Asides on Direction

We found this article deploring the loss of Newspaper might as expressed in reduction of Income and Staff. The theme of the article, though, leaves me doubtful; because Newspaper and Magazine reverses come from the presence of free information from alternate sourcing. Here again is a relative untruth, in that the free information from the Internet is not actually free, but tied to a Package network of coupling to the Internet; the free information serving as enticement to underwrite the expensive Internet Costs. Newspapers and Periodicals become an expensive additional Cost to the expensive subscription of Internet service. Most Economists would disagree at this point, thinking that Internet subscription is relatively cheap and easily paid. I wish they would pay for my $140/month Cable package, $800 Computer, and $40/month maintenance Costs. The combination of provisions make it necessary to carry this Package without relief, and paying for Newspapers and Magazines of which Time eliminates the capacity to read over about 5% of the provided Information seems redundant.

The above process reminds me of another theme I might explore someday: the transfer of Profits from Labor to Business structure. Newspapers and Periodicals depend on Information provided by Journalists of high Salary, while almost all new Business structure relies on basically low Wage positions of Service provision, to the benefit of Management and Shareholder. This is reenforced by Business abandonment of Service Providers who attempt to pass Labor Costs to their Customers. Such behavior is understandable among Retail Customers, yet its adoption by Business reacting to fellow Business presents a real retardation of Management provision of benefits to Labor. The compassionate Boss becomes an Ogre, a fit specimen to himself be Downsized. It is this Insistence on Low-Wage Labor which has characterized the Business environment under the Bush administrations.

There is every indication that current practices will be continued under a McCain administration, as emphasized in another article. McCain economic policy stands willing to constrain adequate payment to individual Suppliers’ of health care, but will insist on continued overpayment of HMOs. The article makes much on Republican allegiance to Private Provision, but the dedication actually relies only on the provision of Corporate Profits, which depend heavily on political contributions; both Parties being highly active in absorption of these funds, and provision of wasteful health spending. Tis a Sad World. lgl