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Our non-productive departments consume a great deal of material, mill-supplies and fuels, but if we include those with all the rest of it, our figures will not show a right proportion." "What do you mean by your non-productive departments?" asked the boy. "That seems rather a curious phrase." "Those in which the work done is not directly a part of the making of guns or ammunition.
Moreover, I should be injuring the community at large, by withdrawing a number of persons from industrial employments and transferring them to the non-productive classes.
Observing that his volcanic interrogative eruption was non-productive he slowed down and repeated the questions. "Why are you travelling at this time?" "To take up an appointment in Russia. There is the name Prince " "Ah!" and his eyebrows were elevated so much as to mingle almost with his hair. "But why have you so much photographic apparatus?" "It is necessary for the work I am taking up."
Sometimes it fixes prices, allocates the surplus or distributes the loss. It allocates natural resources, and controls the issue of credit. It also "allocates communal labor-power." It ratifies the budgets of the guilds and the civil services. It levies taxes. "All questions of income" fall within its jurisdiction. It "allocates" income to the non-productive members of the community.
Sports might be criticised by some because they represent non-productive expenditure of energy. On the other hand, no energy ever expended by man is so highly productive of so precious a material as results from manly athletic sports. The products of these games are the substances consumed by them, paradoxical as that may at first appear.
All persons engaged in occupations which a competent tribunal decided to classify as non-essential or non-productive. Any serious attempt to introduce such restrictions and limitations of the right of suffrage in America would provoke irresistible revolt.
There is no excuse indeed for a life of fraud or any other positive fruitless wrong-doing or for a purely parasitic non-productive life, yet all but the fortunate few who are properly paid and recognized state servants must in financial and business matters do their best amidst and through institutions tainted with injustice and flawed with unrealities.
Marvellous thing! in this system of free industry, abuses, like lice, being generated by their own remedies, if the legislator should try to suppress all offences, be on the watch against all frauds, and secure persons, property, and the public welfare against any attack, going from reform to reform, he would finally so multiply the non-productive functions that the entire nation would be engaged in them, and that at last there would be nobody left to produce.
As a result, they were able to acquire private possessions and the city acted as supreme guarantor of their property rights. Urban centers relied on trading and economic might to obtain and secure political autonomy. But communism halted this process. It froze the early feudal frame of mind of disdain and derision towards "non-productive", "city-based" vocations.
For example, we have a large force of draughtsmen working on new models of rifles and mechanisms and on machinery to enable us to make the new types. We make all the machinery that we use, right here in the plant. We make our own tools, too, so that there is a great deal of designing." "Those are not non-productive," commented Hamilton. "We call them so," was the reply.
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