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The customer is always useful. (Score:1)

by educated_foo (3106)

Well, in a natural ecosystem everyone (or every gene) is just trying to survive long enough to reproduce a lot. Why do we start decaying at 30? Because we're past our reproductive years at that point, and therefore useless. On the other hand, in an economic system, whoever dies with the most toys wins, so there's no such thing as "enough money."
As an aside, I think this touches on the biggest mistake people make about large-scale, first-world markets: that they are driven by some sort of diverse consum
- Re:The customer is always useful. (Score:1)
  
  by Ron Savage (5224) on 2007.07.08 5:40 (#56055) Journal
  
  > so there's no such thing as "enough money."
  
  Yes. This has been spelled out in the fascinating book:
  Adam's Curse
  Bryan Sykes
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    by educated_foo (3106)
    
    Thanks for the reference. I will give it a read.

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