Peter Cook Quotes
All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
Cook, Peter, et al. Beyond the Fringe. Samuel French, 1963.
The Japanese have had this situation and have found a good solution. The older workers are treated the respect of the highest level workers but they relinquish authority and control to the mid-level coming up. They in turn, do more teaching and mentoring, and work fractional time as and when they prefer to. Callahan assumes that most jobs are in large companies with hierarchies based in large part by seniority. However, most of the new jobs in America are created by small companies and start-ups and there always opportunity for new companies started by people of any age. His economic view is that of a static economy and not a growing one, when growth has on the average characterized the American economy since the founding of the country.
Peter Edward Cook was an English satirist and comedic actor. He was a leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
