Consumer Conscience

["Harry Veeder" <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CONSUMER CONSCIENCE.

There is too much social emphasis on being productive,
and too little on being constructive. This is because
modern society tends to asses all growth in terms of raw
production.

Good consumption is a *constructive* activity
in its own right, and without a balance of constructive
and productive activity, economic growth becomes
destructive.

In the Keynesian-Welfare State the consumer is servile to
the paid worker. The good consumer spends sooner rather than later
to provide jobs immediately for the worker.
The good consumer does not waste time at school or using his time
or purchases to enrich his own life, the life of his family or the
life of his community. An unemployed consumer is only entitled
to receive "welfare". This clarifies and affirms the consumers
subservience to the worker.

When we arrive at the poor unemployed consumer we have come to
the bottom of the economic hierarchy. They have no one to kick
below them, so they kick themselves.

Harry Veeder