The software bloat, as in the case of Microsoft Windows 11, deliberately obsoletes your old hardware, which is perfectly operable.Retired engineer Hopeful Humanizer
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The extent to which we see ourselves – consciously or otherwise – as Consumers is a root cause of pretty much every major problem our society faces today.Jon Alexander
First thoughts #1: I am not (just) a Consumer | The New Citizenship Project Blog newcitizenshipproject.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/first-thoughts-1-i-am-not-just-a-consumer/
First thoughts #1: I am not (just) a Consumer | The New Citizenship Project Blog newcitizenshipproject.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/first-thoughts-1-i-am-not-just-a-consumer/
The negative association between materialism and well-being is currently almost an axiom in psychology and consumer researchMaterial and consumer identities – psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-21882-031
The problem is that we do not often see the true ugliness of the consumer economy and so are not compelled to do much about it.
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it.Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
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