Merle,
How then would you think it would be best to measure 'productivity'?
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
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> Â you have hit it on the nail joe..wake up billllllllll.....merle
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> Bill!, Merle,
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> I think that wealth has mostly to do with Inheritance, not production.
>
> This is the traditional passing down of wealth within families, as a windfall
> to each succeeding generation which obviates -- even discourages --
> production.
>
> I don't think that the truly wealthy are productive in any sense, not even as
> consumers. ;-)
>
> Well, when they feel an urge toward philanthropy, and fund the building of
> libraries, research-trusts, and medical facilities, there is production, but
> only funded by them: they do not dirty their hands to do the actual work to
> build these productive places, and don't have skills.
>
> Now, from the point of view of INCOME, and not of WEALTH, I can say that, as
> an academic scientist, my salaries have always been extremely small, yet I
> consider my productivity to have been extremely high (I work in a society
> that features a Capitalist economic system).
>
> I also feel this way in my present role as a Yoga teacher, and
> beginning-meditation instructor and Dharma teacher. It's not measured by
> income, neither by me nor by society, my clientele.
>
> Bill!, the artists -- Painters -- who painted in France and lived
> impoverished lives during their times... many died paupers. Were they
> "productive"?: They had nothing to show for it in their times, if they were
> (and, how about Mozart?). Now, some of their paintings sell for a quarter
> BILLION dollars US: are they productive? In what sense, Bill!?
>
> --Joe
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> PS Was Mother Theresa productive? She worked in Capitalist India.
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> > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote:
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> > In a society with a capitalistic economic system isn't wealth the measure
> > of how productive each member is? If that's the case then aren't wealthy
> > people by definition more productive than poor people?
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