For what we actually want is not a job but the ability to consume.
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The result has been production capacity far in excess of Chinese consumers' willingness or ability to consume.
That is to say, once people had the ability to consume health care without really paying for it, they consumed more of it.
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The ability to consume, modify and share information on enterprise social networking platforms facilitates this in a way that was never possible before in the past.
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What we want is the ability to consume (consume houses, food, clothes, cars etc, all of which are now being made by machine recall) and and income and or a job are only methods of achieving that.
Consumers have surprised me in their ability to consume and save at the same time, even though much of the saving is being supported by transfer payments and the national impact so far has been offset by the negative saving of the government.
However, with the number of people unemployed and in poverty at such high levels, and wages stagnant to declining, people do not have the ability to consume to drive our economy, nor are they paying taxes that help reduce our debt that so many people are concerned about.
As workers all, we produce in order to consume, and when unnatural obstacles retard our ability to trade our labor for what we want, we face a tax, along with a certain loss of liberty.
Medicaid has created a class of medical consumers that do not have either the incentive or ability to consider the cost of the services they consume.
Defined as the ability of your heart, lungs and organs to consume, transport and utilize oxygen, cardiorespiratory health should be tracked and monitored to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
That gave them free cash flow and the ability to pay down some debt, but also continue to consume at about the same pre-recession levels.
The ability to not only look at the big data of how people consume music, but of the structure of the music itself creates whole new vistas of possibilites for how to present music in surprising and enjoyable ways.
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