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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
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Meaning of “unlike a shark”
meaning of “unlike a shark”
The passage below comes from the website as follows.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&p=6
The difference today is that intergenerational transfers take a more collective form – income tax on all productive people in their prime pays for education for all, for example. In that sense, the economy (like a chain letter, but unlike a shark, actually) must keep moving forward or it collapses. The banking system makes it possible for people to borrow and consume when they are young and to save and lend when they are old, smoothing their family living standards over the decades.
In that passage, I have a question about the underlined part, “unlike a shark.”
I know what “unlike a shark” means in literal sense, but I don’t understand what “unlike a shark” means in this context.
Can you tell me what it is?
Thanks in advance.
The passage below comes from the website as follows.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&p=6
The difference today is that intergenerational transfers take a more collective form – income tax on all productive people in their prime pays for education for all, for example. In that sense, the economy (like a chain letter, but unlike a shark, actually) must keep moving forward or it collapses. The banking system makes it possible for people to borrow and consume when they are young and to save and lend when they are old, smoothing their family living standards over the decades.
In that passage, I have a question about the underlined part, “unlike a shark.”
I know what “unlike a shark” means in literal sense, but I don’t understand what “unlike a shark” means in this context.
Can you tell me what it is?
Thanks in advance.
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Can you tell me what it is? Sharks reputedly must keep moving throughout their lives in order to force enough water through their gills to supply adequate oxygen to their systems. However, I fail to understand the remark in that passage, since it goes on to say that the economy must also keep moving or it dies.
- Can you tell me what it is?
- Sharks reputedly must keep moving throughout their lives in order to force enough water through their gills to supply adequate oxygen to their systems.
- However, I fail to understand the remark in that passage, since it goes on to say that the economy must also keep moving or it dies.
- Unless someone can explain the difference to me, I would change the excerpt to read ' like a chain letter or like a shark '.
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Stenka25 I don’t understand what “unlike a shark” means in this context.Can you tell me what it is?Sharks reputedly must keep moving throughout their lives in order to force enough water through their gills to supply adequate oxygen to their systems.
However, I fail to understand the remark in that passage, since it goes on to say that the economy mu
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