Perhaps what is more disturbing as a root cause of this is the fact that we are increasingly (Europeans and Americans alike) are becoming a throwaway society.
We use something until it doesn't work, and then we throw it away and get a new one to replace it. Most people don't even bother fixing things themselves.
When a person is unusable, we throw them to the old peoples home. Same concept, and it's becoming more and more ingrained in our society.
Not only that, but corporations are increasingly becoming profit driven.....and to what end?
What is possibly gained from making more profits than you need? Aside from saving up for a rainy day or engaging in risky scientific adventures, all that money is going into the pockets of the selfish. When it really belongs in the circulation of the national economy where there will be less chance for poverty to take hold.
I suppose we could begin by instituting the Jubilee law every 50 years.
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Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua
  
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