[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Fri Aug 26 12:41:31 PDT 2005


Joanna:
> I'm confused. Why is having 30% of the population working in agriculture
> worse than having them doing telemarketing?

Because that 30% contributes only 6% to the economy. If they contributed 30%, nothing would be wrong with it, except perhaps that I would not want to be among those 30% - it is a hard, back breaking work.

Wojtek



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