Consumerism - Convince me to not go postal on it.
- Thread starter nietzschefan
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Ya, today the ricoh grunts came to pickup the machines, I decided to ask them what happens to the machines. "Straight to the big chipper". These guys put them in the chipper themselves, they dragged them down the stairs smashing the shit out of them. People are asking me - well jeez they sure don't work anymore AFTER that, wtf are they gonna do with them? I feel like such a dick.
I suppose Ricoh could be destroying the used copiers to keep 'refurbished' machines from diluting the prices of their new ones. Since you bought these new ones yourself, maybe you could sell them to a business for refurbishing the next time you upgrade, or offer them to a start-up business working on a shoestring budget. :shrug:
A little less than 50 years.
We're already there.
There is no goal.
The end goal is pure bliss via the accumulation of 1 trillion trinkets.
So each trinket = 1/1,000,000,000,000 bliss points? Seems like a very devalued currency. What if I start collecting bliss points, then decide that I don't really fancy the idea of pure bliss that much after all, and want something else. Are my bliss points transferable?
It just shows that we have a long way to go. Happiness is not possible until you own one of everything. Or 2 or 3 in the case of SUVs.
Even people without money in America are given 3 hots and a cot on the state's dime. In many cases they are given free healthcare too.
The US doesn't run Honduras so you can't blame things there on the US. The point is Honduras isn't using resources like the US. Many there live off the jungle, don't need money to survive like you do in US, yet their standard of living sucks.
The largest trigger of asthma is cat spit. Are you suggesting we euthanize all cats to effectively deal with pollution?
There is much bad vibe to this thread. In some countries people are starving to death or being killed for religious reasons yet some people have to fuss about what happens when a copy machine they don't own is taken out of the office. Heaven forbid a real problem comes your way.
Complaining is something that humans do very, very well. Especially if they're complaining about something that they're unwilling to do anything about for themselves.
Humans suck!
Baron Max
But not for free. At least not where I live.
Of course you have to work and earn money to survive in the modern environment, but who says you have to work a 9 - 5 office job for some wasteful corporation?
corrected proofs:
My friend destroys the environment in the name of Ricoh, but mostly for his own pleasure.
My friend destroys the environment in the name of Ricoh, but mostly for his own pleasure.