<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aabfa35d-67b2-4651-a847-1f03399e60a9/1B5D42AF-6DDC-49C2-A925-4B7E0BB776B7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/eat-work-thats-life-how-to-seem-smarter-dumpster-diving/article1242901/" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/eat-work-thats-life-how-to-seem-smarter-dumpster-diving/article1242901/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theglobeandmail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/eat-work-thats-life-how-to-seem-smarter-dumpster-diving/article1242901/">by Michael Kesterton</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/eat-work-thats-life-how-to-seem-smarter-dumpster-diving/article1242901/"><P> <B><SPAN class="first-letter">E</SPAN>at, work: that's life</B> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/eat-work-thats-life-how-to-seem-smarter-dumpster-diving/article1242901/"><P> "Today, it takes 20 years to become productive," Matt Ridley writes in Wired magazine. "In the typical hunter-gatherer [society], by the age of 15 you have consumed 20 per cent of your lifetime calories but produced only 4 per cent of them. You then start repaying the debt by producing far more than you consume. This is the pattern of modern Western life, too: 20 years of eating and learning followed by 40 years of work to support not just your children, but the taxes that support your parents' pensions. This is rare among mammals, which can usually manage neither the dependence of human youth, nor the surplus of human adulthood." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1B5D42AF-6DDC-49C2-A925-4B7E0BB776B7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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