Fun is defined something that provides amusement or enjoyment.

Words which relate to fun include escape, pastime, time killer, binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, revel, rollick, romp, spree, frolicking, rollicking carousing, conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), hilarity, jollification, jollity, merrymaking, reveling, revelry, whoopee picnic laugh, riot, scream activity, game

The antonym for fun is earnest and near antonyms for fun include earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity.

Of course, having fun requires people to have overall satisfactory levels of health, wealth, income, sexual and other satisfactions, and a general freedom from fears regarding health, wealth or other unpleasantries.

My position as a parent, grandparent and advisor is that the pursuit of fun can be a negative, if it requires the investment of time and effort which could have been focused on future, rather than present, benefits.

The same observation and concern can be made for governments, institutions and businesses focusing on relieving immediate pressures, at the expense of longer-term issues of greater importance. Increasing compensation and other expense levels is necessary to maintain current revenues if there is pricing elasticity and/or the realistic expectation of future benefit.

Unless there is a future benefit, it makes no sense to me to increase the cost and financial burden just to keep having fun.

 

Arthur Lipper, Chairman                          arthurlipper@gmail.com
British Far East Holdings Ltd.