The Embarrassment of Riches
Sir, —Your correspondent “Bewildered” anent “Embarrassment of riches,” asks: “Who will put it right?" We are up against the laws of cause and effect.
The cause apparently is mechanisation. Will man scrap the machine? If one nation does so. will another? If man will not, or cannot do that, he must, as you suggest in your leading article on November 27. reshape the economic system to meet the changing requirements of scientific progress. His only alternative is to perish. Will he? ’ Self-pre-servation is the first law of nature. When it is all over. New Zealand’s chief asset should be the people. 'Will there be a memorial for the victims of the slump? I’m afraid not: too many of them will be a. liability. We pay, somehow, sometime. but we always pay.—l am, etc.. A.L. Wellington, November 29.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 9
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