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If Greed Were Not The Master Of Modern Man, How Could It Be That The Frenzy Of Economic Activity Does Not Abate As Higher Standards Of Living Are Attained, And That It Is Precisely The Richest Societies Which Pursue Their Economic Advantage With The Greatest Ruthlessness?

The Purpose Of Work Is To Give People A Chance To Utilize And Develop Their Faculties; To Enable Them To Overcome Their Ego-centeredness By Joining Others In A Common Task; And To Bring For The Goods And Services Needed For A Becoming Existence.

I Started By Saying That One Of The Most Fateful Errors Of Our Age Is The Belief That The Problem Of Production Has Been Solved. This Illusion, I Suggested, Is Mainly Due To Our Inability To Recognize That The Modern Industrial System, With All Its Intellectual Sophistication, Consumes The Very Basis On Which Is Has Been Erected. To Use The Language Of The Economist, It Lives On Irreplaceable Capital Which It Cheerfully Treats As Income.

It Might Be Said That It Is The Ideal Of The Employer To Have Production Without Employees And The Ideal Of The Employee Is To Have Income Without Work.

It Is Amazing How Much Theory We Can Do Without When Work Actually Begins.