Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:22:22 +0100
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: Blair's willing executioners


In message <l03102800b0332a073557-AT-[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood-AT-panix.com> writes
>Ok, so I'm sitting here with the results of a poll of employed U.S. workers
>done by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Wisconsin Public
>Television. Questions 13 & 14:
>
>"Do you consider your work a career, or simply a job?"
>
>career                   58%
>job                      41
>don't know                1
>
>"Overall, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your current job? Are
>you..."
>
>completely satisfied     24%
>mostly satisfied         62
>mostly dissatisfied      10
>completely dissatisfied   3
>don't know                1
>
>Is this the stuff of which revolutions are made?

To be frank about it, no. 

I don't think that the working class is in any position to make a
revolution, or even to have any great impact upon political life in the
short term.

On your statistics, though, you should read them carefully. Measuring
satisfaction is not a simple measure. Satisfaction is relative to
expectation. The consequence of the events of the last seventeen years
have been to systematically lower people's expectations. 
-- 
James Heartfield


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