and these stories can go on all night long they will tell you about the exact chicken, and how much they sold it for and the man that bought it and what he bought bought it for and not a single story about an egg that got hatched
and the funny thing is one of these men who showed up to buy a chicken drove up in a brand new hummer and paid top dollar they bought three of them he needed them so the witch doctor could use them to put a curse on one of his enemies (I know this, because my father in law is the witch doctor, business has been good since he moved into the city) so there is a lot of ways to measure wealth gdp may be one of them I guess it just depends on what it is exactly for you, you are trying to measure
Oldtime, you are the best. You remind me of a freind of mine, retired, was a top lawyer, international lawyer, for Mecrk; tells a great story about negotiating a distribution deal with a witch doctor in Haiti.
yeah well, the point is, all my money in the chicken farms is gone first thing, they figured out how to boil the chicken feed and eat it second thing is, they sold off all the chickens, mostly for religious purposes the rest they ate there is your consumption model not a single egg ever got hatched
my mistake was thinking if you could just teach people how capitalism works, then everything else would just take care of itself some people just have simply different values than I have and what I consider to be success, they consider it to be nothing
yeah coming from a goyam like you we know what you do with that pigmeat sausage gravy at Random's house Saturday morning
as you know cornering a market can be very difficult sometimes you have to resort to religious superstition that's why we don't eat hogs we just couldn't corner them but rabbis still trade them
Of course GDP isn't much of a measure. Wealth is a bit like happiness ! The more you look for it the more it eludes one.The USA is wealth obsessed and.. is bankrupt to the tune of 17 trillion. Take Madagascar which was better off before the greedy money grubbers destroyed it's natural and unique heritage of animals and plants. They have bulldozed the jungle and now there are rows of cassava money making plants as far as the eye can see. They ruined a once beautiful island and for what ? Figures in their computerised bank accounts. The sooner people get sensible the better. The Amazon and other jungles are already on the danger list. If the Brazilians for instance had an ounce of good sense they would blast the illegal loggers and their massive machines to kingdom come and good riddance. The only thing preserving the Congo jungles are the idiots are too busy fighting each other. Some people made fortunes supplying guns. Let's hope they destroy themselves sooner rather than later.