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What's the opposite of consumer narcissism?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 05:13:13 AM EST
Survival?

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 05:20:32 AM EST
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My Apple Airbook is really lighter than other notebooks!

:)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 06:37:45 AM EST
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That's only because you haven't put a lot of heavy music on it...

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 09:41:27 AM EST
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I'm not sure there's an opposite for the underlying human drive towards status. Death, perhaps.

However, you could presumably conceive of other ways to feed the status competition that would be more mindful of various resources.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jan 12th, 2009 at 09:24:42 AM EST
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