From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: RE: Zygmunt Baumann, "Whatever Happened To Compassion?"] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:37:45 -0500 Thanks Steve, I've been busy the past few days and am just catching up. I look forward to reading this. -----Original Message----- From: owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU [mailto:owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU] On Behalf Of steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 9:58 AM To: ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net; lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Zygmunt Baumann, "Whatever Happened To Compassion?"] Eric In my continued efforts to direct you attentiontowards the work of Bauman... I discovered the below link today. steve "Whatever Happened To Compassion?" Zygmunt Baumann In the USA ten years ago the income of company directors was 42 times higher than that of the blue-collar workers; it is now 419 times higher. Ninety-five per cent of the surplus of 1,100 billion dollars generated between 1979 and 1999 has been appropriated and consumed by 5 per cent of Americans. What happens inside every single society occurs as well in the global sphere - though on a much magnified scale. While the worldwide consumption of goods and services was in 1997 twice as large as in 1975 and has multiplied since 1950 by a factor of six - 1 billion people, according to a recent UN report, 'cannot satisfy even their elementary needs'. This story continues at: http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/07/24/1726256
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