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

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Aug 26 19:22:23 PDT 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Joanna:
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>>I'm confused. Why is having 30% of the population working in agriculture
>>worse than having them doing telemarketing?
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>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.
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But what is "the economy"? Do these percentages tell me anything about how the food tastes or how sustainable this mode of agriculture is? Does it tell me whether all who are hungry can eat? These are the important questions.

Joanna


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