>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...
The "economy," quantitatively speaking, comprises the total of consumable or investible goods and services domestically produced. The 6% figure is surely a gross underestimate, but that aint the point. The point is: telemarketing not only contributes nothing to that total but is really an annoying *disservice* and would be counted as negative in any objective system of economic measurement were such a system to exist.
Shane Mage
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