| Jody Berland on Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:41:25 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> The Ideology of Immateriality |
There is extensive research that shows that in North America, at least, the wage gap between high income earners and low income earners is growing at a very fast rate and is larger than at any time in modern history. Where an executive once made 10 or 20 times the lowest paid employee, it is now quite possible that the difference is in the hundreds. Disney is usually the favourite example but McDonalds would probably do just as well. The story made the front page of The Toronto Star this morning and has been extensively investigated in any number of journals, magazines, public affairs commentaries etc. That sounds like a good start for the evidence you are asking for. Jody Berland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: June 12, 2000 8:24 PM Subject: Re: <nettime> The Ideology of Immateriality >From: Tom Gray@MITEL on 06/12/2000 03:47 PM > >There have been many claims that the new economy is producing only 'McJobs.' >However is there any evidence of this. We are experiencing one of the greatest >booms in historry with an enormous creation on non-inflationary wealth with >major increases in employment and income. What evidence is there that this is >marked only by a large incease in the number of minimum wage jobs? The evidence >all points the other way. > > > > > > >Felix Stalder <[email protected]> on 06/11/2000 02:59:18 PM > >To: [email protected] >cc: (bcc: Tom Gray/Kan/Mitel) > >Subject: <nettime> The Ideology of Immateriality > ><...> ># distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission ># <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, ># collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets ># more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body ># archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold