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Not only is this an unproductive way to fill orders, it also turns out to be an unfulfilling way to fill orders.
This isn't just inconvenient, this is inefficient, it's expensive, it's harmful to human health, harmful to the environment, and it's unproductive.
Wealth is ripped away from people who shouldn't be called unproductive.
And when this highly unproductive session is over, you go back to your desk, and you stand at your desk and you say, "Boy, I wish I had those two hours back, like I wish I had my chair back."
Plus, there may be all sorts of other benefits: eased road congestion, decreased harmful emissions, and minimized unproductive and stressful driving time.
But notice we have many unproductive retirees around us today, and we don't kill them and take their stuff.
It's unproductive.
In less than a decade, with international support, the state forest departments and the local communities worked together to restore over 20,000 acres of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves.
Because what we chew over are the upsetting things, the distressing things, and we do it in ways that are entirely unproductive.
And if we do that, we're going to stop seeing cities as big, metropolitan, unproductive blobs, like this.
So I had another unproductive day.
Now, most of the time, we expect the opposite, that people feel guilty for being unproductive, you know, a little too much time on Facebook or Twitter at work.
After Alibaba launched its money market fund, Yu’e Bao, in June 2013, it began reinvesting its Alipay customers’ unproductive micro-deposits.
By encouraging China to build global financial institutions with light regulation, the United Kingdom is not just inviting irresponsible behavior; it could help to pull an entire economy toward ultimately unproductive and even self-destructive activities.
If the EU continues to look inward, consumed by the questions posed by Brexit, the next five years will be as sterile and unproductive as the last.
Freedom of expression facilitates an unproductive cacophony of outrage, so the media must receive clear directives to guide their reporting.
The results have become increasingly obvious and painful: an economy that has suffered more severely in the global crisis than its neighbors to the south; a rent-seeking business elite that is unaccustomed to competition; public and private monopolies that no one seems to have the political will to dismantle; and corporatist pacts that siphon off public resources to unproductive unions, thwarting productivity and growth.
The solution to the productivity problem is easy to state but difficult to accomplish: the country must bridge the widening gap between the “two Mexicos” – the agile, dynamic, post-NAFTA modern economy (the “Aztec tiger”)and the traditional economy of slow-growing, unproductive traditional businesses.
Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round’s “failure” is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self-fulfilling.
Specialization, trade, and pricing – not to mention religions and (economically) unproductive religious institutions, mass production, mass media, and big government – are all recent developments.
It is obvious that this measure creates havoc in business and leads to deeply unproductive outcomes.
Ultimately, whether this is due to self-insurance or to exchange-rate targeting matters little: yesterday this unproductive growth in reserves was an indirect cause of the crisis; today it is undermining demand.
Unfortunately, as in so many areas, Trump prefers unproductive confrontation to cooperation.
Policymakers often view nomadic pastoralism as an archaic and unproductive way of life, with little economic benefit.
Where such efforts would prove unproductive and costly, Europe should tread carefully, while still upholding its values.
Compared to developed countries, an unusually large number of small, unproductive firms coexist with a small number of large, productive firms.
If the small, unproductive firms closed down and the larger, more productive firms hired their workers, total output and well-being would rise.
Indeed, in Book II of The Wealth of Nations, Smith condemned as unproductive the labors of “churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buffoons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc.”
Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive – even counterproductive – and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.
At that time there was little agreement about its usefulness as a tool of international policy, and the G-7 summit at Versailles in 1982 was extraordinarily conflict-ridden and unproductive.
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