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Summary Of Freakonomics: Laid-Back Labor

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Freakonomics — Laid-Back Labor: The 140$ Homemade Scarf A summary: by Nada Alruwaii In " Freakonomics — Laid-Back Labor: The 140$ homemade scarf", Dubner and Levit indicate that music-making as a leisure is in decline in favor of technology; since 1920 around 30000 pianos were sold, while in 2006 sales decrease to 76,966. The authors made comparison between what happened to piano and what happened to other menial works, for instant: gardening and cooking for fun. As an example, one of the authors has two sisters, one of them has a yarn store while the other " is married to a knitting devotee"; She gained 10$ per hour; however, one scarf costs 140$. Consequently, The authors wondered about the reason behind practicing some menial works as
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