AllConsuming.org.uk

Sadly the papers are packed with consumer lunacy today.  Not least the Tim Dowling piece in G2 on Firefly – the new mobile phone for four years olds. Tim describes the lunacy well. Also in the Guardian (which is really the only paper I consume and which I love, but amuses me with its readers offers for things like gilded bird cages) was a splash on the return of the pay gravy train in the City.   Finally there is a story about the the threat to sharks because of over fishing.  Often its just the fins that are wanted and the bodies are dumped back in the sea.  Shark fin soup has moved like every other consumer good from an elite to an afforadbale must have. There is a deep irony here.  In the book I describe the market as a shark; a monster that has no morality but just endlessly feeds.  The shark has met its match.

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