Timeline for Is my understanding of this sentence right?
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| May 21, 2014 at 17:08 | vote | accept | CYC | ||
| May 21, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | NANDAGOPAL | Absolutely! the whole article was a review about the book "Junkyard Planet’s". So whatever the article says is actually whatever the author of the article thinks the book says. Maybe if you read the book you may have a different opinion. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 16:10 | comment | added | CYC | So to be clear, the author of this article(not the book) does think this economic system distributes junk more efficiently than justice ? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 15:39 | comment | added | NANDAGOPAL | And if instead of taking a global view, we just analyze it literally by the paragraph I quoted in the original question."an economic system that distributes justice far less efficiently than it does junk." might not be confusing, but it will definitely make me think that the author of the article is trying to accuse the book for trying to celebrate the efforts of the scrap grubbers and attack the advocates in favour of a system that helps make money instead of uphold ethics. | |
| May 21, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | NANDAGOPAL | I have not read the book and I had no idea tat such a book existed untill I read your question CYC. I read the article completely and this is what I gathered from the article. The problem here is, the paragraph you have the doubt on is meant to be the summation/summary of the whole article, so if you want to understand the actual meaning of the paragraph, then you will have to put the whole article in context. But we can still take the literal meaning of just the paragraph, but it wont be justice to the meaning being conveyed by the summation right? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | CYC | And if instead of taking a global view, we just analyze it literally by the paragraph I quoted in the original question."an economic system that distributes justice far less efficiently than it does junk." would be confusing, we don't know whether this is what the book says or is taken for granted by reader or the thought of labor advocates, right? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | CYC | Tanks for the extremely helpful answer, but I still have one question. You mean"an economic system...than it does junk" is actually "an economic system that(others like labor advocates think it) distributes junk but not justice.(by means of efficiency) "? | |
| May 21, 2014 at 10:33 | history | edited | NANDAGOPAL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2014 at 10:27 | history | answered | NANDAGOPAL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |