Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Alexander Else wrote:
> 
> At 00:57 02/02/2000 +1100, Aussie wrote:
> > * Loss of income due to auto car spontaneously crashing every 5km.
> >$750,000
> 
> This would be a case where the gain outweighs the cost.  You are the only
> one to have provided such a scenario.

Speaking of car crashes, is anyone else hear old enough to remember
when the economists measured our standard of living by the gross
domestic product (GDP)?

Until someone pointed out that the GDP included the cost of all those
car crashes, repairs, cost of ambulances, hospitals and emergency
services personnell, so it was kind of hard to argue that and
increasing GDP meant that our standard of living was going up.
>
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