12-03-2017, 10:57 PM
Yes. The old certainties that we once thought obvious have often lost their validity. We live in a world much less material than we used to live in, which means that raw labor and raw materials are no longer so precious. Economic competition that once constrained costs has given way to an ethos of getting the customer for everything possible.
We may be at the end of the era in which producing more stuff is the way to get prosperity, at least in the advanced world.
Stone Age > Bronze Age > Iron Age > Age of aluminum and plastics?
We may be at the end of the era in which producing more stuff is the way to get prosperity, at least in the advanced world.
Stone Age > Bronze Age > Iron Age > Age of aluminum and plastics?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.