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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: early and never leave off at all, obviously the worst of all possible
plans. In any event we must finally reckon work, not as the curse our
schools and prisons and capitalist profit factories make it seem
today, but as a prime necessity of a tolerable existence. And if we
cannot devise fresh wants as fast as we develop the means of supplying
them, there will come a scarcity of the needed, cut-and-dried,
appointed work that is always ready to everybody's hand. It may have
to be shared out among people all of whom want more of it. And then a
new sort of laziness will become the bugbear of society: the laziness
that refuses to face the mental toil and adventure of making work by
inventing new ideas or extending the domain of knowledge, and insists
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