10-18-2010, 12:01 AM
Lunoor, you told posters here to chill and laugh more often yet now reveal you were angry when you posted...just pointing that out, that you were not light about things when posting, which I saw at the time and glad to see you saying so, I know its not easy to do that. I still sense you're angry at me, and I hope that changes but either way its fine.
"Wei, It made me angry when you brought up that story about consumers and let the businesses off the hook by saying they wouldn't do it if we didn't buy it."
They wouldn't, because what would be the use of making a product if people didn't pay money for it? I know some hate the whole monetary system, but for those who do, try doing like my friend did and go live in a teepee, its not easy to do and I'd bet you'd miss your home, electricity, store supplied food, and all other comforts. But, that's what it takes to not be a consumer. And each consumer, no matter how hard we all try to avoid it, is supporting the production facilities, technologies and machinery even indirectly that pollute and use up resources, it's just an 'out of sight, out of mind issue' for many people. 100 years ago, our great grandparents most likely had to look their food in the eye before they ate it, now we are very desensitized by comparison, want machines to do things, but machines take energy sources to operate etc.
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"Wei, It made me angry when you brought up that story about consumers and let the businesses off the hook by saying they wouldn't do it if we didn't buy it."
They wouldn't, because what would be the use of making a product if people didn't pay money for it? I know some hate the whole monetary system, but for those who do, try doing like my friend did and go live in a teepee, its not easy to do and I'd bet you'd miss your home, electricity, store supplied food, and all other comforts. But, that's what it takes to not be a consumer. And each consumer, no matter how hard we all try to avoid it, is supporting the production facilities, technologies and machinery even indirectly that pollute and use up resources, it's just an 'out of sight, out of mind issue' for many people. 100 years ago, our great grandparents most likely had to look their food in the eye before they ate it, now we are very desensitized by comparison, want machines to do things, but machines take energy sources to operate etc.
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