Proverbs 12:11 is misapplied by the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger. This scripture mentions that the one cultivating his ground will be satisfied, but the one pursuing valueless things will become needy. This is the scripture that the Tower uses to ban anything not directly pertinent to field circus.
However, it should be obvious that the misery itself is one of those "valueless things". Honestly, anyone that has spent any time in the field circus feels that the time has gone totally to waste, and that the participant has had no personal gain whatsoever. This also goes to attending so many boasting sessions every week. They interfere with secular work and maintenance of dwellings, which make for sustenance.
People that spend most of their time in field circus or at those boasting sessions, or studying Witchtower littera-trash will find that they have little time left for other things. We all know how much the pioneers are in need of material things, often doing without basic things as food and housing. This is simply because they waste all their time on valueless things that do absolutely nothing to provide material security or to sustain a family. They also waste so much money on things like donations to the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund, gas, automobile wear and tear, field circus supplies, suit dry cleanings and replacements, and fast "food" for lunch every day. All of which drains their already limited supplies.
The same article goes on to have the audacity to proclaim money as one of those valueless things. While I acknowledge that money has no inherent value (and that goes double for our Federal Reserve Notes that have no backed value and are in fact headed for zero value), it is the purchasing power that has the value. Without purchasing power, one cannot buy gas for that car, nor can one buy a car, for the field misery. Nor can one order supplies like suits, field circus bags and log books, Big Macs or Whoppers, or funds to put in the Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund. Let alone money that buys appliances, furniture, music CDs, housing, clothing, school supplies, or that pays your electric, phone, or Internet bills.
On top of that, there is the potential for work itself to be fulfilling. True, for 99.9% of us, that is not the case (I blame the regulators and the big companies that get them elected for that). But, if each of us were free to do whatever we wanted and make a living from it, ultimately most of us would have jobs that would be entertaining and exciting (and hardly be able to wait to get to work). And they would create value for society, helping drive down costs of living, and giving people a better standard of living (and perhaps a new product that people would wonder how they ever got along before it appeared). That would definitely not be a valueless thing.
I inadvertently took the advice in that Puketower article about 3 years before it is to be studied. I quit the ultimate valueless thing: I stopped wasting my time and energy going to boasting sessions and out in field circus. Now I no longer have to worry about that it's the end of the month and I have not put in any field circus time, and that I have littera-trash piling up at the Kingdumb Hell (it's not my problem). I took some of the money I saved (and some of the time) and bought a computer, which is of much higher value. Now, I hope to do some restitution for the value I destroyed helping others engage in that "valueless thing" by helping others to see that Jehovah's Witlesses are a scam, and dissuading them from pursuing that valueless thing anuy further.