Consumption and consumer spending don’t grow economies

Jonathan Garner
3 min readFeb 4, 2022
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You may have heard that consumer spending drives most of the economy. I want to suggest that this idea is nonsense.

Philosophy of consumption

You cannot consume what you do not produce; you cannot give what you do not have. If everyone was consuming, then nobody would be producing. If nobody is producing, then there are no products to consume…

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Jonathan Garner

Finance/Investing/Economics/Philosophy/Religion blogger. I’m also a Philosophy of Religion blogger:https://jonathandavidgarner.wordpress.com/