Re: Openness amplifies Inequality?

Posted by Gary Schiltz-4 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Major-bug-called-Heartbleed-exposes-Internet-data-tp7585135p7585167.html

Ah, visualize the scene: Steve pulling the plow, singing "I'll never be your beast of burden” and his wife behind with the whip, shouting “More work, less singing!” :-)

On Apr 11, 2014, at 12:07 AM, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 4/10/14 10:47 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
>>
>> Women lost their equal work status 10,000 years ago when the plow was invented.  This is a complicated issue.  It will take time.
> I actually own a primitive plow (more appropriately known as an Ard) which my wife and I used in our garden for a (very) short time.   Despite my wife being no slouch physically, mentally nor emotionally, it *always* worked better when I was harnessed up to pull the ard and she managed the guiding of the path and depth of the (wooden) share rather than vice-versa.  If we were being paid for this work according to it's utility it would be a very low rate and I think her task would be more valuable since in principle I could (and should) be replaced by a stronger and more tireless beast.


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