Re: hamburgers & jobs

[Eubulides <autoplectic@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/18/06, Perelman, Michael <MPerelman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I understand that the Monsanto seeds are leased.  I could be wrong.


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Any guesses as to how much of the NAICS would have to undergo revision
if more processes along the lines of hanburger flipping are to be
considered manufacturing? Also, how far back in time would the enlarge
scope/scale of the applicability of the term would we need to go?

If we de-anthropocentrize the concept of manufacturing would we not be
on the way to collapsing the current distinction between life and
manufacturing? Alternatively, if we follow some practitioners of
ecological economics couldn't we assert that evolution is the ultimate
service economy? Or would we need to come up with better criteria for
stabilizing the criteria of demarcation between the terms economy and
life and service and manufacturing? What happens, as is often the case
in political economy, if/when the ensuing debates create more
dissensus than consensus?