jam tomorrow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Promised benefits that never arrive.

   “The “purposive” man ... does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam to-morrow and never jam to-day.”

2. isim The availability of a resource at a future date.

   “The consumption-possibilities curve illustrates the choice which must be made: more jam today means less jam tomorrow; less jam today means more jam tomorrow.”