A NECESSARY REVOLUTION !


         by DEF KLF / EKO



 During the  latest  election  campaign
in France, the ecologist parties  talked
about  "Sharing"  the work.  Old parties
laughed a lot...   " Those utopic ecolo-
gists are priceless ! " they said.


 French  wealth  is  rising  constancy.
 Since 1981  its  GDP  ( Gross Domestic
Product ( PIB for Frenchies)) increased
of 35%.
 Quoted  share  on  the  Stock exchange
rised of 400%.
 And we don't consume less than we did.

 So why is  there  so  many  unemployed
people ?

 Because employers  need less and  less
people to produce better and more thanx
to new technologies.

An example:
In 1985 in Belgium, 39200 workers  were
used to produce  10,6 millions  of tons
of steel.
 In 1990,  21200 workers  could produce
11,5 millions of tons.
 Conclusion: Production +10%
             Workers    -50%
 Production and  work  haven't  anymore
a real link, so why should we  be  paid
only for our work when  employers  have
also money from machine  work  and  pay
taxes on men and not machines.

  Unemployment,  early retirement, RMI,
training paid by the government...
cost every year about  380 billions  in
France.
 And every year taxes must be risen for
the new unemployed.

  What  is  called  "Share of Work"  or
"Work Revolution"  doesn't   mean  that
with 1 job,  2 people  will  work,  but
that every workers  will  work  about 5
hours less a week, and  that  employers
just pay the  worked hours  so it costs
the same price for  the company to have
100 people working  39 hours  than  115
people working 34 hours.

  But you  will  told  me  that  people
won't accept to be paid less.  That  is
right, because in that  case  we  don't
share work but unemployment.

   So the governement have to pay the 5
hours of work that  people  don't  work
with the money they  used  to  give  to
unemployed.

   And so everybody  is happy,  we work
less  for  the  same pay,  more  people
work, people don't  feel  paying  taxes
for lazy unemployed.

  Moreover as we can't consume more and
more every year  ( we  can't have all 3
cars per family  all  around  the world
due to  ecologic  problems  or  to  eat
twice more what we eat in 93.).
  Whereas productivity  has  no  reason
to stop  we can expect to work 20 hours
a week or less in the next decades. And
we will have to learn new ways to spend
our time,  to  do  voluntary  work  for
charitable organization, to  play  with
computers,  or  any  activity  for  the
community  to  live  in  a better world
together.

 As you can see Ecologist Work Share is
different from what  we often  hear  on
Radio, TV  it  doesn't  mean  flexitime
chose by employers when there are work,
or decrease the pay  with  the  working
time,nor precarious work.


 You still think ecologists are utopic,
or if you  want  to  ask  me  questions
about things  you  don't  understand or
about things  that  as  for  you  can't
work, please write me, or  to  Amazine,
because  I   really   believe  in  this
politic,  I've read many  articles  and
heard many  people  about  this subject
and I think I can answer you.

DEF KLF/EKO's address can be found in
the advertissement part.