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Lazy Money A) There’s no qu
Lazy Money A) There’s no qu
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2024-01-20
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Lazy Money
A) There’s no question that procrastination (拖延) in the workplace is an economic drag. People who step out for coffee or a smoke are, by definition, taking time off from work. And while breaks are frequently necessary to get the creative juices flowing, in this just-in-time economy of long supply chains and 24-7 operations, procrastination is an overwhelming economic negative. But if individual companies lose out when workers doodle (乱涂) on letterhead, send instant messages to their friends, or take frequent YouTube breaks, procrastination can sometimes be a zero-sum game. When you blow off your job, you may be generating sales for somebody else’s employer. The more time you waste, the more money someone makes.
B) Americans can invest in pretty much everything today, but it’s not yet possible to invest in procrastination. You can, however, buy shares in companies whose products and services encourage, abet (怂恿), and enable time wasting and delay. It may even be a good investment; recent research suggests that procrastination is on the rise. Thirty years ago just 5 percent of Americans were self-described "chronic procrastinators"; today that number is up to 26 percent.
C) Of course, the best deals are likely out of our reach in the private equity market—you and I can’t yet invest in Facebook. And many of the other best time wasters are embedded in conglomerates (大型联合企业) that make them far from pure plays, viz. , MySpace and News Corp. But with the assistance of Slate’s stock research department, we’ve assembled a procrastinator’s portfolio and seven stocks that represent different sectors of the sultans of slackerdom.
Starbucks
D) The coffee break is perhaps the oldest and most enduring form of taking time off from regularly scheduled work hours. While Dunkin’ Donuts bills itself as a pit stop for people in a hurry, Starbucks invites procrastinators to sit for a spell, with its comfy chairs, wi-fi service, sweet snacks, and gentle boomer-friendly music. The downside; the stock performs poorly in slack economic times, as $ 4 lattes are an early casualty of penny-pinching.
eBay
E) The online swap (交换) meet is a procrastinator’s paradise. If the competing demands for your attention are preparing a quarterly report or browsing for used Steinway pianos, finishing a paper or taking a look through the 27,257 items on offer in the Home Art & Crafts category, it’s really a no-brainer. eBay is doubly levered to discretionary (自由决定的) e-commerce spending; it makes money when transactions are completed on eBay or on subsidiaries like StubHub, and the company cashes in again if the payments are processed by its PayPal subsidiary.
Altria
F) In the workplace, tobacco is second only to coffee as a time-wasting, consumable vice. Yes, cigarettes are expensive. But Altria, through its Philip Morris subsidiary, makes products to which its customers are physically addicted. That renders the company somewhat immune to the ups and downs of a consumer economy. By passing ever more restrictive laws regulating the time, place, and manner of smoking, society continues to impose additional costs on the use of cigarettes. Ironically, these barriers help make smoking all the more appealing as a procrastination mechanism. In New York smokers who toil in office buildings must wait for an elevator and then clear security going in and out of the building. Forced to congregate with other smokers on patches of concrete, they inevitably engage in further time-wasting conversation. A single cigarette can easily burn up 15 minutes. Bonus: Altria owns a big chunk of beer giant SABMiller, whose products help fuel late afternoon and evening time wasting.
The New York Times
G) When the economy is in the gutter, when cash is low and when the purpose of time wasting shifts from blowing off work to blowing off the search for work, products that offer free or low-cost time-wasting opportunities become more attractive. And for procrastinators of the better sort, there’s no better outlet than The New York Times. Read the full contents of today’s newspaper, check out the expanding roster of blogs, half-heartedly search for a job in the classified, or wholeheartedly engage in real estate voyeurism by checking out condo ads. Later in the week the crossword puzzle can make the long acres of the afternoon pass by in the blink of an eye. Subsidiary About, com is also an excellent time sink. In the first quarter, while the consumer economy was in the tank, The New York Times’s online advertising revenues rose a healthy 18 percent. Apple
H) For users of PCs, time wasting may be confined to playing solitaire (单人纸牌游戏). But iMacs and MacBooks, which generally arrive embedded with cool video features, offer lazy, creative slackers the ability to waste time by making movies and engaging in iChats—without having to buy and install new software. And in iTunes Apple has developed the online equivalent of that increasingly rare time-wasting destination—the used record store. Why work when you can explore and sample the 145 versions of "Danny Boy", including a truly unfortunate rendering by Tom Jones! Google
I) Google is one of our age’s great productivity tools. It’s also one of our age’s great counterproductivity tools. Every time you waste time, Google profits. In recent years Google has aggressively moved to corner the procrastination market by acquiring Doubleclick, which serves up ads when surfers log on to sites, and by buying the ne plus ultra of procrastination; YouTube. Endlessly entertaining and best used at work, where broadband connections allow for trouble-free downloads, YouTube has replaced television as the most reliable source of recreational (消遣), time-consuming daytime viewing activity. Akamai
J) Here’s one of the central contradictions of the procrastination economy; as Web surfers waste time by poking around the furthest reaches of the Internet, they don’t like to waste time. When websites are slow to load, when video seems to buffer endlessly without playing, these are the times that try souls. And businesses know this. So they turn to Akamai, the company whose services "enable enterprises, government agencies, and Web-centric businesses to deliver content and applications faster, overcome infrastructure obstacles, accelerate online initiatives, and minimize cost. " Translation; it helps procrastinators load their sudoku games faster. [br] The difference between Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts lies in that Starbucks serves people who want a rest while Dunkin’ Donuts serves people in a hurry.
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答案
D
解析
由题干中的Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts定位到D)段第二句。同义转述题。由定位句可知,唐恩都乐把自己宣传成为忙碌的人提供短暂休息的场所。而星巴克却倡导用舒适的椅子、甜品等服务吸引那些有空闲时间的人。题干是对定位句的同义转述,故答案为D)。
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