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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