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I 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 push
by einhverfr 14y ago
I 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.