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shadowhelm's LJ, because I don't want to be argumentative in someone else's living room, but --
Given a disastrous economy in general, and that you happen to work/want to work for a particular industry, do you really, honestly think it does any good/is right to make a big deal out of pushing people to spend what discretionary money they have on the product of that industry as opposed to anywhere else?
It seems to me that a) it's not going to make that much difference even if all the all the people in that industry do it (there's something of a closed loop going on there, for one thing), and b) it's making a moral issue out of something that shouldn't be moral or at least trying to make people feel guilty if they choose another equally deserving industry to support with their limited dollars. And I don't see why, from a global point of view, it makes any difference whatsoever if you're making a living, or trying to make a living in this industry as opposed to "just" a consumer (gah, I hate that term). AAMOF, IMHO that's demeaning the "just" a consumer.
"Oh, you're not trying to make a living in this industry, you don't get it," doesn't work for me. If I don't get it, explain it in terms I as "just" a consumer (gah) can understand, then. And not by saying, we need to save [whatever] because "it's my industry and it might disappear." Explain it to me in terms that make it more valid to support one industry that might disappear than another which also might and is equally deserving.
Second question is a lot simpler. What's the bleeding difference between a recession and a depression? Aside from matters of degree? If it is just matters of degree, where's the line? How's it measured?
shadowhelm's LJ, because I don't want to be argumentative in someone else's living room, but -- Given a disastrous economy in general, and that you happen to work/want to work for a particular industry, do you really, honestly think it does any good/is right to make a big deal out of pushing people to spend what discretionary money they have on the product of that industry as opposed to anywhere else?
It seems to me that a) it's not going to make that much difference even if all the all the people in that industry do it (there's something of a closed loop going on there, for one thing), and b) it's making a moral issue out of something that shouldn't be moral or at least trying to make people feel guilty if they choose another equally deserving industry to support with their limited dollars. And I don't see why, from a global point of view, it makes any difference whatsoever if you're making a living, or trying to make a living in this industry as opposed to "just" a consumer (gah, I hate that term). AAMOF, IMHO that's demeaning the "just" a consumer.
"Oh, you're not trying to make a living in this industry, you don't get it," doesn't work for me. If I don't get it, explain it in terms I as "just" a consumer (gah) can understand, then. And not by saying, we need to save [whatever] because "it's my industry and it might disappear." Explain it to me in terms that make it more valid to support one industry that might disappear than another which also might and is equally deserving.
Second question is a lot simpler. What's the bleeding difference between a recession and a depression? Aside from matters of degree? If it is just matters of degree, where's the line? How's it measured?
