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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Compensation

The most important commodity of life is time, says Thoreau. Employers pay us to face the opportunity costs of investing in one particular form of work rather than in other activity. We could always be spending our time differently; it's about the choices that we make. And our employers at least in part are paying us for that time so that we continue to choice in spending our time in one way or another.

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