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The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
Where there is too much, something is missing.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.
A Note Regarding Supplemental
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
The supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons
Count not what is lost, but what is left.
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.
Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.
Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
True charity is liable to excesses and transports.
Excess is success.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little,
Shall get a plenty more.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly
Fortunately there are wars. And rationing is one of the grandest inventions of man. You stamp paper with figures and you feed stomachs on numbers.
I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.
If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.-- Laozi
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
Things unused burden and beset.
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product,
I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.
Things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
Paperchase. And it is on a deduction drawn from
If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.
The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
We lose; and only what we lose we have.
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
In other words, every cent the French government spent on guns for the Americans was another centime it would not have to spend on butter for the starving peasants who would one day storm Versailles.
The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. ("It's difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.")
Excess is not progress.
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
Stocking up" is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.
Weight justly and sell dearely.
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
Everything owed is due again.
He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
The reasons of the poore weigh not.
[The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.
If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.
We have more than we use.
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
What vast additions to the Conveniences and Comforts of Living might Mankind have acquired, if the Money spent in Wars had been employ'd in Works of public utility!
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed ... we must bear the present evils and fortitude ...
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.
This suggests that the more money you have, the larger the dollar increments that will be required, at the margin, to increase your utility.
He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
When your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.
Were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of
In delay there lies no plenty.
Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?
That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a mass of things are made which are of no use to anybody, and with which nothing can be done).
One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.
waistcoat-pocket,
I believe the phrase you're looking for is 'too much money and not enough things to spend it on.
Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.
Replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue
My share, it should be lost.
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.