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Originally Posted by bizaro86
You said in your first post that our economy was 75% consumption based like it was a bad thing. Now you're posting a link about food waste (which is terrible, of course).
I'm not sure I can follow the argument there. If we're wasting 25% of what we produce (which seems high, on average) wouldn't increasing the consumption of goods/services be a good thing?
I guess I don't follow your point.
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It is a bad thing and not sustainable based on the laws of leverage it is not sustainable. Obviously not everything that is produced is consumed and a simple example was used to illustrate that point. Go look in a McDonalds dumpster if you don't believe me. People are using credit to buy junk food that they eat half of to deal with their stress that they are in debt.
Like the junk food credit doesn't fill you up and won't satisfy in the long term. The system needs a major overhaul as it is too leveraged to consumption. How many drive throughs did you go through in 1984? How many in 2012. Simple example but don't want to consume much more time....waste....