Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital....Abraham Lincoln

September 25, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

I hope all of you are doing fine. I hear a complain that we are not on schedule and not learning for 90 minutes. I would strongly follow the complain or request to follow the schedule as we should.
However, this would be a labor we have to follow in the coming semester. Let's welcome this.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of capital.  Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.  Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the USA
1809-1865
労働は、資本に先立つものであり、資本から独立している。資本は、労働の
成果に過ぎず、最初に労働が存在していなければ、絶対に存在しえなかった。
労働は資本に勝るものであり、資本よりはるかに考慮すべき価値がある。