Re: [SLUG] operating systems and schools

[Kevin Waterson <kevin@nospam.oceania.net>]

Terry Collins wrote:

>
> 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.

This is why during the 1980's, with concern over the ozone
through gas emissions etc, the economists got on side with the
greens movement and had the GDP,and the economy as a whole,
index linked to the environment, producing the current economic
climate we now live in. This has been termed
"The S**t-house effect"

Kevin

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