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We Are What We Manufacture
- JBReefer 9y agoThis is one of the most negative articles I've ever read, about something that has produced a truly remarkable standard of living for an ever-growing number of people. Remember when people were proud of making things, and understood that nothing would ever be perfect?
- jlkje2323 9y ago80% of the world lives on ~$2.50/day Meanwhile, we've chewed through trillions of tons of resources, expropriated worker effort for extravagant gain of a minority, likely instigated collapse of stable environmental conditions for later generations. All for what, really? iPhones that help us manage the danglies of the problem: financial economic growth or bust? Did an iPhone cure a disease? Did it literally grow food or invent something new? No, people do those things. And we got them focused on inventing apps inside a walled garden instead of working on the other things. We haven't even gotten basic services accessible to everyone. Look at the PA special election: Healthcare was the reason people switched their vote from R to D. But it sure is great Google/Apple/Facebook and the ones that get through their purity competitions are having a great go of it. There is some serious deflection going on that comment.