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The irony: all this mass consumption is not what makes "the globe" very happy.


All the waste from this mass consumption is what makes "the globe" unhappy.

How do we solve the "waste" problem?


Stop making "disposable" stuff that should be durable and reusable.

Stop making appliances out of plastic that break in 5 years, or with cheap components that the average person doesn't know how or have the ability to fix necessitating a electronic board replacement that costs 90% of a brand new unit.


Step 1. Recognize that you can't stop the waste if you don't stop the consumption.

Step 2. Stop the desire to consume by killing ads.


It's not even the ads. How do we fill the emptiness that makes us vulnerable, and creates a need to fill lives with distraction and numbness.

Heroin addicts I'v known, the ones that lived and the ones that didn't, taught me a whole lot more about our current state of technology than I'd ever bargained for.

https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/black-friday




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