{"id":11,"date":"2013-11-14T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shauneeconway.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:07:32","slug":"wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Imagine ten farmers. Each farms for 10 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One day, one of the farmers invents a machine that assists with the farming, reducing each farmer\u2019s workload to 9 hours a day. Is the machine a great invention that the farmers should utilize?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Not necessarily. If building the machine, generating electricity for it, maintaining it, etc. requires an aggregate, average of more than 10 hours a day, then it will have created additional work for the farmers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We live in a very advanced society. And in an advanced society, we have the technology\/option to work less. But we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What costs you more than it helps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine ten farmers. Each farms for 10 hours a day. One day, one of the farmers invents a machine that assists with the farming, reducing each farmer\u2019s workload to 9 hours a day. Is the machine a great invention that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/?p=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shauneeconway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}