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7. The only real solution to our - difficulties is to produce more food to aid Great Britain's recovery, and more of other goods to maintain our own standard of living. 8. As we have full employment and many vacant jobs, more production can come only from greater efficiency, and more output per production unit and per worker, in every field of economic activity. 9. The general standard of living comes from the sum total of every person's contribution to the supply of goods and services, and to ensure that the person who contributed more can draw more, payment for work should be linked with output by incentive pay, payment by results, or other means as may be appropriate in particular cases. The war has shown what the country can achieve when it is united in pursuing a definite objective. We in New Zealand have the skill and the resources. Let us combine with these a determination by each of us to increase his or her contribution to the national pool of goods and services, for by so doing we will not only be assisting materially to relieve the position overseas, but benefiting ourselves as well. Never in the history of the world has it mattered so much to others what we think, what we do, or what we leave undone; never has it mattered so much to us what others think, plan, and do. The fundamental needs of human beings do not change much through the ages. We need security, food, shelter, liberty (both personal and community), selfrespect, faith in ourselves, faith in our fellow-men, and faith in our future. Through the application of our inborn gifts of brain and physical energy to the material environment to which each successive generation has been born, we have changed that environment. We have progressively made the world yield up more of its wonders, more of its bounty, more of its productivity. This has been made possible by two basic developments — (i) The increase in practical scientific knowledge of industrial techniques; (ii) The increase in individual and collective interdependence. The part played by scientific and industrial methods in contributing to our modern standards of living is not questioned or doubted, because it is tangible and measurable. The no less fundamental part played by interdependence (individually, nationally, and internationally) is less fully appreciated because it is intangible and immeasurable.

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