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

Andy F andyf274 at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 27 06:12:15 PDT 2005


--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> >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.
> >
> 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.

Not to mention how much of that other 94% is transaction costs.

Andy

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