The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
All currency is neurotic currency.
All currency is neurotic currency.
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.
Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.
You cannot have the success without the failures.
You cannot have the success without the failures.
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Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
