At 02:48 PM 7/28/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>>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"?
It depends do you think that something exists only because we humans give
it a name?
GNP is a *measurement* of something that is always there - the total output
of the laborers of a given country. Just because you don't measure it,
doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Then again, given that you see a huge difference between saying that "I
would exchange my life for money" on one hand, and "I would exchange my
life for money *and* spend it too!" on the other, I don't have much
confidence that you will be able to grasp this concept either. I mean,
gee wiz, Jeroen - did you *really* believe that I would exchange my life
for money and *not* spend it? Or did you think that I would exchange my
life for money and then spend it on one, rockin' party before I passed away
shortly thereafter? And if you didn't believe any of these, why do you
persist in publicly insisting that I engaged in unfair debate?
:-(
When you write something like:
>First you said "ABCD", then you added "EFGH", which turned your statement
>into "ABCDEFGH". The first statement does not equal your second statement,
>therefore it has, by definition, changed.
That is like noting:
1) I said that I have a dog.
2) I said that I have a dalmation.
and then telling me that I changed my answer in #2 from #1!!!!! Good grief.
JDG
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