remained "silver" and "copper".  The reason for this has never been
disclosed.

In some places on Earth, many of the people have found that they do not have
to work at all to get money.  They just identify themselves as "poor",
"disadvantaged", or as a "victim" of "the system"; they then receive money.
As the number of workers dwindles, and the number of these "poor",
"disadvantaged", or "victims" grows, there will one day be no workers; just
those receiving money by certifying their status as "poor", "disadvantaged",
or "victim".  There is no corresponding group replacing the workers making
products, so when the "poor", "disadvantaged", and "victims" have completely
replaced the workers, there will probably be nothing left to buy except old
memos.  This may be the means for creating a wider demand for that product.
%e
*EOA*

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OK, so that's it for recently received articles.  I've enjoyed this sudden
flux of articles -- let's keep it going!

Go Stick Your Head In A Pig,

Steve
swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu
"Gravity brings me down..."


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