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Old 23-04-2019, 02:42 PM #1
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Well it's to do with dirty industrialization, not consumer lifestyle, but go off I guess
Do you understand how consumerism works? If no-one spends their money on things, they go away. If people stopped consuming the results of industrialisation, it would shrink and possibly die.
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Do you understand how consumerism works? If no-one spends their money on things, they go away. If people stopped consuming the results of industrialisation, it would shrink and possibly die.
and why are you lecturing me?
I have no problem with industrialisation or consummerism as such, both are essential. We just have to be clever about it, now that technology allows it.
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and why are you lecturing me?
I have no problem with industrialisation or consummerism as such, both are essential. We just have to be clever about it, now that technology allows it.
A three sentence response to something you said is hardly a lecture
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A three sentence response to something you said is hardly a lecture
it is if you teaching me basic concepts
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it is if you teaching me basic concepts
Eh, perhaps. I just wasn't sure if you knew them
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Eh, perhaps. I just wasn't sure if you knew them
I'm touched.
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