Argh.
So obvious that you're speechless... that production is the engine that consumers rely on.
The post at 312 you didn't respond to, it's important to know if you understood it. Here is the pertinent portions of it with new notes in [brackets].
Producers follow consumer's lead. 309
You used the word "lead" to imply that consumption comes before production. 312 [Also, you used the word "follow" to imply that production comes after consumption.]
Producers decided that consumers should have cameras, cars, telephones, electricity, electric lights, dry cleaners, computers, VCRs, etc. Then they invented them, manufactured them and brought them to market to see if people would pay for their inventions. The producers lead the consumers to buy products and services they had never imagined. 312
A producer who makes stuff people aren't buying won't last very long. 309
True. People are by nature producers, not consumers. For a consumer must produce before they can consume. Production is the engine that drives consumption and the economy. 312