中国人 on Nostr: Society has made it very easy to spend money. 社会让花钱变得非常容易。 ...

Society has made it very easy to spend money.
社会让花钱变得非常容易。
Shopping centers line every street.

Many creative means of spending money have been devised.
人们发明了许多创造性的花钱方式。
Instead of spending 30 seconds opening a can of tomatoes with a traditional can opener, it's now possible to spend 30 minutes working to pay for an electric can opener that can open the can in the same amount of time.

Similarly, many of the ways we used to do things have been redesigned to ensure that instead of doing it ourselves, we can buy some gadget or some service to have it done for us.
同样，我们过去做事的许多方式都经过了重新设计，以确保我们可以购买一些小工具或服务来代替自己动手。
This is convenient,because we're usually too busy working to pay for it to do it ourselves.
这很方便，因为我们通常忙于工作，没有时间花钱自己动手。
This is the gist of the service economy; presumably, if we didn't create enough problems to spend time solving them, the economy would collapse.
这就是服务经济的要旨；可以推测，如果我们不制造足够多的问题来花时间解决问题，经济就会崩溃。