As an alternative to luxury taxes, the economist Robert H. Frank proposed the application of a progressive consumption tax.
Thrust specific fuel consumption | Human consumption | Conspicuous Gallantry Cross | conspicuous consumption | Collaborative Consumption | Collaborative consumption | Cannabis consumption | Brake specific fuel consumption |
The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.