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A nation should ask how much life it produces, not how much labour it employs
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- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces. For as consumption is the end and aim of production, so life is the end and aim of consumption.
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