On Wed, 17 Jan 1996 13:47:26 EST Henry Grunder said: "I believe that most economists would shake their heads sadly and observe that persons who deliberately and out of free choice _choose_ to enter and remain in employment sectors where they know - or should know - that compensation has been low, is low, and will doubtless continue to be low, are simply acting economically irrationally." I suspect that, buying into the neo-Darwinian model, they would in fact say that such persons were not behaving irrationally, but were improving the inclusive fitness of their culture by sacrificing themselves for the preservation of its values... :-) Pat Galloway