The capital error of this system, however, seems to lie in its representing the class of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, as altogether barren and unproductive.
The statistics that measure what is happening in labor markets also present special problems that are not present when considering statistics about inanimate factors of production.
We invested in the second scenario, and backed 26-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur Eric Muthomi to set up an agro-processing factory called Stawi to produce gluten-free banana-based flour and baby food.
我们选择了后者,向一位26尼亚企业家, Eric Muthomi 给予了投资,帮助他设立 Stawi 农产加工厂。该加工厂专门生产无麸质 以香蕉为主面粉和婴儿食。
Because human beings have volition and make choices, unlike inanimate factors of production, many people choose not to be in the labor force at a given time and place.
But when the culture is no longer able or willing to support unproductive hedonists, those addicted to pleasure, lacking skills and discipline, and therefore unable to fend for themselves, find themselves lost and helpless.
All other expenses, and all other orders of people, even those who, in the common apprehensions of men, are regarded as the most productive, are, in this account of things, represented as altogether barren and unproductive.