"Affluence tomorrow involves sacrifices today?"?

Question

Incorporating the PPF's elucidate on the statement.

Answer 1

Well, I did a lot of sacrifices ... I am almost 46 years old and ... I still don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. And your point is?

Answer 2

The PPF is a dead giveaway. This question involves tradeoffs between Kapital goods and Consumption goods.

Think of the classical guns and butter problem:

We don't have any butter, but I ask you.
Which would you rather produce, guns or butter?
Guns make us strong.
Butter merely makes us fat.
Guns?
Butter?