Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson
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If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.
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For dealers, it comes down to an issue of economics.
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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.
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Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy.
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It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
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On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.