It does not matter if he has never handled a spade in
his life, he must dig if required to, and dig to the best of his
ability.
The payment in Ruskin is not in dollars and cents, but hours' labor,
notes of one, five, and ten hours' value being printed, and passing for
currency in the town.
The community allows each man the value of fifty hours' labor a week,
his wife the same amount, and his children twenty hours each.
The husband is required to work the full time for the community; the
wife is allowed four hours of the day to work for her home, and need
only give five hours to the general good. The four hours that she spends
in her housework are, however, credited to her as hours of labor,
because she is benefiting the community by keeping an orderly home.
In the same way the twenty hours' weekly labor for which the children
are paid are the hours they spend in school. By going to school and
learning they, too, are benefiting the community, so that their labor is
also for the general good.
When school is over, children who wish to do so can wait on table in the
community dining-hall, and then they earn more time-checks.
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