Irrelevant. The two must meet or nothing happens - period. Both must exist or neither is relevant - period. You can gainsay it all you want; but, that is the essential fact.
A consumer will always exist a product has to made or harvested first.
"""Irrelevant. The two must meet or nothing happens - period. Both must exist or neither is relevant - period. You can gainsay it all you want; but, that is the essential fact."""
Again you are confusing what I am saying. I never said you can have one without the other. The point is that the consumer is the one that the producer needs to separate the money from. The consumer dicides if he/she is willing to buy said item. The comsumer is the one who puts the money into the economy only after buying a product.
My point is IMO that the consumer does more to improve the economy by spending money, then a producer does by just making a product. Remember a consumer is really another word for a person that will buy a product. A consumer may not be able to be called a consumer if he doesn't buy a product but he still has the money that the economy needs. The product doesn't do anything for the economy unless some gives someone else(another consumer)money.