"Voluntary Simplicity"

[W. Kiernan]

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> 
> > "The trend toward voluntary simplicity has been
> > expanding for more than a decade," explained Cherrier.
> > ...
> 
> Can anyone explain? Or am I once again being
> too earnest and missing the punch line?

If (making up numbers) there were five thousand U.S. citizens practicing
"voluntary simplicity" in 1992 and today there are two hundred thousand,
that trend would show an impressive rise but it would barely affect the
aggregate spending of the two hundred million who do not practice it.

Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net