At 23:50 27-7-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
>At 08:34 PM 7/27/01 -0700 Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> >You can't EAT the Gross National Product. And less and less of it is basic
> >necessities. Ruin the planet and we weill all starve in the name of
> >GNP. We'll have to munch on our toxic computer chips.
>
>You can't eat *without* the Gross National Product either!
Yes you can. Half an hour ago I had two slices of bread with a fried egg
between them for lunch. Didn't see anything in the kitchen labeled "Gross
National Product". <grin>
>If we had no GNP, we'd all starve too.
Puh-lease! GNP is only an convenient term, made up by economists, nothing
else. If we'd all starve without a GNP, how did humanity survive between
the moment we started walking upright and the moment someone invented the
term "GNP"?
Jeroen
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