Production and Consumption
An interesting observation from
dispatches from TJICistan:
America has only x% of the world�s population, but consumes y% of z
I am sick and tired of hearing the phrase �America has only x% of the world�s population, but consumes y% of z�.
No matter what z you�re talking about (gasoline, beef, chlorinated water, housing, steel), it�s a fact that the world does not have any z. Z is produced by humans.
Except for times when government gets involved in the steal-and-redistribute game (once upon a time beyond their borders via imperialism; nowadays mostly with in borders via welfare state socialism) folks consume exactly what they produce.
TJICistan has only 1% of this neighborhood�s population, but it consumes 10% of this neighborhood�s books.
TJICistan has only 1% of this neighborhood�s population, but it consumes 50% of this neighborhood�s homemade cheese cakes.
You know, TJICistan has only 1% of this neighborhood�s population, but it consumes 100% of this neighborhood�s hand-produced wooden bowls.
Bah.
Humbug.
You know why we consume X% of the gasoline and X�% of the beef, and X�% of the iron?
Because we willed it into existence in the first place.
Go produce something (besides whiney white liberal guilt and left-wing editorial columns) and quit your moaning, hippies.
What they said...
Posted by DaveH at May 27, 2008 11:30 AM