Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. (46) But after the division of labor has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with which a man’s own labor can supply him, the far greater part of them be must derive from the labor of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labor which he can command, or which he can afford to purchase. (47) The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it is equal to the quantity of labor which it enables him to purchase or command. Labor, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. (48) What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dis
Nowadays, more people are living closer together, and they use machines to produce leisure. As a result, they find that their leisure, and even their working hours,, become (1) by a byproduct of their machines, (2) noise. Noise is in the news; it has acquired political (3) , and public opinion is demanding, more and more (4) , that something (5) about it.
To control noise is to demand much (6) (Annoyance arises often from, (7) of common courtesy), a sense of proportion ( There is usually a (8) of interest if a noise is to be stopped), the (9) of money ( and it is far more economical to do this early (10) than late), and, finally, technical knowledge.
Though the (11) care for noise is to stop it at its source, this may in many (12) be impossible. The next (13) is to absorb it on its way to the ear. Domestic noises may be controlled by forethought and (14) , and indust
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