March 2011
4 posts
Consumerism and Material Goods →
A striking conclusion to a Wired article about the Foxconn suicides:
Every last trifle we touch and consume, right down to the paper on which this magazine is printed or the screen on which it’s displayed, is not only ephemeral but in a real sense irreplaceable. Every consumer good has a cost not borne out by its price but instead falsely bolstered by a vanishing resource economy. We...
