unproductive consumption

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n. 非生产性消费

The distinction of Productive and Unproductive is applicable to consumption as well as to labour.
第五节生产性和非生产性的区别不仅适用于劳动，而且也适用于消费。
The modern theory economical mass more and more note that in the realistic society, as a result of some economic systems 'restriction and the guidance, the behavior which the individual draw on the advantages and avoid disadvantages may cause the unproductive consumption of economical resources.
现代理论经济学界越来越多地注意到：在现实社会中，由于某种经济体制的制约和引导，个体趋利避害的竞争行为有可能导致经济资源的非生产性耗费。
And it is also facing many problems in the development of the railway, such as fund shortage in building, confidence shortage of investors, project management methods backward, large unproductive resources consumption and so on.
而铁路在大发展的同时也面临着诸多难题：建设资金短缺、投资者信心不足、项目建设管理方式落后、非生产性资源消耗大等。