Wednesday, April 05, 2006
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The Rebel Sell:
How is it that we can produce so much more wealth and yet fail to secure any measurable improvement in satisfaction? We constantly hear about how, as a society, we can no longer "afford" health care or public education. But if we can't afford them now, how could we afford them thirty years ago, when the country produced only half as much wealth? Where did all the money go?
... the money is being spent on private consumption of goods. Yet if this pattern of expenditure is not making us happier, why are we doing it? ... Are we just like kids at a birthday party, eating too much cake even though it will give us a tummy-ache later on?
Page 112 of
The Rebel Sell:
Adbusters magazine, for example, has attracted worldwide attention with its campaign to institute an annual Buy Nothing Day. This ignores the fact that, one way or another, your total income gets spent. If you don't spend it, you put it in the bank and someone else spends it. The only way you can reduce consumption is by reducing your contribution to production. Yet somehow an annual Earn Nothing Day doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Re: appoggiatura (the email I just wrote):
Hey Double L,
Because I am not a level two-thousand piano player, I had to use a dictionary to figure out what the subject of your email was about...
I never did buy the new chrome lamp. too big to carry home via Via. :( It would have been the best $30 I'd have spend in a long time thou...
It's great to hear that your interviews are getting better and better! Hurry up and schedule three more while you're on a roll!
Sorry to hear about your parent situation... I guess I'm spoiled that my folks have been able to work through any of their problems, although I bet that will be a disadvantage if I ever end up with a woman who thinks that divorce is an easy way out of a disagreement. Since I have very little real-life "duking it out with the Mrs." experience I'm afraid I would probably end up heartbroken on the curb with .75 of our 1.5 children.
So what's the lure of Tokyo? It's distance or is there something more? Saw some of Lost in Translation last night... I wonder if I would handle a visit to Tokyo as well as Bill Murray did? I'm almost interested enough to fly over for a week just to find out.
Back to the USSR,
JG.
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