[oceanview]

Yes, but the question is whether an economy can be sustained employing environmentalists and diversity consultants. Sure, demand for those jobs exists, but you have to have an underlying tax base of productive industries so that school teachers and environmentalists can draw from that well. If an economy could magically exist in a vacuum where everyone had jobs like that, I am sure Argentina's people would all declare themselves to be environmentalists.

[Redcloak]

Yes, but the question is whether an economy can be sustained employing environmentalists and diversity consultants.

And that question is answered by the free market; not the crypto-socialists. There's nothing magical about it. If a demand exists, then someone will come along to fill that demand. At no point in the process does a third party's opinion of the importance of the item come into play. You and I might think that an environmentalist industry or a diversity consultant industry is goofy, but that doesn't matter to the loon who wants to pay money for just such a service.