The Story of Stuff

Well, making stuff that breaks keeps people employed in R/D, manufacturing, retail, etc.

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Originally Posted by animegirl

I was very suprised about the concept of making things that don't last so you have to buy new ones

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Surprised? Did you grow up on the moon?

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Originally Posted by PaCrappa

Surprised? Did you grow up on the moon?

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That is where all of the Hydrogen3 is, right?

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Originally Posted by animegirl

I was very suprised about the concept of making things that don't last so you have to buy new ones, that is crazy.

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Someone didn't own an RCA product as a child.

Grrr.

Really Crappy Appliances AMIRITE?

For ten years of research, she talks like someone who just read Naomi Klein and got really angry about it.

I'm actually watching this now, and in the end, when she said that maybe it's too idealistic, I agree with her. Frankly the only way that anything is going to change is when a catastrophic event happens and lots of people die. People typically act only in their self-interest, and only when the threats against one's life are real will there be any mass movement to change the situation.

You know, I'd post a video of Five Iron Frenzy performing Vultures in this thread if it weren't impossible to understand a fucking thing Reese Roper says if it's not in a studio.

Nobody would watch it.