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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.

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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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