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[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:17 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Sure, but of course they are not *my* proles.  If one wishes to interpret it
> as a disrespectful term meaning below the ruling elite, I do claim immunity,
> for I am a prole myself.  There are those who tell me I have no class.  With
> these I beg to differ.  Low is a class.

I attributed the term to you because you have used it here on several
occasions.  I understand your intent and I still find it amusing every
time.  Perhaps somewhere it connects with A Streetcar Named Desire
where Stanley explains the difference between calling someone of
Polish descent a Pollack or a Pole... though there's no intentionally
derogatory form such as Prollack (not that you would use intentionally
derogatory terms for people) I think of Stanley Kowalski [exemplary
prole] making this distinction for us...

>>... one of my classmates expressed some resentment that "computers" were
> "taking jobs away from people."  I was horrified...
>
> Before being horrified, consider they *are* taking some jobs from some
> people.  Think that one overward.  Of course they result in more jobs, but
> ask your classmate to elaborate.

> While you are at it, try to see his.  You and he might actually be in
> agreement, just looking at the same question from different angles and
> suffering from difference in use of language.

Probably.  I hope he sees that those people most likely to be
displaced by robots are those need most to avail themselves of higher
education.