[LINK] This makes me angry.

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Apr 2 16:19:48 AEST 2012


On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 16:04 +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> > Each of those persons is likely to have or belong to a family unit.
> > If each person is a parent or future parent, that represents (@2.3
> > children per family unit) a total of 924,000 persons that are
> > directly benefiting from the salaries.
> 
> Inaccurate ...

What I thought was very clever was the inclusion of "future parents",
which I suppose means that those future parents' children are included
in the number 924,000. And presumably some of their supported partners
and spouses coming in from the cold. But why stop there? Surely some of
those future parents' children are themselves future parents - and so on
to infinity. My God, the mining industry supports billions! Trillions!

Regards, K.

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