> i.g.batten@batten.eu.org wrote:
>

>> On Sep 3, 9:30 am, "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>>> i.g.bat...@batten.eu.org wrote:

>>>>> Unless it was your job, and those of your children and
>>>>> grand-children, that were swept away.

>>>> There's ambition, eh? ``I want my grand-children to be exactly the
>>>> same as me.''

>>> Where is that said?

>> The only possible interpretation of the concept of ``your job, and
>> those of your children and grand-children'' is that you believe that
>> jobs are like furniture, passed from generation to generation.

> That's not the only possible interpretation.
>
> It is not necessary to postulate a concept of passing jobs between the
> generations. People from different generations may work alongside each
> other in the same industry doing entirely different and pretty much
> unconnected jobs.
>
> A given industry may have a long association with a particular community
> for perfectly understandable reasons - e.g. coal mining in a certain
> place because that place is above a coal seam. The coal seam might be
> well known for having many centuries worth of useful production in it,
> and people in the local area may bring children into the world knowing
> that there is no reason not to believe that there will be work for them
> in the local area when they grow up. Until someone many miles away takes
> a political decision to close the mine down for reasons not connected
> with its viability.