On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:52:58 +0000 (UTC), Dylan Smith
wrote:

On 2007-04-13, Don Tabor wrote:
world. If Americans decide to make their sneakers last a few months
longer on average, children go hungry in the third world.

Gosh, I must be a really terrible person then for trying to make things
I own last longer, and buying locally made or grown goods wherever
practical...

I hope not, I do the same thing myself, but everything we do has
consequences.

Those who casually toss off ideas that would bring down the US economy
often see it as part of some zero sum game, that by bringing down the
US, the rest of the world gets a bigger share.

The truth is the complete opposite, a small hurt inflicted on the US
economy, enough to make us delay retiring a year or two, is a
catastrophe to the developing world.

Don