bertsmobile1
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Yes over the hill and down the road a full mile in place of everything else that cab be bought today.
I call this problem the "Magic Pudding Syndrome"
Because most people are so far divorced from manufacturing & mining there is the belief that resources are unlimited.
And because there is the belief that "technology" will magically make everything that the most important person in the world, ME , wants , affordable to me so no one will pay for durable quality.
Add to that the " Youth Obsession " where we randomly elevate nobodies to god like status just because they are young & pretty.
So added together you get generations who believe that they have to have a new product every year that costs less.
We have been tanking about adding an enviromential levy on manufactured goods for decades and untill this happens people will believe that the purchase price is the actual cost of an object to the planet.
manufactures are force to make rubbish because rubbish is all the population will pay for.
An interesting statistic that I came across decades ago.
If both China & India used the same amount of toilet paper as the residents of the USA do , per head ( or should that be tail ) of populaton, then they would consume all of the waste paper in the world in less than 6 months then every tree standing in the next 12 months.
Sort of goes to show just how wasteful we really are and I am not USA beating, apparently we down here are just as full of Schitt because the same thing done using OZ as the base only adds a couple of months to the totals above.
I call this problem the "Magic Pudding Syndrome"
Because most people are so far divorced from manufacturing & mining there is the belief that resources are unlimited.
And because there is the belief that "technology" will magically make everything that the most important person in the world, ME , wants , affordable to me so no one will pay for durable quality.
Add to that the " Youth Obsession " where we randomly elevate nobodies to god like status just because they are young & pretty.
So added together you get generations who believe that they have to have a new product every year that costs less.
We have been tanking about adding an enviromential levy on manufactured goods for decades and untill this happens people will believe that the purchase price is the actual cost of an object to the planet.
manufactures are force to make rubbish because rubbish is all the population will pay for.
An interesting statistic that I came across decades ago.
If both China & India used the same amount of toilet paper as the residents of the USA do , per head ( or should that be tail ) of populaton, then they would consume all of the waste paper in the world in less than 6 months then every tree standing in the next 12 months.
Sort of goes to show just how wasteful we really are and I am not USA beating, apparently we down here are just as full of Schitt because the same thing done using OZ as the base only adds a couple of months to the totals above.
