For society:
Society rewards production better than consumption.
Yet, when you think about it, when no one consumes, the value of production becomes zero, too.
Perhaps my initial sentence should be changed to:
Consumers reward producers.
They're like a pair of chopsticks.
For individuals:
One could argue that when possible, consuming is always better than producing. You're swapping pieces of paper for real goods and services!
We're sort of fortunate that programming counts as "production" while playing computer games count as "consumption", and we're more interested in the former than the latter. I see it as just how the world works; "Fate" if you will. (I'm not religious, though).
EDIT: I save as much as possible and program lots, while my brother spends almost every dollar of his paycheck. So I'm biased.
Society rewards production better than consumption.
Yet, when you think about it, when no one consumes, the value of production becomes zero, too.
Perhaps my initial sentence should be changed to: Consumers reward producers.
They're like a pair of chopsticks.
For individuals:
One could argue that when possible, consuming is always better than producing. You're swapping pieces of paper for real goods and services!
We're sort of fortunate that programming counts as "production" while playing computer games count as "consumption", and we're more interested in the former than the latter. I see it as just how the world works; "Fate" if you will. (I'm not religious, though).
EDIT: I save as much as possible and program lots, while my brother spends almost every dollar of his paycheck. So I'm biased.