Word: meaninglessness
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Neither is the command economy, the polaropposite (if there is such a thing) of the marketeconomy. Here production is God and the consumeris meaningless. Success is measured in raw output:pairs of shoes, tons of lumber, stacks of bricks...
Powell says all those applications mean a lot of time, much of which is spent on meaningless busywork. "There are always small errands to run and forms that need to be typed up and sent in," he says...
...course, it would be a futile, almost meaningless gesture for any one of us to volunteer for combat out of principle. Those one or two pious students would fight and possibly die, and the system would continue more or less unchanged...
...they broadcast are the property of the public. It is not too much to ask in return that these stations provide limited chunks of air time free to recognized candidates. Such a move would liberate candidates from the corrupting need to raise millions of dollars and spend them on meaningless 30-second advertisements. A YES vote on Question 6 would send a message that voters want to hear the candidates take more time to discuss the issues. With publicly financed elections a political impossibility, free air time is the only road available toward a more thoughtful democracy...
...must stop the practice of simply taking pupils who can't or won't learn and running them through the system toward a meaningless diploma. Everybody has a right to education, but that right must be earned with effort and discipline. An alternative to the present chaos is to establish more and better trade schools and on-the-job training programs, as well as national civilian service...