Self-Measurement
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ISBN13: 9780217145992
Paperback|9780217145992
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II Do You work as little as you can? Do you shirk whenever your overseer is out of sight? Do you shift your burdens onto the shoulders of other people whenever you get a chance? Do you take advantage of inherited wealth to live without labor? Do you eat the food others prepare; sleep in a bed others have made; live in a house others have built; warm yourself by coal others have lifted from the mine; travel in trains others drive; all without any honest effort to give back to the world; goods or services of at least equal value? Then, however legal your life may be, morally you are a pauper and a beggar, and your rank is minus one. Do you produce or sell articles that look well, and are really sham ? Do you produce or sell adulterated groceries and drugs? Do you concoct or sell worthless or deleterious paten medicines? Do you put on the market stocks, bonds, certificates which you know represent fictitious values? Do you get control of the majority of the stock of one company to vote it in the interest of another, or of its officers as distinct from its stockholders? Do you gamble, or speculate in ways where your gain can represent no good to any one but yourself? Then you are dishonest, a perverter of i the industrial order; and your rank is minus two. Do you scuttle ships, flood mines, burn houses, set forest fires, wreck legitimate industries by manipulation of the market; kill competition by political pull or unfair discrimination, or any means other than superior economy and efficiency? Do you waste what others havetoiled to produce? Then you are a destroyer of the labor of others; your relation to the industrial order is purely negative; however rich you may become the world is so much the poorer for your presence in it; your rank is minus three. Do you work just...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217145992 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021714599X |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $9.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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