 What is our role as good consumers? Well, we're supposed to buy stuff. We should amass goods and services We buy what's on offer and the way we find out what's on offer is it's advertised to us and it's advertised all over the place We can compare this in shop, but we shouldn't ask too many questions like is there GMO in my food? Is there this or that not too many questions? Don't go make the goods and services ourselves because they're being made for us and don't share the goods out because that doesn't Buy as much stuff. There won't be as much money in circulation. There won't be as many goods out there But above all else buy a lot or the economy will fail. Our job is actually to keep the economy going If we are good consumers, we should achieve the American dream because the American dream is to have stuff It's an ownership society The gross domestic product will go up so America will be healthy because GDP is our measure of health and The market will sort things out. The market is efficient. It has an invisible hand You may not detect it, but I'm saying all these things with considerable irony because this is sort of the recipe for a Really bad economy and a bad way to be in the world These are the kinds of things we think about in the relationship economy. Thank I'm Jerry McColski Thanks for watching this rec cast. There is more at these links