Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960412200429.2429B-100000@cbs.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:12:23 -0500 From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.KSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Award To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dr Wengert wrote: > ... We need to consider agriculture and business
> competitiveness as part of the sustainability that we are dealing
> with--considering sustainability without including humans is incorrect.
When competitiveness is sustainable, it's time to start a new language. I think we agreed last year, that competition (at least in its current economic interpretation) doe snot include *humans* - it disects them into "human resources" and components of production.
There are many ways to include humans when considering sustainability. In view of the trend towards contingent employment, it should not be inconceivable that contingent *enterprise* could be developed - a need is identified, a firm convened to address it, and when it has done its job, it is dissolved. Social structures of course would have to change (somewhat!) to accomodate this kind of approach, but that is precisely where humans can be *fully* involved.
kerry mailto:astingsh@ksu.ksu.edu