re: It's time for Bluexit, Conscious Uncoupling

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The stupidity of your premise is that you think those minority counties are self-sufficient. They are far, far from it, by even a facile look.

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The stupid part is that he doesn't realize that no society can build things like iPhones or massive skyscrapers if it isn't eating.

Measuring production in dollar values is useful for many applications.

But if your Society has a high GDP because it sells a lot of cars you can't ignore the fact that the only reason the car gets built is because the people working in the plant don't have to grow their own food or acquire their own energy.