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Tuesday
I thought this was quite 'insightful':
"Consumer confidence is actually considered a measure of a country's relative economic strength.When a load of poor deluded sad-acts are down at the shops running up debts on their credit cards, finance ministers claim that economy is 'growing' and start celebrating. Recessions are deemed to be over the moment people start spending money which they don't have, on things that they don't need.Consumption is synonymous with 'growth' and growth is good. It is always good, whenever and wherever. Hence clearly consumption is good, all consumption, anywhere, anytime. Judged by the logic of world economics, the death of the planet will be the zenith of human achievement, because if comsumption is always good, then to consume a whole planet must be the best thing of all! "
- quoted from Ben Elton 'This other eden'
3/30/2004|0comments [speak] 