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Subject: Re: Measure of success?
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:18:21 EST
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> 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