Well, there was a clear favorite, but I was delighted that all five answer choices received at least one vote. Here is the tally, represented awkwardly (apologies):
That works out to an average of 0.74, meaning that, on NET, people are between "too tough / I don't know" and "Consumption only, by a little", leaning toward the latter.
I checked the correlations with age and sex, but there was not much action there -- younger people tend to slightly favor production only, but it's a weak relationship. And there is no relationship between people's responses and their sex.
People's explanations for why they chose what they did were very interesting and diverse. I won't try to interpret or synthesize, but you should view the responses here.
I was one of the two who chose "Production only, by far". My brief explanation was that that if you knew that everything you did was ineffectual, then I suspect life would border on unlivable. It would be perfect misery.
A week or month or maybe even a year of consuming whatever you want might be fun, but without the capacity to share those experiences in some way, it sounds like the most nightmarish episode of the Twilight Zone I've ever imagined.
True, only producing is not much dandier, but I think I could still find things worth living for even if it was only writing about my experiences in this hell. I could live knowing that someone might be reading it, and that the message might not be completely ineffectual.
