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Years ago, we had to work to produce necessary things. Now we have to produce superfluous junk to keep ourselves working. But this makes no sense when the human race as a whole appears to be using up resources at an unsustainable pace. Has "labour productivity" gone too far?

ANGUS SIBLEY, website http://www.equilibrium-economicum.net, "Querying economic orthodoxy"
by parisien on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 05:02:14 AM EST
Years ago, we had to work to produce necessary things. Now we have to produce superfluous junk to keep ourselves working.

welcome, parisien!

that's about the wryest, aptest summation of the human condition i've enjoyed in a while.

consumerism is simply madness writ large, the most idiotic delusion the species has ever shot itself in the foot with.

foot, magari, more like the frontal cortex!

poor humans gonna have to reboot the whole system. money was such a convenient tool/invention, but as we see now, it is the mother of all two-edged swords. if we're not mature enough to use it with extreme care, then abused, it will cut us to shreds, and it's back to barter.

slow or fast, hard or smooth, this top heavy artifice we call 'society' is going down, and in 5 years will possibly be as unrecognisable as today's would be to a caveman.

<disclaimer> feeling this way since '75! wrong then, probably wrong now, but just can't shake the gut feeling anyway.

playing the blues, playing the blues, it's the only thing that gives me faith to smile through the tears, or cry through the laughter.

oy yes, and  this...

"These days, there's nothing more ridiculous than the truth." Leonard Pitts Jr

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Mar 5th, 2008 at 07:29:05 AM EST
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