<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid000c01c5aa76$2eb51790$9e66dc80@WSokolows"> <pre wrap="">Joanna: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm confused. Why is having 30% of the population working in agriculture worse than having them doing telemarketing? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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.</pre> </blockquote> 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 <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid000c01c5aa76$2eb51790$9e66dc80@WSokolows"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>