Let them see how their utilization (productive versus non-productive time) does exactly that.
Asia's oft-claimed miracle economic growth consisted of two parts: productive investment that resulted from Western and Japanese capital and technology, and non-productive investment that Asians made with their own savings.
It causes an allocation of more capital into non-productive assets such as gold, collectibles, land, etc.
The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
He, and we, need that to happen quite quickly, because the non-productive side is running out of steam.
Great features (or actions) get rewarded, sparking the development of new great features, and non-productive ones get pruned down.
Instead, we need a long-term, comprehensive and compassionate program to ween ourselves from the nanny-state and its attendant, non-productive bureaucracies.
If you think LinkedIn is a non-productive business platform for intelligent conversation and leads, social media is a waste of time.
This can't be ignored: History tells us that in periods of dollar weakness money tends to flow away from the innovative economy and into non-productive, hard assets.
They are not going to come from the ranks of the non-profit do-gooders who spend their days bleating about income inequality and redistributing wealth to the economically non-productive.
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The requirement that borrowings be collateralized (to the extent possible) would give the Russian government and its large enterprises like Gazprom pause before borrowed funds were diverted for non-productive political purposes (e.g. proliferation).
However, positive action from the Congress, such as stopping the huge, non-productive, job-destroying programs such as health care, the financial regulation law, cap and trade, etc. and focusing on tax simplification and tax reduction, can create jobs.
No doubt there is one, but this isn't due to money being too expensive as much as it's the result of capital flowing to non-productive, hard assets that tend to perform best when money is losing value.
Historically, when that spending has gone towards projects with long productive lives (like roads, bridges or schools), it has worked out, but when the money is used for transfer payments, unneeded infrastructure (as in the case of Japan), or non-productive activities like war, the outcomes are less positive.
Although such payments may be justified as part of a social safety net, rewarding non-work and penalizing productive effort reduces jobs and economic activity.
Calling the anti-Springbok posturing by politicians "old-fashioned, anti-reconciliation and counter-productive to fashioning the united non-racial society we yearn for", Mr Asmal said the Springbok now belonged to all South Africans.
But now, losses and non-work are rewarded, while prudence and productive work are penalized.
Instead, the social computing metaphor reflects more accurately what companies actually are: groups of people talking and coordinating with each other to deliver productive goods and services in a highly non-standard world.
Only where violent jihad would be impracticable or counter-productive, does Shariah grant its followers the latitude to engage in jihad in non-violent and stealthy ways.
You can get lots of information on keeping kids safe, secure and productive online from my site SafeKids.com and at ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization where I serve as co-director.
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