我以为他们失业了。他们在任何记录上都没有表现出失业,但法国和整个欧洲的实际失业人数是巨大的。在法国百货公司每购买一次商品,就会有大约一个小时的时间被浪费;每天数百万小时。出纳员、档案员、这些记录的保管员从来没有做过任何富有成效的工作。
(I thought they were unemployed. They did not appear as unemployed on any record, but the actual unemployment in France and throughout Europe, was enormous. For every purchase in a French department store, something like an hour's time was unemployed; millions of hours a day. And the cashiers, the filing clerks, the watchers of those records, never did a stroke of productive work.)