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Originally Posted by Yahoshua
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.
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Another symptom of one and the same state of our culture. It all are symptoms of one and the same crisis.
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Not only that, but corporations are increasingly becoming profit driven.....and to what end?
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It has always been like that. Critically it only becomes when profit craving demands the freedom to grab profits at the costs of vital community structures, that holds commnites together. the lethal competition that seeks monopoles by wiping out rivals, at all cost. Here it adds general power to the immdiate financial profit. Competion must not be bad and can be a motivation (the geography of europe encouraged very strong competition over the cneturies -. the result was the most advanced and intellectually superior civilization mankind has ever seen - but this competition came at a price: oftejn it turned into wars).
Every competition needs to know limitations, like in sports you do not seriously try to kill the opposing team, but simply "ritually" defeat it. That concept is not known in economics. In Germany i see it turning city centres and shopping environments into monocultures. Chain stores dominate. Single sellers become rare.
Hehe, this thread already covers a wide spectrum, doesn't it!?
