标题: Concepts of Comparative Advantage/ Outsourcing as Applied to Household Chores [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-12-2013 13:35 标题: Concepts of Comparative Advantage/ Outsourcing as Applied to Household Chores Catherine Rampell, Outsource Your Way to Success. Want to get ahead? Pay others to do the boring stuff. New York Times Magazine, Nov 10, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/1 ... way-to-success.html
(“Paying someone to buy your groceries or take the car to the mechanic sounds like money down the drain if you’re not billing hourly. But buying yourself an extra hour to work today can be good for your career tomorrow, if doing so improves your chances of getting a promotion or a raise”)
Note:
(a) David Ricardo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo
(1772-1823; Born in London, England, Ricardo was the third of 17 children of a Sephardic Jewish family of Portuguese origin who had recently relocated from the Dutch Republic)
Ricardo is the spelling in both Portuguese and Spanish of Richard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard
(section 2.2 Indo-European Latin language)
(b) “Even if you’re faster and more effective than everyone else at a given task — fighting with the cable company, say, or folding your socks just so — you still might be better off if you pay someone else to do it for you.”
"in perfect order; neat and tidy <Her hair is always just so> <Their front yard is just so>"
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs, 2002 http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/just+so