hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
When the Economy Rules the Country..
"GOOD workers are becoming so hard to find that employers are pleading with the courts to keep them out of jail.A Queensland judge was asked twice yesterday to spare defendants from jail sentences because the tough economic times meant their employers could not do without them.
Commerce Queensland president Beatrice Booth said it was almost impossible to have staff exempted from jury duty and productivity was taking a hit from jury service obligations.
"If they're at government-imposed duties, then the productivity for those days is non-existent," she said."
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Is this how fanatically focused we are becoming on the purely economic issues of productivity, material growth, and good and services? What about the other aspects of life?
One of our main problems as a society is that we have created no sense of personal accomplishment beyond material and economic conquest, leaving people greedy and unfulfilled. We certainly don't need the economy ruling life to an even greater degree. Sure the economy is important, but how important? Materialism should be seen as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself.