Definitions
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- noun A product which is advertised as being
needed by everybody, or which everyone does in fact need.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word thneed doesn’t appear in any economics text, but it’s symbolic of our modern predicament.
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A thneed is a thing we want but don’t really need.
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Monopolies under-produce, so there will be fewer truffulas destroyed than there would be given a competitive thneed market.
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Has the thneed maker union leadership been heard fromyet?
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If the Oncler owns the Swammy Swans and Fishy fish, then he is free to continue poisoning them, and will stop when the ecconomic value of the birds and fish exced that of thneed production.
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This is true even if they have no non-thneed value.
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Monopolies under-produce, so there will be fewer truffulas destroyed than there would be given a competitive thneed market.
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This is true even if they have no non-thneed value.
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Has the thneed maker union leadership been heard fromyet?
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If the Oncler owns the Swammy Swans and Fishy fish, then he is free to continue poisoning them, and will stop when the ecconomic value of the birds and fish exced that of thneed production.
yarb commented on the word thneed
An arbitrary object of desire, a "fine-thing-that-all-people-need", central to the Dr Seuss story "The Lorax".
October 23, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word thneed
Thneeds are made from truffula trees.
October 23, 2007