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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"Self-sufficiency isn't a sexy idea. At best, people who say they're interested
in being self-sufficient are stereotyped as dour, old-fashioned rural types.
At worst, they're seen as fanatical survivalists planning for an apocalypse.
Economists also tell us that self-sufficiency is an anachronism. Instead, it
is specialization that produces wealth, and economies - including the world
economy - produce the most wealth when everyone, including countries, specializes
in what they do best and then trades their products for the other things they
need. The more specialization, the more connectivity among specialists, and
the more trade along those connections, the better." - Thomas
Homer-Dixon and Sarah Wolfe, ia a recent Globe
and Mail editorial titled "Everything is Not Peachy"
