seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.
It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.
Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.
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