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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Measure of success?
Message-ID: <4943@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 16:45:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 16:45:57 1985
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Summary: 

> >economic systems fail to measure the
> >success of an economy by the ONE THING THAT REALLY MATTERS: the standard of
> >living of those under the system.
> 
> What I consider important is free time. 

I doubt if a man unemployed for three years would place the same
emphasis on free time.

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?

It takes money to make proper use of free time.
         ^^^^^
It takes a job to make money.

So those least able to use their free time, get the most.
Such is western society. Ah, well.

-Nigel Gale (resubscribed, God alone knows why)