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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Measures of rapid progress and economic growth.
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 13:14:46 EDT
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> At times, I wonder if this "progress" and economic "growth" is being
> measured in terms of overall human and global well-being, or in terms
> of GNP and number of Cuisinarts per square rec room.  ...

A valid point.  But to paraphrase Sturgeon's Law slightly:  "90% of all
progress/growth is crap, but then 90% of *everything* is crap".  I have
some concept of what life was like before progress set in; I have no
desire whatever to return to those conditions.  (For one thing, given the
infant-mortality rate, I probably wouldn't have survived.  For another
thing, given the economic system, I'd probably have ended up as a slave,
in fact if not in name.)
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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