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Originally Posted by jammies
Actually, that's pretty well what a lot of military spending is - production for the sake of stockpiling. And, for that matter, there are plenty of consumer goods that fail to sell and are eventually junked or destroyed. Not to mention wastage and breakage of products before they get to market.
Logically, the sentence only makes sense the other way: we can't consume more than we produce.
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That's fair enough, you can produce more than you consume if you waste it or stockpile it.
But his original statement was that we should switch to a more production based economy and away from consumption. I'm not sure why we'd want to produce more goods and then waste and/or stockpile them. How is that better than consuming them?