I took this picture while ‘dumping’ some old electrical goods from my partner house. This sight of all this discarded ‘waste’ brings home to us just how much we throw away. Stuff is too cheap to fix and quickly becomes obsolete – through look or design. We must have the newest thing. The land fills get fuller, carbon emissions rise and we go on pretend we live a free and fulfilling life. I think it’s us that’s being wasted.
True. But I have just seen the film “The Lives of Others” about the Stasi in East Germany. What a depressing place it was and what a crap car the Trabant was. Also their furnishings were vile. If you don’t progress design and innovation, that is what your world quickly looks like. It’s a conundrum. There is no simple answer.
Great goods take more time and energy to make and so cost more. How many people went to tailors for hand-made suits 50 years ago? Even penniless Mods did. People will always want the best they can afford. I suspect it is human nature.
We just need a better balance – but as the book tries to describe; markets dont do balance
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