"Throw it into the sea.

Throw every year hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of shoes and wheat and clothing and all the commodities of commerce into the sea.

Won't that fix it ?" "It will certainly fix it," Mr.Calvin answered.

"But it is absurd for you to talk that way." Ernest was upon him like a flash.
"Is it a bit more absurd than what you advocate, you machine-breaker, returning to the antediluvian ways of your forefathers?
What do you propose in order to get rid of the surplus?
You would escape the problem of the surplus by not producing any surplus.

And how do you propose to avoid producing a surplus?
By returning to a primitive method of production, so confused and disorderly and irrational, so wasteful and costly, that it will be impossible to produce a surplus." Mr.Calvin swallowed.