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To: TimF who wrote (8150)	2/4/2012 9:25:38 PM
From: grusum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

It doesn't take much to barely survive, almost all labor for most people in modern rich countries, isn't for survival. it's still for survival and reproduction. we just don't need as much labor to survive as we did in primitive times. labor has become more efficient is all. that's the magic of national cooperation through self-interest in a free market. and also for many worthwhile things that aren't necessary to their survival, and also are not labor saving devices. you keep assuming things that i didn't say. the fact that people work for things that aren't necessary for survival, doesn't mean that the fundamental purpose of labor isn't to survive. 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. what you want is the usefulness of the hammer, isn't it? If you don't want to write or draw or mark something how is a pen useful to you? right, you don't want a pen until you need to use it.