Thank you Tom Robbins

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During periods of so-called economic depression, societies suffer for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably discloses that there are plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What is missing is not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It is akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she can't bake a cake because she doesn't have any ounces. She has butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just doesn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints.

--Tom Robbins, skinny legs and all

(Thanks also to interactiveleaf for reminding me about this quote :)

Comments

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Thank *you* for remembering the source and digging it up. I had mis-attributed it to RAW.

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I was actually re-reading _Skinny Legs_ a few weeks ago and came across the paragraph & went "WOW!" :)

It probably would not have stood out as much to me if I hadn't heard you say it so recently ;)