AtDTdA (9): 242: Today's kick-ass question

[David Morris]

On 5/15/07, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> if the "choice" is between renting time of your life to someone else in order to obtain basic necessities of survival, then there is no real "choice"

Well as you phrased it, there is no choice because you've not supplied
the other side of "between."  Of course one option other than "renting
time of your life to someone else in order to obtain basic necessities
of survival" would be stealing/robbing by what ever means it takes.
Another would be to beg.

But anyway, who of us, unless we've inherited a bundle or somehow
obtained a great windfall, doesn't have to rent some of their time out
in order to obtain cash.  This also applies to one who "works for
himself," because the income is still from outside in return for some
product or service.  The renting is inevitable, it seems to me, but
the task demanded and the amount of time demanded seem the real issues
having to do with how felicitous or torturous is that "[non] choice."

David Morris