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> The economy would collapse and never recover. That is exactly what I said (at my 40-hour/week job) would happen if everyone were like me. More seriously, I'
by eCa 14y ago
> The economy would collapse and never recover.
That is exactly what I said (at my 40-hour/week job) would happen if everyone were like me.
More seriously, I've come to the same conclusion. Our entire society is built on the consumption of junk. Expensive gadgets with a built-in expiration date (either by breaking easily or technology deprecation).
- einhverfr 14y agoI think the key problem is that such consumption isn't sustainable. Sooner or later you run into the fact that we can't keep running on this treadmill and pushing the costs on down. It seems to me that the call to action should be building a new economy, one of free individuals guided by a truly free market, because as the article demonstrates the market is hardly free at the moment.
- scarecrowbob 14y agoIs it possible that, by definition, a "market" has controls on it that make the term "free mark" an oxymoron?
- einhverfr 14y agoI think the question of a free market is a question of who has power in the market. We'd say a communist "marketplace" isn't free because the power is concentrated in the hands of the state, but the same must surely be true in a marketplace run by a non-state monopoly. I would define a marketplace as free if and only if the primary power rests with the purchasers.