Does the trucker who drove it to the store count to contributing to your eating salad? What about the people who picked the lettuce? Did inventions play a part ... so, if you were to guess how many people in total helped you get a salad ... how many would you guess?
2007-07-12 14:26:05 · 7 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the trucker
the mechanic
the farmer
the picker
the foreman at the factory
the guy who designed that guys computer system
the guys at the factory
the store owner
gas station empooyees
the store workers
etc.
as technology continues to advance we become more and more interdependant on one another. in the old days one man could pretty much run his own life. he might need to buy a rifle but that was just one person he had to deal with. today we all use (directly and indirectly) so much technology that we need to rely on other people. Could you program this website? Could you make the electricity work that runs our computers? etc. The lesson is that as technology is used more and more in our lives we become more dependant on each other.
2007-07-12 14:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by xmilestogo 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would say about 20 counting all the posssibilities of possible farmers..ey, want to hear a story about salad?
I went to a beach concert tonight and this woman next to me was walking around, eating an unending salad from a plastic tub for like 30 minutes.
2007-07-12 21:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by London 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Start with all the people that MilesToGo listed. Then add their parents, their parents' parents, and so on. Yeah, you'll end up with many thousands of people.
Next time you're in a bookstore, in the Buddhism section, read the first page of "The Heart of Understanding" by Thich Nhat Hanh. It's very slim reddish paperback.
2007-07-12 21:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by Diana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not eating a salad, but every person that was ever alive contributed to everything, and so did everything else.
2007-07-12 21:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In history, millions if not billions. The fact that I'm sitting here right now is the result of the choices made by the mass of humans who lived before me.
2007-07-12 21:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Myself only. My money paid for the salad. If I didn't pay for it I wouldn't be able to get it and eat it.
2007-07-12 23:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by smallbluepickles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of them. Every person on the earth.
2007-07-13 02:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋