Re: What do workers compete for?

On Fri, 14 May 2004 05:34:51 GMT
Les Cargill <lcargill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> I do not know what to say except to say that the midwife in 
> primitive cultures was accountable for the birth. The conception
> is reflex, the raising is the hard part. The birth is just
> the critical section.  So midwives accepted the burden of
> villification for a greater good. Not because they were
> heroic, but because they like babies.

A really poorly chosen metaphor.  Before the midwife, birth proceeded
along just fine for the majority.  And in no society did the midwife get
possession of all of the children she "helped" be born.

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