...filled with leisure, the leisure made possible by "science and compound interest." It will be only those people "who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection the art of life itself and who do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes."...

...may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive and cultivate into a fuller perfection,...will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes. Yet there is no country and no people, I think, who can look forward to the age of leisure and of abundance...

...more to life than just working. On this subject, Keynes wrote, in 1930, that "it will be those peoples who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection,...themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy abundance when it comes." Do you agree? GALBRAITH: Yes. I would say this was a very succinct statement...

...Keynes's advice to free ourselves from the ephemeral satisfactions of conspicuous consumption and become those people who "can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and ... not sell themselves for the means of life." But now, if we look over each other's shoulders, we...

...us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can . . . cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life...will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes. ... we have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy. . . . The love of money as a possession—...