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To: grusum who wrote (8149)	2/4/2012 8:55:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"You can save labor by doing nothing..." no, you can't. one must do labor to survive. It doesn't take much to barely survive, almost all labor for most people in modern rich countries, isn't for survival. sure, people will labor for many worthless things. and also for many worthwhile things that aren't necessary to their survival, and also are not labor saving devices. so the usefulness of a tool is based on my desire? how does that make any sense? How could anything else make sense? If you don't want to hammer a nail (or pry one up, or pound on something or whatever), a hammer isn't very useful to you. If you don't want to write or draw or mark something how is a pen useful to you?