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Re: National Archives under threat?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 28 September 10 17:35 BST (UK) »
Sounds reminiscient of Keynes' idea from the 1930s of paying unemployed men to dig holes and paying another group to fill them in again; and just about as productive. Why not something either economically useful like upgrading large slices of our Victorian infrastructure before it collapses, or electrifying the entire railway system with a modern 25KV system, or perhaps something socially useful like cleaning up litter and other mess?
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 28 September 10 23:49 BST (UK) »
Years ago my daughter's then boyfriend, went to Moscow for about 3 months as part of his university course.  There he found, Russian university graduates opening doors for him and others when they entered buildings etc. and on coming out again, a different set of graduates on the other side of the door doing the same thing.  He managed to ask one of them why they were doing it.  He was told they had to and, anyway, it meant there was full employment.  So obviously the Russians had read Keynes. :o

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« Reply #11 on: Friday 01 October 10 12:11 BST (UK) »
Or may be Lizzie that Keynes had read Marx.However, in countries of high population, China, India etc. jobs which are largely automated, or done by one person are often multi handed, i.e. I am told that in an Indian supermarket, your basket will be unpacked at the checkout, each item handed separately to the cashier who then passes it one to another person to repack for the customer. In China, steam railway locomotives had four or even five men to stoke the firebox. Clearly believe the Devil makes work for idle hands!
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« Reply #12 on: Friday 01 October 10 12:24 BST (UK) »
Working like that must be soul destroying though. 


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« Reply #13 on: Friday 01 October 10 12:25 BST (UK) »
But arguably better than doing nothing and finding work for idle hands.
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Re: National Archives under threat?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 01 October 10 12:44 BST (UK) »
To my mind it would be very worrying if the national archives were taken over by a private company.

Whos to say they would look after things properly :(
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« Reply #15 on: Friday 01 October 10 13:25 BST (UK) »
Why shouldn't they ?   
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« Reply #16 on: Friday 01 October 10 13:41 BST (UK) »
The National Archives are about more than just family history

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aboutus

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Norfolk    Rudd    Twite    Hudson    Chapman Moore Spink Adams
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« Reply #17 on: Friday 01 October 10 13:51 BST (UK) »
Yes, I know, but that does not answer my question  :)

I'm not sure why you think that a company would take any less care of something very valuable than a bunch of Whitehall employees who do not get paid on results ?  After all, they haven't got a great track record of taking care of our data, have they ?

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