非生产性消费 meaning in English

unproductive consumption

The breach in the capital of the country was made when the government spent a ' s money : whereby a value of ten thousand pounds was withdrawn or withheld from productive employment , placed in the fund for unproductive consumption , and destroyed without equivalent
政府用掉甲的钱时，国家的资本已被毁掉，已从生产中提取了一万镑资金，转用于非生产性消费，并把它毁灭了而未创造出等价物。
In truth , it is only after an abundant capital had already been accumulated , that the practice of paying in advance any remuneration of labour beyond a bare subsistence , could possibly have arisen : since whatever is so paid , is not really applied to production , but to the unproductive consumption of productive labourers , indicating a fund for production sufficiently ample to admit of habitually diverting a part of it to a mere convenience
事实上，只有在已经积累起大量资本以后，才有可能预先向劳动者支付超出最低限度口粮的报酬，因为付给劳动者的这种报酬，实际上不是用于生产，而是用于生产性劳动者的非生产性消费，这就需要有足够充分的生产基金，将其一部分经常用于单纯的享乐。