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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (46061)	7/19/1999 2:57:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Both people who work well, and people who work poorly, and even people who do no work at all, all live off what is produced by the land and total man hours of a country. What is produced cannot be infinite (duh!). If you give more to the unproductive people less will be available to grow the productive part of the economy (the actual working workers), and if you give less to the unproductive more will be available to the productive people and thus production will grow. We are here only considering the actual products of labor.

To: E who wrote (46061)	7/19/1999 3:01:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If I showed off my instrument while trying to communicate I would probably end up in jail.... Really, though, the object of expository prose is to communicate a point, not to show off one's instrument, and clarity is the supreme virtue. Were we discussing poetry I might be tempted to read it aloud, admire its cadence, and forget about what it's supposed to mean. That might be an amusing exercise for a paragraph or so, but would you be up to 300 or so pages of it? More than anything else it seems written as a sermon, a form I do not much care for. This might have tempted me to judge harshly.