Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Measure of success? Message-ID: <22834@lanl.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.22834 Posted: Mon Mar 4 19:18:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 09:48:28 EST References: <257@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <761@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <457@ssc-vax.UUCP> <4943@ukc.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 31 > If you have only just enough money to buy food, pay the rent, the > heating bills etc, then what do you do with your surfeit of free > time? How about go to the public library to learn about skills that might make you more employable. (Of course, I say that because I spend my free time doing just this sort of thing - even though I can afford to do otherwise :-) > It takes money to make proper use of free time. > ^^^^^ Not really (see above). It takes money to perform certain types of recreation, but if your problem is unemployment you should spend your time more productively anyway. > It takes a job to make money. Or a good investment (which also takes money). The first step is a job anyway. > So those least able to use their free time, get the most. > Such is western society. Ah, well. On the contrary. Those most in need of self improvement get the most time to indulge in it. Ah, well - in the east all of these problem never exist: an unemployed person is soon working reducing large rocks to small ones. > -Nigel Gale (resubscribed, God alone knows why) J. Giles