Originally Posted by
TheDemonLord
One of those I'll entertain: Designed Obselessence is an interesting one - people love to wax lyrical about well-designed machines that lasted a lifetime. How the need to keep producing is a huge economic drain on resources etc.
Especially the Environmental types. What they are curiously silent on is how horrendously inefficient some of those old designs are. It's a curious twist of fate that by designing an appliance to have a finite lifespan, recycling them, it does a good job of making sure that old and power-hungry appliances are removed from circulation.
Yeah, all those Eco-Warriors on their Latest iPhones, drinking at StarBucks, they are soooooooooo anti-consumerism...
(when everyone else does it, but not them, they are good)
Ah, the Racist, Sexist, Misandry of the Left Wing.
Nevermind the fact that most of the people who are supposedly 'in charge' got there by being successful - by doing things that people wanted, by innovating - let's just leave that part out and blame 'the other'
Define 'at the expense of others' - for all it's ills (and there are a metric fuck-tonne) the industrialisation of China (for example) has lifted huge swathes of the population out of a brutal subsistence lifestyle.
I feel the need to repeat that China (and other economies, like India) have massive labor and regulatory issues and I'm not trying to make light of them - the advancement does come at a cost, but it IS advancement - You only have to look back 50-60 years to see when China was starving to death.
Wow.
You care so much about other people that you are willing to Kill them.
Your hatred of Capitalism, your espousing of certain EcoFascist viewpoints, you sound like someone we have all heard of - here, let's see if you recognize who you sound like:
Dick............
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
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