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...producer of goods, Galbraith argues, the system works very well, and he scoffs at those who look upon bigness as inherently evil. Yet he does find one overriding fault: the present system puts too much emphasis on goods?washing machines, cars and gadgets???and not enough on beauty and man's search for higher values. In a sense, Galbraith is raising anew, as he did in The Affluent Society, the question of priorities and how wealth is to be divided. Instead of working 40 hours a week in order to be able to buy the full panoply of gadgets...
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