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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination [A Digreesion]
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 03:04:38 EDT
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> Imagine a highway 10 miles wide and stretching from coast to coast.
> Further imagine that there's a silver dollar on every square foot of
> the highway.  Now in 1776, we all started a race to see who could get
> the most money.  Except that all black men, all women, and all
> foreigners were tied up , effectively preventing everyone except white
> men from getting more than a mile down the road.  So now, 200+ years
> later, it's time for the referees to prevent discrimination.

Why is it money in the example?  This is not intended as a specific 
attack on this example (I did that in another article :-)), since it
is society in general that says that money is a measure of success,
but I still am not happy with it.  There are lots of pieces towards
being successful that don't involve money-- I'd count my life
successful if I was able to help people when they needed it and
raise good kids, not if I'm the first one in my family to ever earn
$40,000 a year.  It seems to me that part of the problem these days
is that success is almost totally measured in terms of money and the
things you can buy-- more so even than before, when different (and
to my mind better on some counts) goals were used by people to
measure how they felt about themselves.  How everyone else saw you
has always depended a lot on how prosperous you were, but how you
saw yourself seemed to depend on things besides money.  Any thots?

Mark Modig
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