Some tough questions are asked here:<\/p>\n
[Perhaps] we ought to be asking is a totally different set of \t\tquestions about Work and Money.<\/p>\n
Why, for example, does the actor so eagerly \t\tlive to work, while the factory-worker, though often far better paid, \t\treluctantly works to live? How much money would men need, beyond the \t\tsubsistence that enables them to continue working, if the world (that is, you \t\tand I) admired work more than wealth?<\/p>\n
Does the fact that he is employed fully \t\tcompensate a man for the fact that his work is trivial, unnecessary, or \t\tpositively harmful to society: the manufacture of imbecile and ugly ornaments, \t\tfor instance, or the deliberate throat cutting between rival manufacturers of \t\tthe same commodity? Ought we, in fact, to consider whether work is worth doing, \t\tbefore we encourage it for the sake of employment? In deciding whether men \t\tshould be employed at a high wage in the production of debased and debasing \t\tcinema films or at a lower wage in the building of roads and houses, ought we \t\tto think at all about the comparative worth and necessity of bad films and good \t\thouses? Has the fact that enthusiastic crowds cheer and scream around \t\tprofessional footballers, while offering no enthusiastic greetings to navvies, \t\tanything to do with the wages offered to footballers and navvies \t\trespectively?<\/p>\n
-Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker, Ch.11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some tough questions are asked here: [Perhaps] we ought to be asking is a totally different set of questions about Work and Money. Why, for example, does the actor so eagerly live to work, while the factory-worker, though often far better paid, reluctantly works to live? How much money would men need, beyond the subsistence … <\/p>\n